Posted on 08/17/2014 10:07:37 AM PDT by Duke C.
THE ECONOMIST has analysed 190,000 profiles of female sex workers on websites where customers post reviews. The data cover 84 cities in 12 countries, with the biggest number of workers in America and most of the rest in big cities in rich countries. According to our analysis, the price of an hour of sex with a female prostitute has been dropping fairly steadily in recent years. In 2006 the average cost was around $340. By 2014 it had dropped to about $260.
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Those are all legit. [snort]
Eww! And said lonely guy would go home with all sorts of new friends —most of them microscopic.
Tom Cruise? Looks like the little fairy that he is, in this woman’s opinion. Besides, most women over the age of 20 are over the looks business. If a man is neat and clean and has a good attitude that counts for more than looks. It is men who are more concerned with the looks of a potential mate.
I had above average looks when I was single, and most of the men I went out with were not that good looking. Did not matter.
Not that I have any personal experience to verify my statement, but isn't that more like 15 minutes of sex and 45 minutes of getting to it?
#2 I used Tom Cruise. As a red-blooded, heterosexual American male, I may not be up on what is 'hot' now. Maybe I should have said Channing Tatum? Either way, I am sure that should Tom Cruise desire a woman, he would have little trouble procuring same.
#3 I do know men that are not exactly in Wilt Chamberlain class. Men that have not (probably) scored in decades. They don't exactly broadcast the fact. Looks are a part of it. Attitude. Economic circumstances certainly. And, oh yeah, hygiene. Now, one could work on some (or all) of these, and probably should. Or, on a lonlely Saturday night, he could plunk down a couple hundred bucks.
Now, I am not condoning any of this. But you said that men are the one's concerned with looks. Even with a great deal of effort, there is only so high some guys will be able to reach. $250 bucks overcomes that, even for only 40 minutes.
I would agree with your comments. Life is not as cut and dried, black and white as most of us were raised to believe, or at least to act as though we believed it.
The Compound Verb of The Day is: “Wack-A-Mole”
A large part of prostitution is never talked about, because neither the prostitutes or their clients are arrested. It can best be called “middle class prostitution”.
Typically it starts with a younger, divorced woman without children, who has a mortgaged home she cannot afford as part of the divorce settlement, and little possibility of gainful employment better than minimum wage.
She has anywhere from four to eight clients, often who are divorced themselves, but are men of some means. And neither she nor they want to get married again.
She very carefully schedules them so there are no conflicts, and often provides other entertainments, like a good dinner and conversation, as part of the deal. She may also act as an escort to public functions.
In return, each of the men give her some part of the legal exclusion of taxable money gifts for the year, which can be as much as $14,000 per customer, though seldom rises to that level, of course.
Yeh but now they get Obamacare.
I have no idea who Channing Tatum is. An actor, I suppose.
But, anyway, eww, still.
If these poor lonely guys you speak of would put a little effort into romancing a lady — a real lady and not some phony tramp — perhaps they would not be in such a predicament.
Seriously, before I met my wonderful husband, I met some of the Mr. Lonely types, so I know whereof I speak.
The recent bestseller Superfreakonomics had a chapter devoted to the economics of prostitution. A very interested read. The authors studied urban streetwalkers (who actually make more money using a pimp than not) and more professional escorts of the type you described. It's crazy how much money these women can make. A half million a year easily --and with little fear of ever getting busted or assaulted.
I often wonder with the throngs of young women lining up to enter the porn industry (because they claim to need the money for college) that they don't just go work as escorts. They can make at least twice as much money having sex and don't ever have to worry about their friends, family, future children, spouses, employers, etc. finding their photos and the 'net. And when they want to quit, they quit and there's no recorded history of them ever being involved in the dirty, shameful business of selling their bodies for sex.
Go figure...
They may imagine its discrete, but these things have a way of getting out. No one wants to marry a hooker.
The porn thing is a head scratcher. Yeah, there seem to be lots of young women willing to do it. At the end of the day, it must be a combination of the $$ and the delusion that they are legitimate actresses or models. It’s a really foolish choice though. I really can’t see how someone can have a normal life and/or career with their sexcapades floating around on the Internet.
I'm stealing that line. :)
That’s fine with me - it’s an old one. Sorry, I have no idea who first used it.
And it's cheaper than buying them a house.
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