Don't really get the problem with that one - I do offer student discounts. Why? Because I'm running a business, and I'm based in a student town, <snip!> Obviously if people ask for discounts you don't offer it's cheeky but if they've seen that some escorts do offer it you can't blame them for trying.
Offering discounts to enter my pussy? Sacrilege...
I don't think prostitution can ever be equated with any other business. I think it's downright rude of men to ask and I would hate to see it evolve into a trend where students, soldiers, elders and other "disadvantaged" market groups would expect to pay less for sex than anyone else.
We're already in a situation where a lot of clients expect OWO, CIM and A - levels, something they didn't really do 10-15 years ago. Why continue these trends of compliance to men's demands by voluntarily slashing our fees?
No one should 'expect' to pay less, but offering a discount is good business and it makes me more money overall. All I'm saying is if some escorts offer those types of discounts (which plenty do - like I said I offer student discounts, and I've seen at least one website offering armed forces discount) there's nothing wrong with clients enquiring to see if the same is available elsewhere as long as they take no for an answer.
If you think it's "sacrilege" to offer discounts, that's your choice. The fun part about being independent is you get to define your own prices, your own boundaries etc. But we're not all the same. I DO see my work as being the same as any other business - it's not intimate to me, it's manual labour crossed with performing arts crossed with customer service. I earn more when I do short term cut price special offers than I do at my full rates. I earn more when the students are in town and taking advantage of my student discount (which, by the way, is ?5-?10 off most booking lengths and doesn't apply to quickies - it's not like I'm giving it away!).
It's not about 'complience' to men's demands, it's about smart marketing. Those services you listed? I don't do any of them. I've cut down a lot of my services since I started escorting because I didn't enjoy them and realised I shouldn't have to do things I don't like just to make money. My screening standards are rediculously high, turning down approx 70% of the men who contact me. We all find the ways of working that we are happiest with that make us the most money - for some that's offering extra services, for some it's specialising in something unsual, for some it's being cheap.
When prostitutes get all in a huff about how 'intimate' and 'unique' and 'personal' our work is I can't help but worry that they're going to struggle, long term, with the fact they've had sex with often hundreds of men. I mean, I've shagged 500+ people and I've been working less than two years. That's not intimacy, and it's not personal (and charging ?300 an hour won't magically make it intimate either, it's still fucking for cash). When you make something about getting paid it becomes business, and whether you like to think of it that way or not is very much your problem not mine.