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« Reply #750 on: 09 April 2020, 11:40:34 pm »
There is an article on the Guardian today regarding this issue, manufacturing industries will open first, then health practitioners, lastly the entertainment industry. I'm not sure which sector we belong to :-)

We manufacture orgasms?  ;D

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« Reply #751 on: 10 April 2020, 01:16:39 am »
I'm unsure why so much of the focus seems to be on AW when (as already posted) they provide a platform for all sorts of non-contact services so that people who want to can try them if they don't offer them already. A brief look through my other ads on directories which are pretty much prossie only shows that they're all still up and running with no particular changes, and Vivastreet seem to be up to some bizarre cobblers as usual judging by their thread.

I'm waiting to see when the hairdressers and gyms and so on reopen. I'm seriously relieved that the week the Sunday Sport have apparently decided to publish my number without my knowledge or permission is one where my phone is switched off, mind.

Poor Amy. How did they manage to do that? Hope you have another work phone.

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« Reply #752 on: 10 April 2020, 10:39:19 am »
We manufacture orgasms?  ;D

That's not going to fly  ;D
Mornings were made for sleeping, wild sex and bacon.

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« Reply #753 on: 10 April 2020, 12:21:53 pm »
We manufacture orgasms?  ;D

I mean...we do, but I've heard it all now... ;D

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« Reply #754 on: 10 April 2020, 02:01:30 pm »
We are sexual mental health workers that keep sexless marriages together so we are very important and we must return to our very important jobs very very soon. ;D

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« Reply #755 on: 10 April 2020, 04:56:06 pm »
We are sexual mental health workers that keep sexless marriages together so we are very important and we must return to our very important jobs very very soon. ;D
I love this  :D
What a wonderful job description! Haha!

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« Reply #756 on: 10 April 2020, 04:58:45 pm »
Clap for sex workers haha.

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« Reply #757 on: 10 April 2020, 07:04:54 pm »
I would hate to think what some guys would do if escorts did not or could not exist. Many women would be forced to please men, More strained relationships and tension due to a partner having a low sex drive or due to menopause or something physical. Many guys I see have partners they care for but due to physical problems or illness sex is not possible. I actually had a guy come to me because his wife had MS and she actually picked me out for him. I wonder if off in the far future escorting will be legalised, I think it's so out if date now for it to be a taboo. Sex is not a bad thing between consenting adults. Cigarettes and alcohol are much worse habits for society.

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« Reply #758 on: 10 April 2020, 07:12:39 pm »
We are sexual mental health workers that keep sexless marriages together so we are very important and we must return to our very important jobs very very soon. ;D

Totally agree TT!

I also feel this way for single guys who see us. Some of them are very social awkward or haven’t a clue. I have a few regular single clients who although are very lovely and great guys who just haven’t got a clue what to do with women in general. Also a few are sadly on the wrong side of good looking and I know they gain great benefit from regular bookings and female intimacy even on the paid level.

I keep in touch with several regulars and most of them are starting to feel the pinch of being alone especially those without family or a social circle.

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« Reply #759 on: 10 April 2020, 07:22:47 pm »

I keep in touch with several regulars and most of them are starting to feel the pinch of being alone especially those without family or a social circle.

Funny you should say this I've had similar with a reg today x

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« Reply #760 on: 10 April 2020, 07:57:37 pm »
To be honest with
I would hate to think what some guys would do if escorts did not or could not exist. Many women would be forced to please men

I worry about some of this too. DV cases are already on a high and as I understand it femicide stats are already double in this period than what they are normally.  I've been feeling sorry for myself because I can't earn money or go to the gym/pub but then I think about all this miserable marriages at best, and dangerous/rapey marriages at worse, and remember how bloody lucky I am comparably right now to be footloose and fancy free, to dredge up an old adage. Not that I necessarily think the lack of access to prostitutes makes this worse, so much as the being hemmed in and isolated and less access to social services etc
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« Reply #761 on: 10 April 2020, 08:23:12 pm »
To be honest with
I worry about some of this too. DV cases are already on a high and as I understand it femicide stats are already double in this period than what they are normally.  I've been feeling sorry for myself because I can't earn money or go to the gym/pub but then I think about all this miserable marriages at best, and dangerous/rapey marriages at worse, and remember how bloody lucky I am comparably right now to be footloose and fancy free, to dredge up an old adage. Not that I necessarily think the lack of access to prostitutes makes this worse, so much as the being hemmed in and isolated and less access to social services etc

I totally agree on the DV, Also anxiety and depression and stress will be higher too. And these things can amplify violence and other harmful habits. I spent many years isolated and at home 6 days a week due to caring for a mentally ill family member and my mental health suffered.

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« Reply #762 on: 10 April 2020, 08:28:10 pm »
I think we're on extremely thin ice with the suggestion that punters are more likely to abuse women than non-punters; the abolitionist lobby have been trotting that old 'rapists with an outlet' shit out for years. Some punters will be abusive, and so will some cyclists, gamers, birdwatchers and people with all sorts of other ideas about how they spend their free time, and this idea that men are basically no better than farm animals and unable to control their behaviour really needs dissolving every time it comes up - it demeans us all as well as excusing the real arseholes.

If I had a single regular who I suspected would be an abuser (and I realise they're not that easy to spot), he wouldn't be seeing me again. I have no doubt that I've come across a few in the last twenty or so years, but if I spent my days in any job where most of the people I met were men I would expect the proportions to be about the same.

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« Reply #763 on: 10 April 2020, 08:57:26 pm »
I think we're on extremely thin ice with the suggestion that punters are more likely to abuse women than non-punters; the abolitionist lobby have been trotting that old 'rapists with an outlet' shit out for years. Some punters will be abusive, and so will some cyclists, gamers, birdwatchers and people with all sorts of other ideas about how they spend their free time, and this idea that men are basically no better than farm animals and unable to control their behaviour really needs dissolving every time it comes up - it demeans us all as well as excusing the real arseholes.

If I had a single regular who I suspected would be an abuser (and I realise they're not that easy to spot), he wouldn't be seeing me again. I have no doubt that I've come across a few in the last twenty or so years, but if I spent my days in any job where most of the people I met were men I would expect the proportions to be about the same.

I agree that there is no reason to believe punters are any more likely to be rapists than any other kind of man (and that was the general tenor and direction of my point). However I've heard that implication put out there on both sounds of that irritatingly divisive political conversation; those who say prostitution must end because punters are all rapists and those who may prostitution must flourish to prevent other women being raped.

As I say, I think women being pressured into sex and other abuses is a current heightened problem now and as I say, I think this has much more to do with being isolated and in lockdown than it is to do with lack of access to commercial sex (given as there still seems to be quite a number of women still offering services in any case).

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« Reply #764 on: 10 April 2020, 09:22:40 pm »
Oh I have no doubt at all that the above is true (and just to temporarily derail further in case anybody reading finds it helpful, train companies are currently offering free travel for anyone fleeing domestic violence - there are details on the Women's Aid site), but like you, I'm not seeing the sex work link.