Just a thought as I was brushing my teeth tonight and wishing I'd started this earlier in life. Wonder what everyone thinks. Can exchange daughter for best friend/ any significant other but I think ' daughter' (actual or theoretical) is the key one..

I agree with Friday, in the sense that I wouldn't 'recommend' ANY line of work to anybody else since I have no right to try and influence another adult's choices, and would hope that they could make an informed decision themselves about how they want to earn a living. I wouldn't recommend them being a bus driver either - that doesn't mean I don't think it's a perfectly valid job to do for anybody who fancies it.

I would support whatever decision they made; provided whichever daughter/friend it was was working responsibly and safely, I would be happy she was earning a good living doing a relatively easy job - I spent my late teens and twenties working myself into the ground for pence, having to put up with awful hours and conditions, horrible people and desperate rates of pay (this was before the minimum wage, for those old enough to remember) and I often had two or three jobs on the go at a time. I missed out on a hell of a lot as a result and had the amount of information and support available to people starting off now been there then, I wouldn't have hesitated to start a good ten years before I did.

Recommend? No!

A parent's place in their offspring's sex life is where they want it to be (usually far away, unlistened to) not suggesting they shag strangers for cash. Even without that, what they are happy with in terms of the effort vs the risks vs the rewards of any work are unlikely to be the same as yours.

Support if it were her decision? Of course, I think it'd be hypocritical to do anything else.

I would try to keep the Four Yorkshiremen sketch to a minimum though. "When I started, there were no mobiles or web, and you had the choice between street or agency work and the owner expected a blow job beforehand and you thought yourself lucky to do it..."

Also i would NEVER even let my daughter know about escorting as i feel what i have done should not have a impact on her life and lead her in a direction she would never of known about .I want her to make her own choices ......it is hard to put in words i dont want her to think it is ok and a choice for her as in easy money. I have worked since 18 when you made loads of money (for doing comparitively little compared with today) but i also missed out on lots of  normal things as well ......as you had to sit there all day in a flat or sauna answering your phone (no mobiles or internet ) i made money but it could be lonely and then used to go out to compensate and spend to much ;-(  so i never realised the worth of it  (money) till later on in life . This is the only buissness where the money earnt has gone down over the years ;-(  and is worth less to boot to ....................so starting out later keeps you grounded also . I would never encourage  anyone  to work ever But if if they make their mind up independently and were determined  to do it i would help them all i could .
I have never regreted working but know lots people who have.
I also have to admit my views are based (grew from) on my first interview at a brothel the man took one look at me said i looked to young and he would never start anyone off in this line of work i was really shocked the next few places i went to either belonged to him or his friend and got a resounding no as well . I met  a working girl there  (the last time )who took me out after her shift finished for a drink and the boss sacked her.........i ended up starting a year later when i eventually met somone who he didnt know(the girl he sacked got me the job ) but i understand now what he meant.  
sorry if that was a bit of a essay ;-p

I agre with lady lust I would not recommend any one under the age of about 40 to start escoriting, I escort and I'm 25 years old, I'm a student unmarried no children but I would really like all of those things some day and since I have started escorting I see that going further and further away from me!!!
My view on men has changed completely Ive never had trust issues with men even with all the rubbish I have been through in my personal life and now I find that any men who approach me (personally) I get put off the very easily, if they do or say something i don't like or agree with I cut all ties and alot of men who approach me don't even get far enough to do something to put me off as 99% of the time I turn them down flat!
I quite if find it hard to change from dionne back to myself sometimes as well I'm hoping that once I finish studying and quit escorting I'll be able to shake of the mentality that all men are perverts that think with their wieners but at the moment that's exactly how I think :-(

thank you for replies.  this is so interesting;   a resounding 'no'.   This is also my gut instinct and please don't get me wrong, I am not about to push my daughter (i have 5 of them - 2 over 18) into this line of work.  Also I would obviously support anyone who did choose it - the whole point of this forum!  There is no way for my girls at the moment; it would not suit them.... but.... i just wonder about why, because it has been so liberating for me since I began a few months ago.

I know of so many girls, myself included, who have been in abusive and destructive relationships (often living in poverty)  I think about what i  have put up with for free - sexually and emotionally. .  and I see other young girls doing the same.  I'm not a man hater - just glad that tables are turned.  Nearly every client I've met so far has been a pleasure.  I am actually enjoying most of the sex and social interaction and I am loving saying'bye now and thanks for the cash.... so glad we didn't have any emotional involvement as I like to save that for my family and friends.' - obvs I don't actually say that - probably wouldn't go down well.

I do take on board point by Lady Lust and I agree (although its difficult to pinpoint an age), there is a time when you are ready.  Straight after puberty and into the 20's is definitely not that time for most people (apologies to the amazingly mature 20 year olds who post on here - I wish i'd had your insight).  The passion of first loves at that age can be pure and strong.  Shame to miss out on that.  Sometimes you meet old folk who met at 16 and have stayed together happily but I look around at my women friends and I just see so many of them struggling in rubbish relationships.  Obviously not having to rely on men at all and being able to support ones kids alone would be the ideal..however,  I guess I'm in the throws of being a new escort (at an old age) and loving it so much i want to tell the world!!  (lol!! as they say)

I agree with what everyone else as said and it would be a defo NO.
Cat x

I had the same sort of dilemma with my younger sister, she is 19 and has struggled to get a job since leaving school when she got one her boss was a pervert resulting in her knocking him back and when the redundancies came she was top of the list. She doesn't know what I do and said she has thought about becoming an escort herself to me but I played it down massively with talk od bad clients and money not always being good etc etc 'Not that I knew what I was talking about'  Fact is I started escorting at 20 but this was of my own accord I had a very good very well paid job within the financial industry and just got bored of everyday life so fancied a change, no one talked me into it or gave me any advice or recommendations beforehand I just did it, what worries me is that I chose this lifestyle I do not want her to copy me and if godforbid anything happened to her I would blame myself...I have considered recommending webcam work to her but again she needs to make her own decisions in life and I do not want to be responsible for influencing anyone