I love all this crap about we are 'coereced' into it (that's the poor sods who are trafficked, not us) or that we only do it cos we are drug addicts (yeah right, I don't touch never would touch and never have touched drugs)!

'Would not go into prosititutiion outside of her own volition' - ha ha!! PMSL! What?! Yeah, cos that's the only acceptable reason, yeah? To be forced - oh god, get over yourself, please.

Maybe if men stepped up to be what they r supposed to be as men, we women wouldn't be in this position?

And also an interesting point, how many men would be willing to consider going out and being prostitutes to ensure that their kids had what they needed? Absolutely none I should think.

I imagine, jackman, you have opened a can of worms u didn't expect.....

We aren't 'forced' into it and as per what I said in my post, you want to look at the real reasons most women get into it. We have children to provide for. End of. It's a job. End of.

Some need it for college, many of us need it to pay our monthly bills and keep a roof over the most precious things in the world  -  our children.

Well said Bannamuffin!!!!  And Emily too!

Well said Emily! 

On the other hand, what about those women that marry a man purely for his money?  Why not do research on them?  Oh, maybe they are also coerced into it! 

I also get vexed with this stereotyping of us.  Assuming we are doing it for various reasons and assuming we are co-erced into it. 

We have our own reasons and why the hell should we divulge that to the whole world?  It's our business and nobody else's.  We do a job, like everyone else. We provide a service, a very therapeutic one!  It keeps the world going round and it's, as the saying often says, the oldest profession in the world. 

Jenny

I totally agree emily!when its the truth its just not juicy enough!there always has to be some huge reason..
well heres a reason:there is usually no interview,or qualifications on paper needed to start escorting(if independent)if there were high executive jobs,with no interview or qualifications needed with OK pay,then people would do that also DUH!
So this man really, already knows the ansew to his own question..
So you dont need anyones help "DO YOU?"A JOB IS A JOB!!!
 

It does make me wonder......if  you were just going to stick with your preconceptions and not take any note of our considered responses, and precisely because our responses didnt fit in with these preconceptions,  ignore them, why bother asking us in the first place?

If you want to do something different you won't do it by ignoring the reality. You can go anywhere online and find what you want, but that will just be the same tired old unoriginal rubbish churned out by most of the media. 

Thank you Jack. I haven't posted on this thread because your brief doesn't apply to me but since that hasn't stopped anybody else, can I ask whether it had occurred to any of the members posting that at least some (and probably most) of the media enquiries in this section are posted by people who have been handed them by somebody else who is not here in order that they earn their next pay packet?

No doubt they are then sent off and told to get on and write an article/make a programme about Prossie Stereotype X by Sunday week, and get as much salacious/headline grabbing stuff in as possible etc etc - what on earth is supposed to be achieved by trying to tell them what they should be doing when they have no more control over what their employers ask them to do than anybody else in civvy street? We're the ones who are self employed and answerable to no one, and not everybody has that luxury. If they're not going to ask here, where should they ask? Do we want them ringing us up and mithering us in person? Having had the odd spate of this after I've had occasional things published in the past, I know I don't.

I'm as guilty of it as anybody else to some extent in the past at least, but I'm getting increasingly sick of every single thread that's ever posted in this section turning into the same old identikit drum-banging rant about how misunderstood we all are - I can practically recite it verbatim. I appreciate that we have a regular influx of new members for whom it is all new and interesting, but the fact is that there are ladies posting here who are working as prostitutes as a means to a definite end and probably a good few more reading - why shouldn't they have the chance to talk about their success and ambitions if they want to? I can't see any of them wanting to post in the thread now, but maybe they will get in touch (and I do hope Jack's employers are familiar with our hourly rates and the budget can stand it - our time doesn't come cheap after all). On every other section of this forum we ask members to ignore threads that annoy them or they have no interest in, and this one should be no different, although I should say that I certainly am not disagreeing with what has been said - far from it.

Jack, provided you don't expect anybody to spend their time speaking to you for free, hopefully you'll have a bit more luck via email. I don't have any higher hopes for whatever it is you're putting together than the rest of the dreck we see every day, particularly once the editors get their hands on it and render anything even remotely sensible or realistic into a shadow of it's former self, but your patience and courtesy at least is much appreciated. I will look forward to your piece and it's companions where you talk to people who are cleaning offices, doing bar work or driving taxis in order to save up money for some future endeavour, because naturally they be will following shortly afterwards.

And thank you too Mellow - I don't think anybody was majorly ranting, to be fair - I've just seen it all so many times before I'm getting fed up of reading it, but that's neither here nor there.

My concern is that I don't want anybody who might like to talk anonymously about how they're going to learn to make pots or start their own engineering firm, or open a B&B, or get a PHD in contemporary Tuareg to feel like they daren't say so because everybody will think they're letting the side down by pandering to the evil journos. And I do know ladies who have big plans, their stories are interesting and I don't think any demonstration of how ingenious, resourceful and determined some of us can be given the opportunity does any harm.

its said that these discussions,have been wrote about over and over again..so why they not take note and listen..its not us who should change record..Its them thats the point..