Maybe they are having a mass clean up of fake profiles on there.Loads of us are genuine,just because we dont want to show our faces or verifiy,doesnt mean to say we are not genuine.It is alot of pressure for us girls.
I agree that AW already puts a lot of pressure on their users to do certain, unsafe things (i.e. sending passport details to a totally unknown place/person) and it's almost as though - shock, horror - they don't care so much about the risks and annoyances of being an actual sex worker, so much as they care about making their bloody massive profits.
Sorry - I'm always going on about that, I know! And just because Adultwork doesn't have our best interests at heart doesn't mean I don't use it for what I can, but like NubianTemptress said, it's absolutely
not a good idea to rely on AW 100%. Even if only because sometimes their site crashes/is down for maintenance/etc - think of the massive amounts of traffic they get, it's not surprising!
Like NT suggested, now might well be a good time to work on getting your own website sorted, and look into advertising in alternative places.
Punternet and Punterlink are free or very cheap and I believe they are still quite popular sites with good Google rankings (try popping "escort reviews" into Google for even more advertising possibilities).
The more we support a wider variety of directories and listings sites, the more they will be motivated to compete with one another to provide the most affordable and useful services to us (and to real punters, which need not necessarily be opposite things
) rather than random Internet wankers (that word meant in the literal rather than insulting sense!), like AW unfortunately tends to. Well, that's in an ideal world, anyway. But either way, it can never hurt to widen your net as far as ads and listings go!