I just saw on a prozzie website that banks are also closing a third of shooting businesses down, which is great but I'm really offended we are classed as immoral like them. We choose what to do with our bodies - the animals do not. So I don't know where this is going to end up, it's a bloody cheek treating sex workers like this.

Hardly anyone likes sex workers in the business world and a lot of the public. I understand most look down on it but as it is legal for independents to do this as work banks should not be refusing accounts when having a bank is needed to live a standard life.

Be interesting to hear off any women that are totally honest about their job and have it listed with HMRC as sex worker and put it down on anything they might need to fill in as a job title and how it has affected them.

I know of one women years ago that did this and told her bank manager and even applied for extra overdraft etc and a loan. Bank manager said because of the job title they cannot help her with anything as banks cannot be involved in that type of thing but thanked her for being honest. It would be far worse now days with how the banks treat people.

I got a letter today from my bank that I need to stop making large cash deposits by March. They said these look like business transactions so suggested making a business account if they are... Need to figure out a business account that won't charge me too much to deposit and access my own money and how I'm going to find a bank who will accept the vague information I would be able to give about what I'm saying my business does. Just what I needed right now. 

I got a letter today from my bank that I need to stop making large cash deposits by March. They said these look like business transactions so suggested making a business account if they are... Need to figure out a business account that won't charge me too much to deposit and access my own money and how I'm going to find a bank who will accept the vague information I would be able to give about what I'm saying my business does. Just what I needed right now. 

Which bank was it please?  Could they not give you a business account?

Open multiple accounts and spread out your deposits

Yes, think that's what I might have to do.

Which bank was it please?  Could they not give you a business account?

It's Natwest. I haven't tried to set up a business account yet as I never wanted one, but will have to see if I can or figure out switching to another bank.

Natwest are notorious at the moment for closing accounts.  There's even a facebook group on it.  Last year they changed their terms and will now only accept £24,000 a year cash into a personal account.

Yikes, probably a good idea to open a new account elsewhere then.

I'd be quite happy to take online payments or bank transfers if there was a fully bombproof way to do it, so proper anonymity for both parties if preferred, no chargebacks and no twattery from banks. Having to traipse to the bank most days is a pain in the arse, cash is a target for robbers and I only really use it for grocery shopping.

Until things change though, cash it is.

To add to the above, I've had to go to three banks (in three different parts of London) today just to find one with a working ATM so I could bank my cash; it could have been six but three of the branches I previously used are shut.

It's a Bank Holiday weekend and also the end of the month, so I need my money in as my bills go out on the first and I have to pay my salary. Absolute pain in the arse.

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This may well have been covered before but with there being more bank branch closures and a move to things becoming more digital, how do you feel about where this leaves the future of our line of work?

I know some girls already do digital transactions but I hate the growing reliance on technology for other aspects of life as it is.

Same I try to pay cash wherever  if a place doesn’t take cash I will generally walk away
And surprisingly a lot of hotels take still cash
My last 3 hotels stays  happily  took  cash
And on my 3 week tour in Jan 3 out of 5 hotels took cash