I had been thinking about escorting and looking into it for months with little success, trying to find my way into the industry. I too thought the only way I could go was to sign up with an agency and escortopia (yes, them) had me just about ensnared.
Frankly I was thinking I had to try SOMEthing, but the day before I was about to go to the bank to deposit the fee they were asking for, I felt so uneasy. I just knew what they were saying was far to good to be true.
So I again googled the word Escortopia - and top of the search list came a heading from a topic about them on Saafe. I clicked on the link and started reading - 3 or 4 hours later I was still drinking in the information on the main site and the forums and had filled a notebook with comments, links and questions. Finally I got the guts to register and post my first anxious question - really just looking for extra confirmation that the agency was a scam, which I got.
I then spent days reading every single post on the forum, nosing around the sites of the ladies on here and starting to post some topics.
I haven't looked back since, so thank you Escortopia for leading me to saafe.