Hey girls,

first off, I'd just like to say that this forum is an absolute godsend!! I'm soooo happy I found it, I've been browsing for a couple of days now feeling like I finally found a whole bunch of friends here <3

I've researched the forum and there's a ton of info here, but I'd still like to ask for advice (or perhaps rather reassurance).

I started escorting a month ago; as I'm a newbie I figured I'd try an agency first and my first one was an absolute nightmare. It was owned by a guy who would make the girls sleep with him for free; he'd call it 'training' or he'd claim to be a 'good friend' or whatever, so I got the hell out of there because it was absolutely unacceptable. The other 3 girls working there were 18-20 years old, I think the sleazebag was grooming them or something...anyway it was horrendous and I wish I never went there in the first place!!!

I then applied for a couple of agencies with super glossy websites, but the thing is, I'm a size 14 with lots of tattoos and long blonde dreadlocks so I was told my look was not what they were looking for.

So I decided to try a parlour. On the one hand, it was nice because the (female) owner was really friendly and supportive, and the other girls working there were lovely; the place was very nice and clean, I felt perfectly safe. But on a busy night, I'd see 8 - 12 clients, and usually more than half of them weren't exactly nice-super drunk and smelly, drunk and smelly, drunk and rude, or they'd push for services I don't do. Now the owner had no problem if I refused clients, but if I didn't want to do the super drunk or smelly ones I found I'd only get 2-3 per day, and usually 15min/half an hour ones so after paying my parlour fees I wasn't making much money at all.

I am now with an agency that likes variety and had no problem with my size, tattoos and dreadlocks; I've done 2 shifts with them and I think I'd do quite well, but I feel like they wouldn't be very happy if I declined bookings, they are sort of passive aggresively trying to make me do much more shifts than I want to, and though the manager is nice I'm not very happy paying them the 30% plus another 20% to the driver for outcalls. Plus, I'm 31 years old, I really hate putting up with bullshit from clients, I just feel like I don't have the patience for the weirdos, the rude ones and the ones who apparently are incapable of taking a shower.

So the only reasonable thing to do here is to go independent, obviously, but I'm a bit insecure if my looks would attract enough business. 100% of my parlour/agency clients loved me, in fact I already have a regular with my current agency after only 2 days there, so I think I'm pretty good at this and I do genuinely enjoy it if the client is nice, friendly, respectful and clean; I'm sure that they'll be happy with the experience once they see me, but the thing is, since I'm very alternative looking-how can I make sure they DO choose to see me in the first place?I'm very anxious about it. I know that variety is the key and that all shapes, sizes and looks attract clients but I still feel super insecure!!

And second-I'm still struggling with money. I was totally skint when I started, so I have paid off my rent debt etc by now and I have only saved a couple hundred pounds. My question is, should I stick with my current agency for another month or so to save enough $$$ for renting an incall appartment, getting good photos and website and having money for another month or two just in case the business will be slow, or should I just take the plunge, create an AW profile and only do outcalls for now, and hope for the best? I really really want to be able to choose my clients and working hours and keep all my earnings to myself, but at the same time, I am super anxious about not getting business and going skint again...

Any words of wisdom?

And sorry for the long post, I just really needed to get this off my chest...

Thanks guys!! Evie xxx

I presume you have had a look online at other ladies who work?If so then you will have seen that we all come in different shapes and sizes so no reason to be insecure in your looks.
You don't need fancy photos you can do good selfies to start with.As has been said you could try out only doing outcalls for now to get some money together and maybe do the odd incall day in a hotel?

Your agency has some odd ideas; you don't work for them, it's the other way round?

That is unless they're offering proper terms and conditions regarding PAYE, holiday allowance, maternity leave and everything else which comes with taking on actual staff in the real world. Since pimping is illegal even in the usual way where you are self employed and engaging them as your agent to find you work, I doubt they're going to create even more of a paper trail than they already have.

We all know here that a pimp will 'punish' anybody who doesn't toe the line by withholding work and so on, which is as good a reason as any not to have one, but even if you do want to keep it up for now (to use their incall space, or whatever) you can surely find one without such bizarre ideas about their station in the world .

Loved your post Amy thing is, i have applied to other agencies but this is the only one that doesn't mind my size 14, tattoos, and dreadlocks. All the other ones i applied to said thanks but no thanks as they're looking for model girls.

I guess I'll just have to tough it out for a couple of months, save some money and then go indie-I guess I'm just too chicken to quit now and risk getting behind my rent again:(

Thanks for the idea Esme.PM'd you about parlours.

Just forgot to add: when I went indie I had not much money left on my bank account but I have rented a few dungeons and a hotel and made a great profit. Sometimes its worth it to take the plunge.