Are you in the UK?

To be honest, I don't know how many men would feel comfortable handing over ID.  I've never heard of anyone asking for ID in this country, but that's not to say it doesn't happen/you can't do it.  You should be able to choose how you want to work.  Just be aware that it might put prospective clients off.

There are other ways you can stay safe:

- only take bookings from guys who are arriving by car, and get them to park in a designated space/area, where you can see their number plate.  Take a note of said number plate.

- get a spyhole fitted in your door.

- install CCTV, hidden if you prefer.  That way, you are filming them but they don't know it.  Paris mentioned on another thread that you can actually buy a spyhole for your door which has a camera built-in 

You can ask for what you want - at least one person here has asked to see photo ID - but it may affect how many people want to book you.

If you do some decent screening and have a proper security procedure in place (including having someone know someone's with you, when they're expected to leave and what to do if you don't call to say they've gone) it becomes easier.

There are also other alternatives to working from home, including sub-letting as and when, hotels etc etc, but wherever you are, you are still much better off with that security procedure.

If you are going to work from home, you definitely want to know how many people are outside the door before you open it.

im terribly nosy  and have cctv in  both my working flat and at my home   ( for  spying on neighbours lol) 

  I bought mine from B&Q a few years ago  its colour and it incredibly good vision wise as its wide angled so you can see quite a bit not just straight in front 

   It basically replaces the normal spy hole  in your front door so its really discrete I think i paid 40 pounds for it
 its very very easy to put in just take the orginal spyhole out and  replace it with the camera one  and you just run the wire into a spare tv switch on the tv to av channel and you can see who is at the door 
  This isnt the one that i have  but its very similar and if your a bit techi then you can by an extra transmitter which will allow it to work wireless from your pc or tv   


http://www.securehomedirect.co.uk/Product-Door-Peep-Hole-Color-CCD-CCTV-Camera_41.aspx
 
Also you might want to walk around your area and decide how your going to direct the guys in  ie look for easy identifiable landmarks to direct them to and  get a map of surrounding streets so that you know the area  so if they say im at such and such a st it will be easy for you to direct them to you without getting them lost

Some will respect that's its your home. And  some won't.  I want to know who is knocking on my door and that's its only one person and. Not 2. For 40 pounds its worth piece of mind for me. 

lol  yeah if i relied on just  on  adultwork i would have starved and be a size 0 by now  ( maybe i should start doing just that and call it the adultwork diet)

  But honestly -  i think that anything that makes you feel more secure no matter how small it is  is worth it  ok cctv dosnt do anything physically for you. like  having someone sat in with you,  but i think it can give you more of a psycological feeling of feeling a bit safer and thats can mean a lot 
 i dont think that anything can be considered to be to extreme with regards to your safety when your doing this kind of work especially if your new to it and dont know what to expect

I agree about the ID - it's up to you but it's not really the done thing in the UK and I think one of the main reasons punters book incalls is because of the anonymity of it. I would concentrate on making your working premises (wherever it is) secure and the CCTV is really good, you can also get them in smoke alarms now too.

I also think that there's far more of a culture and understanding regarding what is acceptable behaviour in punting than with these NSA type sites, because it's business and at least one of the parties involved is carrying out their job. The people you see will by and large be aware of the unwritten rules and respect them accordingly, and whilst it only takes one, with heavy screening you're very unlikely to run into the same sorts of problems and there are loads of threads on this forum with tips.

As for only seeing people from Adultwork with feedback, that might be practical in London but I would have starved to death years ago  .

Interesting to see the opinion re guys paying being more inclined to respect your privacy etc than on an Nsa site.Makes sense I guess..

I think that the general mentality is people value what they pay for more than they value what is free. In my other world, I am sort of a service provider.  I wanted to work with startup companies and thought that the fact that I was independent with reasonable fees and experience would be my ticket to ride. Instead, I'd get the odd bit of business thrown my way, but for the most part the startups went with big names and big fees... And, I go to a lot of music industry conferences. The highest priced ones are set up so that the speakers are huge and the pay-to-go peeps are mere beginners...nothing in common and all the speakers REALLY have to offer is more bullshit and stars in the listeners' eyes. But, the DIY and reasonably priced conferences have very low attendance. Somehow, free sex means "I can text a booty call at 2 am after two months of blowing someone out" whilst paid sex may induce fantasists but also means that the average Joe respects his own autonomy and privacy as well as valuing a service that actually cost money. Obviously, there are exceptions in each case....

Just to say ....

CCTV is illegal unless you put a notice up saying there is CCTV in action and they are being filmed.  If its for piece of mine then fine but if its for use in a potential police thingy (as in if a girl was hurt) the police would not be able to use this (I don't think)  I think they could if it was someone stealing knickers of a line in a 'normal' house but as a business thing I don't think so.  May be worth checking out.

However someone saying you can get them in a smoke alarm is good, where from?  I have someone sneaking around my back garden some nights  

It isn't illegal or restricted on private property where members of the public don't have access (defining a public place can be hairy in law, but your home most certainly isn't one). Your CCTV must only cover your own property though - if you have a garden path going to the road that's fine but you can't film the public footpath or the road, or the edge or your neighbours property, or whatever. If it's just in your hallway say, that's fine .

You could put up a sign if you wanted, but there's no need (and I'd be inclined to make it small).