My best friend worked in this industry 6 years ago and we were comparing notes.. she tells me how the calibre of clients was different back then.. . Girls had professional pics and websites done, charged good rates and the calibre of clients was very different and there was no such thing as 15 min quickies and half an hour bookings.
Also the above isn't directed at anyone it's just a general observation of how the market has changed.
Actually it isn't, it's your friends
opinion of how and why
her market has changed which is not the same thing. And her frame of reference sounds narrow, to say the least
.
The idea that short/quickie bookings as well as low rates never existed before AW is about as bizarre as the idea that good/bad punters are a new thing. Does your friend not know about parlours and working flats, walkups, street prostitution? If her clients aren't treating her well then that's down to her screening - blaming other women and how/where they advertise (and you can tell her I don't have a professional website or pictures and I have virtually no problems with unpleasant punters ever) is not the way forward.
You could also point out that pre-internet, anybody wanting to get into prostitution for whatever reason had to largely rely on a pimp of some kind to do so unless they wanted to spend a lot of time on the phone and a lot of money on newspaper/contact mag ads. Now, virtually anybody can put up their own ads very easily and with little cost, and control their own business including how and where they're marketing - Adultwork has been a huge part of that. Why would you care if other people want to have porny pictures - nobody's making you have them if you don't want to - I don't have them either?
Back to the topic, and I'm with the people who would far rather punters came along wanting stuff done to them for an hour, even if doing the same thing the whole time would be boring. They're paying to get what they want, and if that means avoiding being rubbed raw or the 'but I just want to please
yooooou!' stuff then I'm all for selfish
.