to be honest, because of the stress and stigma, especially of having to lie all the time to people or face the masses of bullshit that we have to if we are out of the whore closet, I highly doubt most people do it out of curiousity. All of the girls I know that do it (and I know quite a few in my personal friendship circle) it's because they just can't cope with the working environment they are in and/or faced with a crap financial situation. The ones that stay in it are the ones that have the constitution for it.

I'll be honest, I prefer to work to most of the jobs I've ever done simply because of the autonomy and half decent pay. I like meeting lots of new people and I know I'm good at it helps.

But I couldn't do it for the rest of my life simply because I couldn't take being closeted to most people. I don't do well with closets. I'm shit at them and it feels incredibly icky to lie to people about what I do and who I am. That's why I couldn't be closeted as a gayer and couldn't be closeted when I had more than one partner. Some people do ok with it. I just can't. I don't think there's anything wrong with what I do. And tbh I don't think there's anything wrong with men or women seeing a prozzie if they need to have sex and don't want any bullshit.

I'm not in it for the long run and I am just doing it for money. I don't feel one way or another about it. I feel about it just like I did when I did vet nursing. Not my dream job, but it has pluses. lots of gross things, but it's part of the work.

When asked by people if I don't find certain aspects distasteful, I say well yes of course. But so did the picking up dogshit part of vet nursing. *shrug*

If girls lower their prices to do what they think they need to do, that's up to them. The people who want something different will go else where. But the economy is in the toilet. My prices are ?30 an hour less than when I started. I would rather a couple of people more a week than miss out completely because no one can afford it anymore. I haven't dropped my domme prices at all. I almost never get asked for Domming anymore because my prices are higher - except for those who want scat. And I don't want to do the clean up for that.

It was very quiet this month for a payday friday. I still got what I needed, but the phone rang a lot less. A LOT less. I'd personally rather keep to the price of my area and knock off ?10 again if I have to than have far fewer calls. If I was able to live with much less overhead, like in a studio, I would have done so. But I can't.

I am going to miss the freedom of escorting when I have to go strictly to camera work.

Hello,

Depends on how you work really - I mostly offer outcalls so it's quite slow, but when I do offer incalls I just pop my number up and get loads of calls, and a girl I know only works that way and she's busy on the days she wants to be busy on.

Also take into consideration your location, pricing etc....and having a good profile with good pictures is important.

Best of luck xx

I was getting my nails done today, and my beautician was telling me that September was dead for her  too in her salon, so it may be a wider problem than we thought

No. :,-( and I overspent last week because I was busy.

The couple of weeks I have been really busy and the phone has been ringing constantly. The thing is and I'm not meaning to sound bitchy here either but every month someone is saying there must be a reason for it being so quiet, it's the recession, it's the summer holidays, it's too hot everyone's out with their with their kids ect, then it's because it's a bank holiday or it's been raining I mean there seems to be new reasons invented every month I mean come on lol! I'm not being funny but I know several girls that are always busy no matter what so I don't believe it's always down to a particular reason but rather rates, area and other things like your profile ect.

It all boils down to what you class as busy, luckily I've found a day job to keep the bills paid. I'm not too fussed about it being quiet for me, I'm still getting the work in, I guess it's just a lot less enquiries that materialise to nothing.

Here in the U.S., business is dead in all of my travel rotation cities. Can't get much going it's so ridiculous. I am blaming it on the fact of gas STILL being $3.50+ everywhere. It's been that way all year long with gas not dipping below $3 and I think overtime it's just slowly eating away and people's pockets/confidence.

I feel even worse because I've planned 2 tours already and cancelled them both. One of which was to be taking place this week, but I do have another next week already airfare/hotel payed for by client. I just can't afford to travel out places with only 1 or 2 clients asking to book. And if I'm not getting several advanced requests, I just won't take the risk of going.

I don't know though if gas has anything to do with it though. It's hard to tell. Part of it is I've lived and visited the same areas for months/years. Things are drying out. Next month, I plan to go ahead and do a BIG tour across the country and really get the ball rolling. Although, if I knew where to travel abroad I'd do that too.

At the time being, I'm thankful to high heavens I received a hefty inheritance last month...but I'm also paranoid about spending thru too much of it and once I get to a certain dollar amount, which I'm already nearing...I'm starting to strategize ways to make more money as I want it to last atleast to the beginning of next year, and in fact save it completely and have a saftey net. Not just spend it on bills and stuff because escorting is not picking up