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General Category => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: DanFTM on 28 July 2014, 08:38:09 pm
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Hi there, I don't know if any of you will be able to help me with this.... I'm looking for specific resources for trans escorts (I am female-to-male trans), including advertising. Punterlink, for example, doesn't accept ads from trans sex workers, and adultwork excludes you from the search unless the person searching explicitly clicks the "TS/TV" box. Obviously this is very frustrating! It would be good as well to find mutual support with other trans sex workers, but many of us have to stay in the closet on both counts (especially because gender identity clinics and so on will often refuse health care and transition resources if you are a SW). Any suggestions?
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How do you suppouse to work when you are male? As gay?
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Sorry, I don't understand? Some of my male clients are gay, some are bi, some are bi-curious, and some identify as straight but are interested to try out something new...
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Sorry, I don't understand? Some of my male clients are gay, some are bi, some are bi-curious, and some identify as straight but are interested to try out something new...
Yes, and so are lots of people who come to see us :). The trouble with advertising is you have to try and pigeon hole people who aren't easily pigeon holed for the sake of convenience and ease of doing searches and so on, but thankfully there are at least a handful of sites which allow people to advertise as trans although it would be useful if they also had an FTM or MTF box maybe? I don't honestly know if Adultwork does.
The main directories are notoriously transphobic, but I think My Local Escorts and Select an Escort have advertising for all genders, and there will be others. I don't honestly know about specific trans-only sites though - hopefully somebody else might :).
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My TS friends and duo partners mainly use backpage, birchplace, eros, transgays and londonts etc
I'm not sure that any of these have an FTM escort category.
A search for "female to male" trans* escort london only returns a few results but maybe google their mobile numbers and see where they're advertising assuming you're in London.
If you have your own website you might find it relatively easy to get a very high search ranking for a search like the one above and I suspect clients looking for FTM would be more likely to search this way than go on directories which are much more geared towards MTF.
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Thank you all! Adultwork do allow trans people, but you only show up on a search if the searcher specifically selects "TVTS", otherwise you're invisible. I am in London, and do have my own website - I shall have to look into search engine optimisation! Thanks again :)
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Clients on AW wanting a trans sex-worker, look for them in the search options.
If you look at any of the trans escorts profiles, at the bottom of the
profile page is a Views: counter. These show that the profiles
have been looked at many thousands of times by people who have
searched for trans-prozzies. In other works it works fine.
Honestly the only thing to remember is to log onto your profile
and alter the text by one character or space, several times a day.
This pushes your profile to the top of the front page.
AW only has a TV/TS box which is not helpful.
A M2F & a F2M box would help too but would be very unlikely
to get added due to the rarity of F2M escorts.
Because of this I suggest that you SELL the F2M aspect, so you stick out.
It's rare so you will get clients due to that, and you
will have little/no competition.
The other places to advertise which I'd suggest, have already been mentioned
by Aussie Male Escort. {Big wave Aussie}
I would suggest you look for other F2M escorts and ask where they advertise.
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Hi Jodie :-)
Good luck Dan. Shout out if you need anything.
Like Jodie said, having little to no competition is a great position to be in.
You just need to make sure people looking for what makes you different can find you.
For the SEO blog regularly and use the words female to male transsexual/FTM/F2M etc frequently in your blog posts and banner/link exchange with other related sites and you'll get there.