Comments on: Working In A Brothel

By: Rats

Rats — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:46:53 +0000

I must say, I find it wildly amusing that people (or maybe it’s just one person commenting under different names on different sites) are so concerned with precisely what one can earn in an ordinary job, and how that compares to the skin trade.
First off, although it didn’t say so in that particular entry, I was referring to Canadian dollars, at the exchange rate used when I was in the business (~1.5).
Secondly, medicine, law, and other professional jobs ARE ordinary jobs. Thousands of people have them. What on earth did you think I was talking about, McDonald’s? In my current employment, I can make more for a fifteen-minute ink drawing ($50-$75 USD) than I could earn for one trick as an $80CDN/hour escort.
(Honestly, though, what’s the big fuss? In the very first paragraph, I pointed out that the whole article–which isn’t even an article, per se, but an entry in my personal journal–is really quite flippant and tongue-in-cheek. I get the impression some people felt compelled to comment after reading only the two-paragraph blurb on this site.)

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:54:13 +0000

Thanks, Vikki. I didn’t have the energy, and I would have been repeating myself.

By: Vikki

Vikki — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:36:43 +0000

Wow, trolling much?
“Easier” does not really mean “can’t earn it any other way”. It’s all about choice. While she may very well have been able to choose another career that paid that much, at the time she chose not to. Simple as that.
Not everyone can understand why she’d make that choice, but to dismiss any possibility of it being true because the alternative is unfathomable - well, that’s just hiding the proverbial head in the sand.
Assuming that sex workers choose their profession because they’re too stupid to make that kind of money anywhere else is not just insulting in all cases, it’s untrue in many cases.
As well, not all prostitutes stand on a corner and hawk it for the lowest price (kind of her point, if you read the article). High-end escorts can make very good money simply because they’re classy, educated, and intelligent. They’re paid handsomely for their company and time, not just for the number of positions they can twist their body into. Up to and over $1000 dollars a night, not from multiple tricks, but from just one gentleman willing to pay to be in her company. And her case is certainly not unique - plenty of high-end escorts out there, both men and women.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:54:49 +0000

Really, $160K a year? Lots of professional jobs, huh? Ordinary jobs?
I think perhaps she may have overstated her case. I doubt she’s turning a trick an hour. More like $80 every few hours.
“Plenty of folks in that line of work because it’s big fairly easy money.”
That’s exactly my point. That’s the only way they can get that kind of money. Otherwise, they’d be doing something else.

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:28:40 +0000

Lots of professional jobs pay in that range. What, you think prostitutes are different from the rest of us? Go read Belle De Jour. Plenty of folks in that line of work because it’s big fairly easy money. The profession is not closed to smart educated people, even if the rest of us might marvel at the values that let them take up that profession.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:59:41 +0000

Please point me to the ordinary job a prostitute can do that pays $80/hr.