@User#8628, thanks again for such frankness. I truly didn’t expect you to open so much in the forum about your personal experience. We all (escorts, mongers, and cheaters) share some common experiences about personal relationships and partners, and my questions were intended in that regard mostly: prospects about partners. The labor experience of escorts, however, it’s extremely unique and we (mongers and cheaters) cannot truly bring something of equal worth to the table. So, again, I’m just so glad to read such frankness about the labor aspect too, it is quite selfless from you.
Oh, there is definitely a world outside. And i'm not sure about my future, and maybe there are some restrictions on what i can do in the future because of having a past like this.
Just for the record, I never intended with my previous comments to insinuate that you or other escorts were sacrificing the future for the present.
As for a partner, for me it's an absolute must that someone is open minded and as long as my sex drive doesn't suddenly change i don't want monogamy in my relationship.
So nightlife guy or not, this is definitely an important thing for me in relationships.
I think I understand better this aspect now that you explain it. So, yes, nightlife world or not you would still be only interested in a person that is open minded about open relationships. Specially if you don’t plan to change your habits (like that Mitch Hedberg’s joke), then it’s not so much a confession from your past, but rather setting boundaries from the very beginning for the present and the future of a relationship.
I think that we all (escorts, mongers, and cheaters) would like to be more honest from the start about polygamy, but society is quite sided against open relationships. Thus the cheating and the hiding. If society were truly more understanding about open relationships, then we could also increase the standards for more honesty regarding the desire for multiple partners from the beginning. As things are now if you estate from the let go that you are polyamorous there is huge chance of being considered a “slut” or “a pervert guy only interested in sex”. You can see this a lot in dating apps, where people looking for open relationships are rarely seen and treated as equal users, but more like an annoyance/spambots that get in the way of the “legitimate users” looking only for long term and monogamous relationships.
Ideally, I think that one day in the future people should be able to be more open about wanting an open relationship. And I say this as someone who is not necessarily looking for an open relationship (even as a monger I was monogamous), I side with you. Now, off course, there will be people who always will cheat not because of their sex drive, but because they like the thrill of it, the drama, or want to hurt other person. We can improve things, but will never fix them entirely.
As for future work this could ruin some opportunities but there is nothing that i really aspire to do and this is the thing that makes me happy at the moment. Also if i am smart with my money i can be pretty secure for the future.
Children is a big point, but there are many famous pornstars and normal SW who have children later with or without quitting so it should be fine..
I'm planning to not be very open about it to people who are not close to me. If someone would find out and out me in my new circle of people and my children would get bullied or something, moving or just changing school is the best idea i think.
A lot of Japanese women do SW at some point and succesfully get out and become very ordinary citizen later. Of course i'm a lot more outstanding... But maybe i could as well. I don't know.
I didn’t expect you to open about this. Reading it was very interesting. Future work and career prospects is definitely something that hits escorts in a special way that doesn’t affect as much mongers or just cheaters.
Some escorts do escorting as way of financing what they consider their “true careers”, even when it is often the case that their escorting job makes more money than their careers. But other escorts consider escorting their true career. There are downsides and upsides to each (if escorting is not your true career, then it becomes a secret for your future non-night work; if escorting is your true career, then you need to think what will you do in the future when your looks fade with age) I think either option is fine as long as you are honest with yourself and keep in check were your future is heading.
I have read a lot in this forum something you said, I quote,
“a lot of Japanese women do SW at some point and successfully get out and become very ordinary citizens later.” I don’t know how could you prove that, other than saying that a lot of Japanese women do SW at some point and
somehow they have to become ordinary citizens later. That is a statistical/demographical fact that must be true, when escorts quit their job they aren’t disappearing from Earth (thankfully!), they go back to society…
somehow. I guess the point is that escorts aren’t trapped in sex work forever.* The getting out of it
successfully and becoming
very ordinary part I’m not sure how can it even be measured, let alone prove a positive tendency. Do ex-sex workers face difficulties in society and their personal lives that we don’t see after they quit? I think it’s natural to assume some specific issues affect them, but there is no way to prove it statistically. I’m not picking on your argument, I’m just saying that it is something difficult to measure and I would be surprised if there are comprehensive studies about sex works’s life after they quit, you would need both qualitative date (interviews) and quantitative data (polls), and have short and long term follow up of the participants for the results to be significant. Otherwise we are just hoping that sex workers don’t just quit their jobs, but also that they are able to do it successfully and ordinarily.
*If a escort stays in sex work I think it’s important to consider the difference between those who stay willingly and are able to grow theirs careers: they become managers of their shops, madams, etc. In contrast to those escorts who stay reluctantly and go down the ladder: hostess -> soapland -> health -> pink salon. The point remains, however, that a lot of women do sex work in life, they get in and out and don’t stay. It’s more like a revolving door than a close end.
The thing you mention about mongers being punished is also very outstanding to me. Isn't that a law in Sweden? (Prostitution is legal but using the service isn't.)
It doesn't make any sense to me. Dangerous law imo. Might lead to more sexual assault if you ask me (not sure but i did hear that Sweden also has a bit of a rape problem).
There are studies both for and against the Swedish model. I could bring links in favor or against, but finding the right balance is extremely difficult. Once again, the problem is how to even measure these things. People in policy making are interested in finding indicators (decrease in number of active sex workers) that prove their policies are right. And people against them find other indicators (sexual assault cases, or underground sex workers increase, for example). If it turns out that the lasting impact of the policy is negative, what would make the Swedish model quite insidious is that Swedish social policy is one of the best (healthcare, education, etc.), and that would create the misconception that making illegal “solicitation” is the progressive thing to do. If it were an American policy… well, nobody is looking up to America for good example in social policies.
Something similar can also be said for the German model which is the closest you can get to legalization. There are pros and cons. My gut feeling is that a lot of policy work (honest policy) needs to be done after legalization, otherwise the market takes a huge dive towards demand (mongers), and leaves supply (escorts) with very little power in their hands. Prices go down and managers in the middle get to take a big chunk using their scale, for example brothel owners (that is the problem of indies, they don’t have scale, and trying to get it creates privacy issues). This is not exclusive of sex work, it happens also for example with Uber and similar businesses were workers get very little power, while users and an middle man (Uber) get the upper hand, but at least there isn’t an stigma against car driving in society.
Escorts have definitely more interesting lifes than the regular monger imo. And its also more difficult to hide our lifes.
Main reasons for this is that mongers don't do it very often, like once in a month for example, and a lot of escorts do it every day, or at least weekly.
And escorts usually have to promote themselves with some pictures so they are more recognizable.
Agreed. As an interesting math exercise I once wondered how many years would it take for an active monger to catch up with the number of times an escort had sex. Maybe an entire life in order to catch up with 5 years of a escort that worked several days a week, several customers a day? Not all escorts have such tough schedules, but they aren’t as exceptional as one would think, once you get away from high class escorting the rates aren’t too good and several hours need to be put to make decent money. There was a topic here at TAG about the number of different sex partners, I believe
@Wwanderer came as close as possible as having the most partners in a life.
The real difference, though, as you mention is the contrast in privacy (or lack of it) between escorts and mongers. And the online world only makes this worst. It is very rarely the case that mongers privacy is at stake to the same degree that escorts privacy is.
But at least for now this wasn't so bad for me. I hope i'll always have the luxury of open minded people around me but i cant tell what the future brings of course. It might bite me in the ass but should i let a possible future ruin my happiness of the moment?
I truly hope things work well for you in the future. And just to be clear, I don’t intend any of my comments with a subtext that the future will bite escorts in the ass. I’m not saying this
like those moralizing ads against piracy in the cinema that tell you “crime doesn’t pay.” That’s not my attitude at all. Both in your career and relationships I hope it pays off.