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EnglishAlex
Mellors you summed it up from me pretty well tbh.
If I believed my clients were abusing me that means I'm self harming by allowing them to do so. Sorry to disappoint Ruhama but I've got far too much self esteem for that nonsense. I'm not a doormat in any part of my life, nor do I expect others to be.
Also I don't agree that all men who visit escorts have no respect for them. There are bad apples everywhere, in all walks of life so of course we have to deal with ignorant pigs some of the time. That's part of the job. What's difficult is hearing people trying to bargain with you for what is essentially something extremely personal. We're allowing you inside our personal space (to put it mildly). So knowing this, to then try and haggle price or encourage ladies to drop their fee is outrageous! Nice clients wouldn't dream of doing this. If the lady charged too much for their budget, they'd simply see another escort or save up. Simple.
We're people, just like everybody else. Society has let us down, and continues to do so by making out we're either devious manipulative egotistical bitches or the other end of the scale: dragged into the job and locked in a flat by a pimp. Newsflash! We're business women, running a business in extremely difficult times.
What Lucy said in her op about selling a little of ourselves: to me that means I make sacrifices to do this job. I don't usually spend much time at home so I don't see family and friends as much as I'd like. Sometimes, my life doesn't feel as full as it used to when I didn't do this job. They're sacrifices I'm happy to make (for a preplanned time frame) in order to earn.