This conversation reminds me of me thirty or so years ago. I used to like to ask drag queens and trans women very intrusive questions about themselves. Somehow, I thought that the fact that they were different entitled me to ask things of them that I would never ask anyone else. In one of those flashes of insight, I realized what an asshole I was being and felt terrible when I realized that I was assuming that they weren't entitled to the same privacy that everyone else is. This thread has that sort of feel. For the most part, personal income is off limits as a topic of discussion except among people who know each other very well (I don't know how much any of my siblings make), but somehow, it's OK when its escorts.