Raise The Rate 2018 Proposal Letter

[BlakeBenz]

Things are moving faster than I expected... So I will be placing a copy of this letter here. My rates are increasing as of May 1st and so are many other providers in Houston. I have received amazing responses. This letter is ALSO being shared by thousands of female escorts across the country. Many females have already raised their rates or removed the one hour option from their listings. Why not us as well? I hope you all decide to stand up for what you deserve and make this change with us. OUR BODIES. OUR CHOICE. Please feel free to copy and share to every provider you know as well.

 

 

Dear Fellow Providers,

 

 

This letter is in regards to the Rate Raise Movement of 2018 #RaiseTheRate2018. You may be aware of the effects FOSTA/SESTA has had on your business and peace of mind. I am requesting on the behalf of the entire adult industry and especially to providers in our city to raise your rate by at least $100 by May 1st.

 

 

 

This one act when done in unison by all providers across the country will bring higher quality clients, making your work environment safer AND more profitable. This is only possible if everyone does it. We must stand together in unison as sex-workers. If you can respond to this letter with a simple ‘yes’ you are committing to bettering the quality of your life and future.

 

 

 

Several years ago, $500 was considered to be low end for a providers hourly rate. The cost of living has gone up and the amount of providers has doubled in the recent years, driving prices down. This is NOT sustainable and will ultimately leave the industry in ruins. Now, with the limitations of FOSTA, finding safe clientele will be increasingly difficult. A universal rate raise is this only way to ensure survival at this point. The time to takeaction is NOW.

 

 

 

Here are some tips to help justify your price raise:

 

 

● Update your photos with higher quality images. If you don’t have immediate funds for this, go tomodelmayhem.com. Find a photographer that will do a trade shoot with you. That means they take your photos for free but can use the images forwhatever purpose they want.

 

● Consider revamping your website to showcaseyour personality including a blog.

 

● Replace your 1 hour option with a 90 minuteminimum.

 

● Build your social media presence to generate some buzz around your brand, but be aware that

 

sites like Instagram and Twitter are increasingly banning accounts that look like obvious

 

sex-workers.

 

● Work on self-care to boost your confidence level. Not only is it good for your mental and physical

 

health, but your clients will find your new found glow more attractive.

 

● Read the free Ebook on www.thecompleteguidetoescorting.com for moretips.

 

 

 

Know that we are as frustrated as you are with how difficult things have become. Even the most high end providers have been affected in someway by FOSTA/SESTA. It’s time to take a standand change the industry for the better. Please respond to this letter and forward it to your provider colleagues and post on social media to make a real change.

 

 

Please consider this letter as my promise to raise my rate come May 1st. Will you join us?

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Blake Benz

 

Your local provider and ally

Edited April 7, 2018 by BlakeBenz

[+ purplekow]

You are certainly free to charge what you feel is equitable. Of course a 33% raise in rates would likely drive some to hire less often and lead others to not hire at all. Those who are considering trying to contact an escort for the first time may find the rates a bit too much for a experimental encounter. Tips, likely will decrease in frequency and amount.

 

As for me, a tightening of the financial situations has led me to downsize my encounter number, raising the rate will likely reduce that number further.

So good luck with your plans. I am sure there are many that will join you and quite a few that will not. We will call those escorts who do not, the busy ones.

[BlakeBenz]

You are certainly free to charge what you feel is equitable. Of course a 33% raise in rates would like drive some to hire less often and others not to hire at all. Those who are considering trying to contact an escort may find the rates a bit too much for a experimental encounter. Tips, likely will disappear to not happen at all. As for me, a tightening of the financial situations has led me to downsize my encounter number, raising the rate will likely reduce that number further.

So good luck with your plans. I am sure there are many that will join you and quite a few that will not, we will call those escorts the busy ones.

 

And this is prime example of why I wanted to avoid posting this publicly. This is a time where the strong will rise and the weak will fall, unfortunately. I already charge 400/hr outcall and have zero problems. In fact I have done only one single hour appointment in March. I was booked for 5 figures last week, and I have made an extremely large amount in one night off 2 clients working the super bowl. I’m not saying this to brag, but to prove that when you believe in yourself and the quality of your experience anything is possible. If you do not hire me because of my rates, the you aren’t the client for me. I think providers should raise their rates, because their ARE people willing to pay that price. Of course all my past clients will be grandfathered in at their current rates, but as far as new clients go... the circumstances leave us few to no other options. M4RN just got shut down and we have only a few platforms left to advertise on (which could also be going away soon).

[+ purplekow]

And this is prime example of why I wanted to avoid posting this publicly. This is a time where the strong will rise and the weak will fall, unfortunately. I already charge 400/hr outcall and have zero problems. In fact I have done only one single hour appointment in March. I was booked for 5 figures last week, and I have made an extremely large amount in one night off 2 clients working the super bowl. I’m not saying this to brag, but to prove that when you believe in yourself and the quality of your experience anything is possible. If you do not hire me because of my rates, the you aren’t the client for me. I think providers should raise their rates, because their ARE people willing to pay that price. Of course all my past clients will be grandfathered in at their current rates, but as far as new clients go... the circumstances leave us few to no other options. M4RN just got shut down and we have only a few platforms left to advertise on (which could also be going away soon).

Again, good luck with that. I am glad things are working out so well for you. So with all that coin coming in, I am sure you know that each and everyone of those coins has two sides.

[BlakeBenz]

Again, good luck with that. I am glad things are working out so well for you. So with all that coin coming in, I am sure you know that each and everyone of those coins has two sides.

 

This isnt my letter to clarify. This was written by retired porn star and self made millionaire Melina Mason, who now works as a successful mentor for high end escorts. She has a platform of about 22,000 escorts online and this letter has been marketed to all of us. She also offers private mentoring at a weekly rate, which I would highly reccomend to any providers reading this that are interested in learning how to make more money. I am personally not worried about this bill affecting me. However I know that many providers are not in my position, so I will help in any way I know how. These are my people and I am worried for them.

[+ OliverSaks]

So I will be placing a copy of this letter here. My rates are increasing as of May 1st and so are many other providers in Houston. I have received amazing responses. This letter is ALSO being shared by thousands of female escorts across the country. Many females have already raised their rates or removed the one hour option from their listings. Why not us as well? I hope you all decide to stand up for what you deserve and make this change with us. OUR BODIES. OUR CHOICE. Please feel free to copy and share to every provider you know as well.

 

 

Dear Fellow Providers,

 

 

This letter is in regards to the Rate Raise Movement of 2018 #RaiseTheRate2018. You may be aware of the effects FOSTA/SESTA has had on your business and peace of mind. I am requesting on the behalf of the entire adult industry and especially to providers in our city to raise your rate by at least $100 by May 1st.

 

 

 

This one act when done in unison by all providers across the country will bring higher quality clients, making your work environment safer AND more profitable. This is only possible if everyone does it. We must stand together in unison as sex-workers. If you can respond to this letter with a simple ‘yes’ you are committing to bettering the quality of your life and future.

 

 

 

Several years ago, $500 was considered to be low end for a providers hourly rate. The cost of living has gone up and the amount of providers has doubled in the recent years, driving prices down. This is NOT sustainable and will ultimately leave the industry in ruins. Now, with the limitations of FOSTA, finding safe clientele will be increasingly difficult. A universal rate raise is this only way to ensure survival at this point. The time to takeaction is NOW.

 

 

 

Here are some tips to help justify your price raise:

 

 

● Update your photos with higher quality images. If you don’t have immediate funds for this, go tomodelmayhem.com. Find a photographer that will do a trade shoot with you. That means they take your photos for free but can use the images forwhatever purpose they want.

 

● Consider revamping your website to showcaseyour personality including a blog.

 

● Replace your 1 hour option with a 90 minuteminimum.

 

● Build your social media presence to generate some buzz around your brand, but be aware that

 

sites like Instagram and Twitter are increasingly banning accounts that look like obvious

 

sex-workers.

 

● Work on self-care to boost your confidence level. Not only is it good for your mental and physical

 

health, but your clients will find your new found glow more attractive.

 

● Read the free Ebook on www.thecompleteguidetoescorting.com for moretips.

 

 

 

Know that we are as frustrated as you are with how difficult things have become. Even the most high end providers have been affected in someway by FOSTA/SESTA. It’s time to take a standand change the industry for the better. Please respond to this letter and forward it to your provider colleagues and post on social media to make a real change.

 

 

Please consider this letter as my promise to raise my rate come May 1st. Will you join us?

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Blake Benz

 

Your local provider and ally

I just don’t see this as a useful thing to do. I appreciate the thought, though.

 

“A universal rate raise is this only way to ensure survival at this point” ... what!? No way!

[BlakeBenz]

I just don’t see this as a useful thing to do. I appreciate the thought, though.

 

“A universal rate raise is this only way to ensure survival at this point” ... what!? No way!

 

You don’t believe that you deserve more pay now that you have fewer platforms to advertise on?! So when one advertizement gets slow, where will you post? Or will you go back to a square job? Start running specials? I’m good on all of that. I guess some of us have business owner minds and others do not... I don’t do this just to kill time.

 

I also would like to add that your business is suffering currently due to the state of our government... HOW is more money not going to be useful to you??

[MikeBiDude]

Sounds like:

[+ oldNbusted]

I don't think providers are interchangeable widgets, so I can see how this strategy will not be a good fit for every one.

[+ José Soplanucas]

Am I still in Earth, in the USA, in 2018, in the sane dimension?

Edited April 7, 2018 by latbear4blk

[BlakeBenz]

I don't think providers are interchangeable widgets, so I can see how this strategy will not be a good fit for every one.

 

So we are not all human who deserve to have a raise just like everyone else? I don’t see your point here. This will raise rates for everyone, not give one universal rate for everyone. Some will still be lower, some will be higher. I understand there is a difference in quality of providers but many people rely on the multiple platforms for different streams of income. I have seen posts on here about boys charging different rates on different platforms... why do you think that is? One ad gets slow so they are posting on another at a lower price to generate more revenue. This is not good for the self esteem, and now that it isn’t even an option any longer I truly feel a rate raise is absolutely necessary. I’m out here giving so many solutions for the crisis that we are going thru and it seems like all anyone wants to do is complain... I know first hand these methods work. Take my advice or leave it, but I guess we will see who is still standing at the end of it all.

[coriolis888]

So we are not all human who deserve to have a raise just like everyone else? I don’t see your point here.

 

 

Not many people get a 25% to 30% raise.

 

I would think since escort advertising is in jeopardy, there will be fewer clients reading the fewer ads that will be able to get to the market place. To increase escorts rates at this time, as you propose, could cause more harm than good. Also, escorts with "regulars" might lose those regulars if the escort suddenly decides to charge an extra hundred dollars, as you advise.

 

 

I’m out here giving so many solutions for the crisis that we are going thru and it seems like all anyone wants to do is complain... I know first hand these methods work. Take my advice or leave it, but I guess we will see who is still standing at the end of it all.

 

 

Clients and escorts will have to wait and see what happens after the shock settles in.

 

Fewer ads equal fewer readers, equals fewer clients. Raising the escort fee twenty-five or thirty percent could be a downfall for many escorts.

 

But, as you wrote, you "know first hand these methods work."

Edited April 7, 2018 by coriolis888

[+ OliverSaks]

So we are not all human who deserve to have a raise just like everyone else? I don’t see your point here. This will raise rates for everyone, not give one universal rate for everyone. Some will still be lower, some will be higher. I understand there is a difference in quality of providers but many people rely on the multiple platforms for different streams of income. I have seen posts on here about boys charging different rates on different platforms... why do you think that is? One ad gets slow so they are posting on another at a lower price to generate more revenue. This is not good for the self esteem, and now that it isn’t even an option any longer I truly feel a rate raise is absolutely necessary. I’m out here giving so many solutions for the crisis that we are going thru and it seems like all anyone wants to do is complain... I know first hand these methods work. Take my advice or leave it, but I guess we will see who is still standing at the end of it all.

So many solutions!? What are your other solutions? I would love to hear some

[BlakeBenz]

Not too many people get a 25% to 30% raise.

 

I would think since escort advertising is in jeopardy, there will be fewer clients reading the fewer ads that will be able to get to the market place. To increase escorts rates at this time, as you propose, could cause more harm than good. Also, escorts with "regulars" might lose those regulars if the escort suddenly decides to charge an extra hundred dollars, as you advise.

 

 

 

Clients and escorts will have to wait and see what happens after the shock settles in.

 

Fewer ads equal fewer readers, equals fewer clients. Raising the escort fee twenty-five or thirty percent could be a downfall for many escorts.

 

But, as you wrote, you "know first hand these methods work."

 

 

You’re assuming that all exsisting clients will be needing to pay more, false. Anytime I have raised my rates (several times) I always leave my exsisting clients at their original rate. New clients will pay the new rate. That’s standard business practice in the service industry. I also entirely disagree with you. Fewer platforms means fewer readers? That isn’t true at all. If anything it will be bringing us MORE traffic to RentMen because everyone will need somewhere to go... and also yes, most people don’t get a 30% raise because MOST PEOPLE ARENT SELLING THEIR BODIES FOR MONEY !!! Who would have thought?!

[BlakeBenz]

So many solutions!? What are your other solutions? I would love to hear some

You can go look at my other comments on the other threads. Take my advice or leave it babe, but a sour attitude will never attract you success.

[+ stevenkesslar]

She has a platform of about 22,000 escorts online and this letter has been marketed to all of us.

 

I'll tell you what I love about this. It's an act of resistance. I personally would call it nonpolitical resistance. And I won't make the mistake I did on a separate thread started by Blake, and try to pigeonhole him into any kind of overtly political stance. But whether this is political or not, it is 100 % resistance. And I love that about it.

 

Politics and resistance of course do not repeal the laws of economics. There is always an element of supply and demand in any pricing structure - even if it's just a lemonade stand. So how this works out in practice will likely vary for each escort.

 

But what won't vary is this. Presumably right now we're all supposed to just play Chicken Little and say "Oh, my God. The sky is falling! What will I ever do?" This runs directly in the face of that. You can all judge for yourself whether or not this is folly. But one thing it is definitely not is fear.

 

My guess from my personal experience of knowing and working with lots of escorts for 15+ years is that most escorts are not overtly political animals. They don't tend to gravitate toward lobbying, public meetings with legislators, and focusing on the steps involved in enactment of a bill like FOSTA. It is outside their experience. And in that sense, I'm just a freak.

 

But most escorts are entrepreneurs concerned about running their own small business. This appeals to that instinct or sensibility, which I'm pretty sure is more broadly shared than the kind of political radar I have, which preceded my escort career. To each his own.

 

I'm going to keep saying it's time to slow down and think. But one thing I know for sure is the best path is one of resistance, not submission. I like any effort that at core is designed to say, "Sorry, we ain't giving up, and we ain't going away." This is an effort by people who are saying just that: we ain't going away.

Edited April 7, 2018 by stevenkesslar

[+ oldNbusted]

So we are not all human who deserve to have a raise just like everyone else? I don’t see your point here. This will raise rates for everyone, not give one universal rate for everyone. Some will still be lower, some will be higher. I understand there is a difference in quality of providers but many people rely on the multiple platforms for different streams of income. I have seen posts on here about boys charging different rates on different platforms... why do you think that is? One ad gets slow so they are posting on another at a lower price to generate more revenue. This is not good for the self esteem, and now that it isn’t even an option any longer I truly feel a rate raise is absolutely necessary. I’m out here giving so many solutions for the crisis that we are going thru and it seems like all anyone wants to do is complain... I know first hand these methods work. Take my advice or leave it, but I guess we will see who is still standing at the end of it all.

 

I don't think it's necessary to resort to straw men, no one suggested providers are not human beings. But that has little to do with the economics. Higher risk means higher reward, that is how free markets work. But this isn't a situation of inelastic demand. Where do escorts place in Maslow's hierarchy? I expect demand might just cool off for a bit. In addition, and I didn't really want to put it so indelicately, but most of the providers I've met didn't justify the rates they were already charging. But to be clear, I would not call upon them again even if they lowered their rate because they didn't offer the experience I want. Most of that bunch have dropped out and I expect more will follow. Only two of them actually were what I would consider to be 'high end'. Those guys could raise their rates (I don't have a thing about being 'grandfathered in', providers are free to change as they please) and I would gladly meet them again. I think this actually fits into what you said about about how the strong will rise and the weak will fall.

 

I certainly can't refute the effectiveness of the strategies you mention, it's just that strategies have to be executed and not everyone is going to be able to do that, for a variety of reasons, and even if they do, it might just not work for them. To be clear I have no objections to the strategies themselves, I wouldn't be impacted by a 90 min minimum because my minimum is 2 hours. And as I implied above, if I'm getting the superlative experience I want, a rate increase is not an obstacle either. I was just making an observation about the business, nothing personal.

Edited April 7, 2018 by oldNbusted

[+ oldNbusted]

Politics and resistance of course do not repeal the laws of economics. There is always an element of supply and demand in any pricing structure - even if it's just a lemonade stand. So how this works out in practice will likely vary for each escort.

 

Pretty much what I was getting at, I was being abstruse.

[coriolis888]

 

This isnt my letter to clarify. This was written by retired porn star and self made millionaire Melina Mason, who now works as a successful mentor for high end escorts. She has a platform of about 22,000 escorts online and this letter has been markknow first hand these methods work.eted to all of us. She also offers private mentoring at a weekly rate, which I would highly recomend to any providers reading this that are interested in learning how to make more money.

 

 

Thanks for clarifying that you do not recommend that escorts charge 25% increases for existing clients.

 

 

 

I also entirely disagree with you. Fewer platforms means fewer readers? That isn’t true at all. If anything it will be bringing us MORE traffic to RentMen because everyone will need somewhere to go..

 

 

Yes, there will be fewer readers. That is simple logic and arithmetic. Already, there are fewer readers. Several escort sites have closed down. That already means fewer readers. Furthermore, many clients who formerly met escorts from those now closed sites do not know how to find where escorts are currently advertising.

 

You mentioned there will be more traffic on rentmen - Have you not noticed that the ads on rentmen have been markedly edited by rentmen to a point where there are no prices allowed and certain marketing language in an ad is restricted. There is also discussion about rentmen being blocked soon within the U.S. If that occurs, where will escorts go to find clients?

 

If rentmen is blocked, not all clients will bother to get a VPN to access rentmen, a site that has already been stripped of a lot of useful information about escorts.

 

I hope you are correct in your assertions. It would be nice if your predictions comes true. I have my doubts.

Edited April 7, 2018 by coriolis888

[biggerbilly]

I can’t tell anyone what to do, or what’s best for them. If someone thinks charging $5000 and hour is possible, go for it. I can only speak for my personal experience. And, as someone who has cut down on hiring because of the natural raise in rates, another increase in addition to decrease in sites is probably an end to my participation in this part of the economy.

[FTM Zachary Prince]

I’m not gonna raise my rates because I feel like I’m already ahead of the curve on this one. That said, my rate is already hundreds above average. I do agree with the premise of the letter and Blake’s sentiments tho.

 

Being an escort is risky work. We lack benefits and social support. We lack legal rights related to our work. We are often ostracised from family and community support because of what we do. Sometimes we can’t find lovers, or our lovers tokenise us because they find it “sexy” what we do for a living (a completely unsustainable dynamic in the long term). We do not charge $200 or $300 or $500 an hour because we EARN that much per hour. That is merely a BILLING rate for BILLABLE hours. Our work is comprised of SO much more that is necessary and also non-billable. The risks we take and the social consequences we face due to stigma can also not be assigned a dollar value. We deserve to be compensated more than we are. As much as we can manage to charge. Why should sexual professionals be making $20-30K per year when the clients we serve often make $50-100K per year? There’s absolutely no reason for any client to take on the attitude that we don’t deserve to increase billing rate from $200 to $300 per hour or whatever. That’s not a 33% increase in our wage. To claim so displays a distorted and naive view of economics.

 

Anyone who thinks demand is going to decrease with SESTA/FOSTA is very mistaken. We are not in an acute economic crisis, nor are clients being more heavily criminalised by this law. Clients will ALWAYS want sex as long as they have money. What’s decreasing is the SUPPLY in this case, the availability of escort ads. The demand is not going ANYWHERE. We have seen this pattern over and over again as various escort ad venues have been shut. Clients stick with their regulars and look for new ways to find escorts. Escorts who have their shit together and keep a mailing list or are constantly finding new ways to advertise are going to be fine.

 

But the loss of ad venues, review boards, and screening resources means more marketing expenses for us. More risk. More labor as we explore new ways to reach our client base. These are all the “non billable” aspects of pur labor. When we see our non-billable expenses increasing, why the hell wouldn’t we raise our rates for billable hours?? Literally any industry would do the same.

 

If you as a client can’t afford to book as often due to increased rates- here’s an idea: book less often. Here’s another idea: get a 2nd job. Make an investment into something income-generating so you can use the proceeds to supplement your escort budget. These are all things that people have to do when they participate in any expensive hobby on a limited budget.

 

The only reason that clients who shop RM think that rates higher than $250 or $300 are “ridiculous” is simply market norms. Once male escorts widely start to raise rates above these levels, the market will adjust. It’s common for female escorts to charge $500 and I promise you that frequent renters make the EXACT SAME comments on those boards implying that they will stop hiring or that the demand will drain out of the market due to the high rates. It hasn’t happened. The market adjusts as rates increase and escorts who charge higher rates continue to earn well in a lower volume business model.

 

I have been experimenting with offering $500/hr sessions, but my minimum was $1000 (or more) for two hours for years, and it continues to be my most often-booked session. Yes, I could see 20 clients a month for $200 each, or I could see 4 clients a month for $1000 each. Which business model do you think is more successful for me? Which business model do you think will suffer less in an era where all our advertising sites (including this website and RM) disappear?

[Guest RBmont-real]

FESTA/SESTA is part of a growing trend (the Nordic Model) to curtail the very real negative repercussions of commercial sex work by continuing to hold consumers and brokers legally accountable. In many countries ... Canada, Ireland, France, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Finland, criminal law is zeroing in more harshly on consumers as the real identifiable offenders.

 

In contrast, distributors (frontline providers) are increasingly indemnified as they are perceived to be the victims of social malaise. Providers who have not been trafficked or pimped, and with regular run-of-the-mill limits to other viable options, get to be corraled in to this subgroup. In the USA, one tradeoff for this privileged shift in culpability now seems to be some aggravating disruptions to free-press advertising. It may be premature to second-guess the long-term artefacts of these new restrictions.

 

But consumers as a group now bear the greater brunt of legal risk ... this amounts to a kind of inflation in tariff for those seeking services. So I am not snowed by this hasty money-grab disguised as second-rate Tony-Robbins-grade rhetoric about the hassles of the trade for workers or how escorts need to value themselves to uptick their appeal. Fire your mentor.

 

My last 2 dozen or so "dates" this past winter were with Brasilian fitness-gods averaging 50 USD a pop. You like apples?

[marylander1940]

I’m not gonna raise my rates because I feel like I’m already ahead of the curve on this one. That said, my rate is already hundreds above average. I do agree with the premise of the letter and Blake’s sentiments tho.

 

Being an escort is risky work. We lack benefits and social support. We lack legal rights related to our work. We are often ostracised from family and community support because of what we do. Sometimes we can’t find lovers, or our lovers tokenise us because they find it “sexy” what we do for a living (a completely unsustainable dynamic in the long term). We do not charge $200 or $300 or $500 an hour because we EARN that much per hour. That is merely a BILLING rate for BILLABLE hours. Our work is comprised of SO much more that is necessary and also non-billable. The risks we take and the social consequences we face due to stigma can also not be assigned a dollar value. We deserve to be compensated more than we are. As much as we can manage to charge. Why should sexual professionals be making $20-30K per year when the clients we serve often make $50-100K per year? There’s absolutely no reason for any client to take on the attitude that we don’t deserve to increase billing rate from $200 to $300 per hour or whatever. That’s not a 33% increase in our wage. To claim so displays a distorted and naive view of economics.

 

Anyone who thinks demand is going to decrease with SESTA/FOSTA is very mistaken. We are not in an acute economic crisis, nor are clients being more heavily criminalised by this law. Clients will ALWAYS want sex as long as they have money. What’s decreasing is the SUPPLY in this case, the availability of escort ads. The demand is not going ANYWHERE. We have seen this pattern over and over again as various escort ad venues have been shut. Clients stick with their regulars and look for new ways to find escorts. Escorts who have their shit together and keep a mailing list or are constantly finding new ways to advertise are going to be fine.

 

But the loss of ad venues, review boards, and screening resources means more marketing expenses for us. More risk. More labor as we explore new ways to reach our client base. These are all the “non billable” aspects of pur labor. When we see our non-billable expenses increasing, why the hell wouldn’t we raise our rates for billable hours?? Literally any industry would do the same.

 

If you as a client can’t afford to book as often due to increased rates- here’s an idea: book less often. Here’s another idea: get a 2nd job. Make an investment into something income-generating so you can use the proceeds to supplement your escort budget. These are all things that people have to do when they participate in any expensive hobby on a limited budget.

 

The only reason that clients who shop RM think that rates higher than $250 or $300 are “ridiculous” is simply market norms. Once male escorts widely start to raise rates above these levels, the market will adjust. It’s common for female escorts to charge $500 and I promise you that frequent renters make the EXACT SAME comments on those boards implying that they will stop hiring or that the demand will drain out of the market due to the high rates. It hasn’t happened. The market adjusts as rates increase and escorts who charge higher rates continue to earn well in a lower volume business model.

 

I have been experimenting with offering $500/hr sessions, but my minimum was $1000 (or more) for two hours for years, and it continues to be my most often-booked session. Yes, I could see 20 clients a month for $200 each, or I could see 4 clients a month for $1000 each. Which business model do you think is more successful for me? Which business model do you think will suffer less in an era where all our advertising sites (including this website and RM) disappear?

 

I agree with the "bold" part.

[FTM Zachary Prince]

I agree with the "bold" part.

 

I guess that’s really the most important and universal part! (Maybe I should hire you as my editor.)

[FTM Zachary Prince]

But consumers as a group now bear the greater brunt of legal risk ... this amounts to a kind of inflation in tariff for those seeking services. So I am not snowed by this hasty money-grab disguised as second-rate Tony-Robbins-grade rhetoric about the hassles of the trade for workers or how escorts need to value themselves to uptick their appeal. Fire your mentor.

 

LOL @ this entire inaccurate and revealing paragraph.

 

You write very well, but your analysis is distorted by your selfishness, or perhaps your privilege. Couldn’t really say without knowing more about you. If you’ve never been an escort, though, which is obvious from your unrealistic perspective, then you really have no place to speak so authoritatively on this subject.