Luxxxe Affaire

A question for long time SW's and Pooners..

harrington

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As a fairly new pooner, I am quite fascinated with this industry. The selection of SW's out there are enormous: streets, privates, MP's, etc... and there are so many avenues to market those services: Georgia Straight, online, newspapers, etc.. I am sure there are both advantages and drawbacks to this compared to the way it was before.

My question is this:
- do you think the industry was better or worse..say 10 years ago than it is today and why?

Feel free to draw upon examples and your reasons..
 

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While I have never worked in an MP or as an SW

I have been here long enough to see what a difference the internet has made for myself - and I imagine other independent ladies. The online adult boom was just beginning when I began in this field, but at the time, I wasn't tech savy enough to utilize it. So I have seen both sides of the coin.

This can be very isolating work. Even for those of us fortunate to have been able to tell our family and friends. They still don't want to hear about the details of our day - nor should we disclose many things due to discretion. We have no real co workers, nobody to confide in, share our day with, our happy times or our fears. And then the internet came along. Online communities such as this one which show us how prevelant and widespread the adult industry is. We are not alone. Knowing we are here in such numbers is of itself somewhat comforting.

Ladies only boards allow us to discuss both client and personal issues which are unique to us. For the first time we are really able to communicate openly and honestly with others who know exactly what we are going through. We garnish strength and advice from vetrans who have been where we are, and are able to provide some in return for those ladies who are now where we were a short time ago. We can back channel pertinant information regarding our safety, and are able to forge some very real friendships.

Personal websites are another brilliant innovation. My website provides a very accurate representation of who I am. As a result, the number of wonderful matches has increased significantly. With a 4 sentence newspaper ad, and a 5 minute conversation things were really hit and miss. Now a gentleman has the ability to get to know me before initiating contact, and he has a very good idea of what he can expect, and what I am expecting in return. You are able to make an informed decision as to whom you may want to see, and we can accuratly project who we are to ensure we attract the right men for us.

I don't know how the ladies done this prior to the internet. I'm quite certain I wouln't have lasted nearly this long had things remained as they were when I began.
 

rockyy

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Lady Companion said:
Ladies only boards allow us to discuss ... personal issues which are unique to us.....
I´m dying to know what those are....
 

hitrack

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When it comes to SW's it was definately beter 10 years ago.

When I first started the net was a easy place to look for chicks, but resources were still limited.

alt.binaries.prostitution on usenet was my main place for info, it was a poormans PERB. Only problem is it wasn't local enough. Somebody posted about hollywood north and that was the only place I looked for SP's during my short run of using SP's.

One other forum I jumped to, and the layout was absolutely the lamest I'd ever seen and still is. After repeated posts to get normal forum software I left.

Came here and liked what I saw. I just hung out in the review area as I was to chicken-shit to participate in the lounge. Obviously I finally did. :D
 

rockyy

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Annalise Lane said:
I'd like to know where this ladies board is... I keep hearing about it but still nothing?
Noooooooooooooo...I mean I´m dying to hear what your personal issues are....
 

lenny

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harrington said:
As a fairly new pooner, I am quite fascinated with this industry. The selection of SW's out there are enormous: streets, privates, MP's, etc... and there are so many avenues to market those services: Georgia Straight, online, newspapers, etc.. I am sure there are both advantages and drawbacks to this compared to the way it was before.
Did you mean SP's instead of SWs?

SWs means Street Walkers

SPs means Service Providers

SWs refers to SPs who work & walk the streets

SPs includes SW's and privates, MP's, etc
 

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Annalise Lane said:
I'd like to know where this ladies board is... I keep hearing about it but still nothing....................
It is alive and well. :) Surprised they haven't offered you a key too. Who did you annoy along the way? Not part of the Ya Ya S? :confused:
 

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I haven't been in the street game that long only about a year and half off and on! And even since I started I have noticed that there is alot more drug addicts! Last summer there was some high track girls from kingsway working down on franklin because the cops bothered them less down there. Beautiful girls long legs blond hair there was a good 3-4 dress to the nines. I haven't seem any of those girls once this summer down there! But tons of crackhead! And it makes it harder to break. When a date sees a bunch of ppl standing not far from you they are weery on stoping! Franklin has been very busy wiht drug dealers and their clients lately.
 

harrington

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lenny said:
Did you mean SP's instead of SWs?

SWs means Street Walkers

SPs means Service Providers

SWs refers to SPs who work & walk the streets

SPs includes SW's and privates, MP's, etc
Yes..sorry, I did mean SP's.
 

RobBC

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harrington said:
My question is this:
- do you think the industry was better or worse..say 10 years ago than it is today and why?
Firstly I'll preface this with the fact that I'm only going to be talking about SP's, as I never frequented (then or now) the SW scene.

To answer your question, not sure if I'd say either way, as there's pros/cons for both now as well as the past. Nowadays (as others have pointed out) we have boards like perb to get an idea of what kind of service a girl offers, and this simply did not exist at all 10 years ago.

OTOH, 10 years ago I could get a half/half incall session for $80 instead of $160-200+ like it is in Vancouver nowadays. Rates are *much* higher now than they used to be.

OTOH, I'd say on the whole service is better than it used to be (although this could simply be a result of having more information when selecting a companion).

It seems to me too there's more selection now than their used to be. I can remember when the only place to find ads was a local newspaper which had maybe 20 ads a week. Now there's the Buy & Sell with a rather large classified section, the province, the georgia straight, all the online websites, etc, etc.

So by in large I guess things are better now, but the lack of lower-cost options is something that is a definite downside from days past. It seems to me many girls are aiming at a more "upscale" clientele (which is fine, more power to 'em), which can leave "budget pooners" left out a bit.

RobBC
 

wolverine

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Just to reiterate a common theme:
- SW scene has been all but dead in E-town since 10 years ago.
- escorts and MPs are more popular than ever, and the bar keeps getting raised re: L/A/S
- the emergence of boards like this are a godsend. 10 years ago, you were on your own and more vulnerable to ripoffs and scams. Since neither the BBB nor the local consumer-advocate reporters on TV cover the SP industry, it's up to us to inform each other on who to see, who to avoid, who's retiring, who's on the move, who's visiting from where, etc. And the reviews have obviously helped boost (or kill) the business of many SPs. Plus thanks to this board, I've made some good friends amongst like-minded people.
 
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There is no doubt about it that this business has gone downhill in the last ten years. In my opinion its almost difficult to actually safely make the kinda coin we are accustomed to anymore. Ten years ago there were 30-50 girls on track and twice as many inside and they were all working constantly and without too many hassles or dangers. I can remember when the clients were many.
 

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harrington said:
As a fairly new pooner, I am quite fascinated with this industry. The selection of SW's out there are enormous: streets, privates, MP's, etc... and there are so many avenues to market those services: Georgia Straight, online, newspapers, etc.. I am sure there are both advantages and drawbacks to this compared to the way it was before.

My question is this:
- do you think the industry was better or worse..say 10 years ago than it is today and why?

Feel free to draw upon examples and your reasons..

Well a person would have to be blind to believe that the prostitution business isn't expontentially better in 2005 than it was in 1995 for the obvious reason of the evolution of the internet.

Just because what you see and know in front of you doesn't seem to be "better", that doesn't speak for the trillions of online encounters which include arranged acts of prostitution.

True I might rather be viewing the sights in front of the Georgia Hotel 20 years ago than viewing what's out there today, but the convenience of the internet for the purposes of prostitution far outweighs those memories (and the mammaries contained there in.)

As for costs, with the inflationary rise in the price of a higher class street walker, has come a giant window of opportunity for thousands of other women to step in and fill the economic ladder from the $10 crack ho's all the way up to the $500 high track girls.

These days it is a buyers market, and you can find someone to unzip your pants regardless of budget.

The internet has given rise to significant ease for making repeat arrangements as well as gaining an important sense of a particular girl beFORE you make that initial appointment. Where else during Vancouver history could you have that on a regular basis?

Life in 1983 was enjoyable when simply out cruising downtown for a working girl you could afford, and after surveying all of the eye candy, selecting a woman for a trip to that old hotel in Chinatown. Today's comparison must include the research time spent on PERB which allows complete safety from the law and the comforts of your own home and no need to pay $1 a litre for gas.

Today's working prostitutes can be safer, because of the internet and its trappings, and for that reason they are more plentiful and that makes for a healthy buyer's market.

Case closed.
 

lenny

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harrington said:
My question is this:
- do you think the industry was better or worse..say 10 years ago than it is today and why?

Feel free to draw upon examples and your reasons..
It is the same...cuz the high track girls are still there
looking as hot as ever...
 
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