Response:
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.