Very interesting indeed, Very V!
And quite the
review of review boards.
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What do you think about escort review-board websites? Do you ever read them?
I’m not nearly as fractious as some claim I am on this issue. But okay… sit back, relax and I’ll begin my sermon. I will sum up escort review-board websites in one word – vacuous. Pointless denying it; escort review boards are a reality. And I accept them. That said, taking what is posted on an escort review board as gospel is like relying on the supermarket tabloids for your news. Escort review boards are degrading (especially to the uncouth individuals posting on them) and completely inappropriate. After all, we’re talking about “reviewing” (and I use that term very loosely) paid sexual encounters here – not automobiles, computers, barbecues, insurance policies or any other inanimate objects that can be objectively quantified, examined and reviewed. Common sense tells us that having sex with another human being is a highly subjective experience. One person’s experience with an escort may be markedly different than that of another person. There are a significant number of factors to consider – attitude, personality, chemistry, attraction, etc., etc., etc. The notion that any escort is going to perform the same way with every client is nothing short of insane. This is why I am so selective with regards to the clients I will make an appointment with. I want to ensure I am seeing people that I genuinely want to spend time with. Since I am in this line of work by choice, I can afford the luxury of making appointments only with the gentlemen I truly wish to see.
But to answer your question, no, I do not read escort review boards and I have found that most of my clientele doesn't either. Instead, they like to think for themselves. To be perfectly honest, the whole concept of review boards is quite humourous to me – a bunch of small-minded reprobates with a whole lot of time on their hands, thinking they're the Roger Ebert of the local escort scene, bragging about their paid sexual conquests. As if what they say or think of a girl matters or has some sort of significance or influence. You really have to pity them in a way – searching for the cheapest 20-minute incall escort whose need to pay her rent supercedes her concern for practicing safe sex.
Although I have heard from numerous people that the feedback about me (from clients who have actually had an appointment with me) has been very positive and quite flattering, I get the impression that review boards are for, the most part (but not exclusively – because there are good people everywhere – believe it or not, even on escort review boards), seemingly frustrated, immensely frugal men with very limited funds and a lot of free time. As a result, these soi-disant "hobbyists" need approval (and lots of it) from their penny-pinching peers before they part with their nominal amounts of discretionary income and make an appointment to see an escort. I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating; something as personal and delicate as seeing an escort (and the intricacies thereof) should certainly not be up for public discussion whatsoever.
Simply put, escort review-board websites lack credibility, integrity and, most important of all, honesty. Like so many aspects of the Internet, review boards can offer complete and total anonymity to those who post on them. As a result, people feel that they can further their agenda, spew their venom or say whatever lie they wish without fear or repercussion. And for the most part, that’s entirely true. What you end up having is total bias being masked as complete objectivity. More often than not these escort review-board websites consist of the following:
1. ESCORT AGENCIES (disguised as many different actual clients) posting bogus, negative reviews about an independent escort in an effort to hurt that independent escort’s business and reputation. These same agencies will also attempt to lure perspective clients to their agency by posting glowing, fictitious reviews about their own girls.
2. ESCORTS (disguised as many different actual clients) posting bogus, negative reviews about other escorts that they feel threaten their business.
3. ESCORTS (disguised as many different actual clients) posting bogus, amazing reviews about themselves to help attract business for themselves.
4. DISGRUNTLED REVIEW-BOARD POSTERS (disguised as many different actual clients) who have never even seen the escort they are supposedly writing about, posting numerous bogus, unflattering comments and/or fictitious, negative reviews because they are jealous and angry that they can’t afford the escort’s fee or because the escort in question is tremendously selective with whom she sees and, as a result, she refuses to see these particular individuals.
5. TERMINATED FORMER CLIENTS who have been “cut off” for whatever reason and the escort will no longer make appointments to see them. These review-board posters attempt to destroy the escort’s reputation by posting untrue statements and bogus, negative reviews in retaliation for no longer being able to make appointments with the escort.
NOTE: It is very easy for an individual to appear to be many distinctly different people on a review-board website, without being traced. Certain review-board “contributors” post their comments disguised or heavily camouflaged, often using pseudonyms, anonymous mail servers, different IP addresses and multiple email addresses. Operating from a position of total anonymity and cowardice, these individuals can launch vicious attacks with little fear of reprisals.
It should also be noted that numerous escort-review board websites are, in fact, owned, managed and/or moderated by escorts, escort-agency owners or individuals attempting to promote their own business/sexual interests, influence escort prices downward and/or to gain free (or at least deeply discounted) sexual services. Complete objectivity, legitimacy, honesty, and credibility? Nothing, but nothing, could be further from the truth!
From what I understand, any girl who charges a premium for her time is usually bombarded with criticisms and insults on these websites. Apparently most of the guys who write less than favourable things about the more expensive escorts (for example, escorts who charge over $300.00 per hour in the Greater Toronto Area) have never even seen said escorts in the first place. This resentment and jealousy is parlayed into bogus, negative reviews and outright libelous personal attacks. For example, bitter, disgruntled individuals (either people who can not afford my fee, people I will not see, competing escorts or escort agencies) have been known to post completely false reviews and/or statements about me, such as, “Raquel's a bitch, she's not worth the money, she has an attitude, she's not good looking, she's arrogant, other girls are way, way better,” and so on and so on and so on. I understand these sort of punitive attacks come with the territory. And that’s okay; it’s the league I play in. But I have to laugh at the so-called “honest” escort review-board posters who claim to have seen me when I supposedly toured their city (I have never toured), claim that I offered “extras” (i.e. Greek) for a nominal additional fee (never have, never will) or the posters who claim to have seen me, but the “nightmare of an appointment with that bitch Raquel was a gift, so what the hell, I wasn’t paying for it” – claiming that the hell-on-earth appointment with me was booked through a third party (again, something I’ve never done and never will do). Anyone with half a brain can easily see through these lies for what they really are - desperate attempts to undermine my popularity.
Girls in my echelon are often ridiculed for our price and/or because we are very particular and selective about whom we see. Of course, the less expensive girls (or girls with no sexual boundaries or who do not practice safe sex) are hailed as goddesses. And that is fine. Again, everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. But if someone felt the need to consult with a review board before making an appointment with me, he is definitely not the kind of person I would wish to see.