At what age is a woman really old enough to decide to become an SP?

[Cami Parker]

I often wonder how old a lady should be when deciding she would like to be an SP. I ask this because I often think of when I worked in a legal brothel in Nevada and done of the funny rules. For example, every "ranch" as they're called has a bar in it. You must be 21 years old in the United States to drink alcohol, but 18 to work in a brothel. Therefore if you were between the ages of 18-20, you were mature enough to decide to sell your "services" there, but not allowed to stand within 3 feet of the bar because you're certainly not mature enough to decide to have a glass of wine. Or the local girls that would literally come work at the ranches as their "after school jobs" in high school, because they're 18, so that's perfectly acceptable. So many strange examples...
Does this sound messed up to anybody besides me? Lol

 

[UhOh]

Sounds messed up to me also. Regret can be a hell of a thing to live with

 

[a_lee_n]

When it comes to liberty, the age of majority should allow anyone to drink or work in a brothel (in the case of Nevada).

 

[Lee Marvin]

Ironically they're better off choosing sex work at 18 if they're kept away from alchohol. Give the eighteen year old alcohol and their judgement is suspect enough that they shouldn't be allowed in a brothel.
So, maybe that aspect of the two different age restrictions makes sense.

 

[johnsmit]

There really is no sense in any of it
At 18 she may of allready been having sex for 3 or 4 yrs..and using illegal drugs..and drinking .Just could not legally get a drink at a bar but I am sure they have been in a bar and got drunk.

So none of it makes sense.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Like many things in life age is just a number and it is more important for the individual to be psychologically mature enough to deal with all the pressures a lady in this profession has to as well as being mature and sensible enough to handle her money, etc.
Sure, law makers need to apply arbitrary age limits on things such a legal drinking age or driver licensing because it would be impossible to do otherwise.
I know a few 16 year old's who would cast a much more informed ballot at voting time than many of the 50 year old's I know but the legal voting age is still 18.

 

[Lo-ki]

Some SP's I know whished they would have started in their 20s. They would be retired by now.

 

[badbadboy]

I often wonder how old a lady should be when deciding she would like to be an SP. I ask this because I often think of when I worked in a legal brothel in Nevada and done of the funny rules. For example, every "ranch" as they're called has a bar in it. You must be 21 years old in the United States to drink alcohol, but 18 to work in a brothel. Therefore if you were between the ages of 18-20, you were mature enough to decide to sell your "services" there, but not allowed to stand within 3 feet of the bar because you're certainly not mature enough to decide to have a glass of wine. Or the local girls that would literally come work at the ranches as their "after school jobs" in high school, because they're 18, so that's perfectly acceptable. So many strange examples...
Does this sound messed up to anybody besides me? Lol

The same analogy applies to young people who join up in the Armed Services. They can legally kill someone at age 18 in a war situation but they can not go into a bar with the others on their squad who are over 21.

I think society as a whole needs to be more modernistic about the approach to alcohol. Perhaps the Europeans have more liberal approach to alcohol and as far as I have researched, their stats don't show they have a teenage drinking problem vs North Americans.

I recall being in the UK as a kid and going to a neighbourhood pub. If I recall correctly, 16 year olds were permitted to have a pint while with their families. To go to the pub on their own they had to be 18.

 

[PlayfulAlex]

Some SP's I know whished they would have started in their 20s. They would be retired by now.

I often wondered how my life would have been different, had I started earlier. But, by starting at 40, I came in with a tremendous amount of business acumen, so it was easy to transfer all those previous skills to this venue. Not to say there wasn't a learning curve, there sure was.

To answer the original question, I know that the younger ladies have a particular popularity with the fellas, but the more mature one is, the better she can handle herself. So it's not as much about age, as it is about maturity and common sense. Also, how this period of her life affects her future career aspirations will be reflected in her maturity.

 

[Insatiable Appetite]

just a note on alcohol and the age of consent.....
Adolescents brains are still developing into their early 20's. Postponing drinking as long as possible is beneficial physically though it may impede social learning.

Driving is the same sort of thing. A 16 year old lacks the true maturity and wherewithal to drive safely. Statistics prove this. An adolescent has a much better chance of not getting into an accident early if they delay the beginning of their driving career.

When one can either legally or physically is not an argument as to whether of not one should.

 

[Cami Parker]

I agree... The decision making part of your brain doesn't develop until 25..

just a note on alcohol and the age of consent.....
Adolescents brains are still developing into their early 20's. Postponing drinking as long as possible is beneficial physically though it may impede social learning.

Driving is the same sort of thing. A 16 year old lacks the true maturity and wherewithal to drive safely. Statistics prove this. An adolescent has a much better chance of not getting into an accident early if they delay the beginning of their driving career.

When one can either legally or physically is not an argument as to whether of not one should.

 

[Lo-ki]

I agree... The decision making part of your brain doesn't develop until 25..

BUT BUT BUT I remember getting a hard on way before 25.....
OH WAIT wrong brain..

 

[Athenalust]

Cami I have to agree with you completely with your comments. I also believe even though some wouldn't agree at ages 18-23 your still way to easy to convience to do something, whether it be right or wong, or something you would normally not do!

 

[Tugela]

just a note on alcohol and the age of consent.....
Adolescents brains are still developing into their early 20's. Postponing drinking as long as possible is beneficial physically though it may impede social learning.

Driving is the same sort of thing. A 16 year old lacks the true maturity and wherewithal to drive safely. Statistics prove this. An adolescent has a much better chance of not getting into an accident early if they delay the beginning of their driving career.

When one can either legally or physically is not an argument as to whether of not one should.

The vast majority of that development takes place the first few years after puberty however, it starts at around age 12-13, and tapers off after that. By the time they are 18 it is mostly done, and they are already the people they will be for the rest of their lives, and are certainly capable of making informed decisions at that age.

Restrictions on when exactly people can or can't go to bars are purely social and have nothing to biology.

Higher rates of accidents among teenagers has more to do with the delay society imposes on the expectation of responsibility. We treat teenagers as children when they have long ceased to be children, and then wonder why they don't act responsibly. By creating coddling conditions (and school plays a large part in this btw) where responsibility is not expected, we effectively delay the sorts of life lessons that people would normally learn through experience. And then suddenly when they reach a certain age we expect them to be adults, and wonder why they have not learned the proper lessons yet. Which in turn people use as "evidence" that young adults should be treated as children even longer and so on.

 

[meaghanmcleodDELETED]

The vast majority of that development takes place the first few years after puberty however, it starts at around age 12-13, and tapers off after that. By the time they are 18 it is mostly done, and they are already the people they will be for the rest of their lives, and are certainly capable of making informed decisions at that age.

Restrictions on when exactly people can or can't go to bars are purely social and have nothing to biology.

Higher rates of accidents among teenagers has more to do with the delay society imposes on the expectation of responsibility. We treat teenagers as children when they have long ceased to be children, and then wonder why they don't act responsibly. By creating coddling conditions (and school plays a large part in this btw) where responsibility is not expected, we effectively delay the sorts of life lessons that people would normally learn through experience. And then suddenly when they reach a certain age we expect them to be adults, and wonder why they have not learned the proper lessons yet. Which in turn people use as "evidence" that young adults should be treated as children even longer and so on.

Mostly done, but the important final development has not finished until the mid 20's or even the 30's.

The fact that our brains aren’t developed until the mid 20s means that “legal adults” (those age 18+) are allowed to make adult decisions, without fully mature brains. Someone who is 18 may make riskier decisions than someone in their mid-20s in part due to lack of experience, but primarily due to an underdeveloped brain. All behaviors and experiences you endure until the age of 25 have potential to impact your developing brain.

http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-brain-fully-developed/

 

[sdw]

Mostly done, but the important final development has not finished until the mid 20's or even the 30's.

The fact that our brains aren’t developed until the mid 20s means that “legal adults” (those age 18+) are allowed to make adult decisions, without fully mature brains. Someone who is 18 may make riskier decisions than someone in their mid-20s in part due to lack of experience, but primarily due to an underdeveloped brain. All behaviors and experiences you endure until the age of 25 have potential to impact your developing brain.

http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-brain-fully-developed/

I think Tugela is probably correct that a person isn't going to have any more growth in brain capacity, but, an older person has experience to draw on. That experience makes them "smarter" than they were at 18. I don't think people "know who they are" until they are in their late 20s, early 30s. That's when experience and education join to set the adult person. Many people don't "know who they are" until they have finished with college/university and started working at more than pouring customer's coffee.

Where I think Tugela is wrong is his idea that we "coddle" our children too much. Our expectations of our children are different from when "adult" meant strong enough to guide the plow behind the Ox. We also now know that extreme events do more damage to a young person than they do to an older person. PTSD was ignored after WWI and WWII, when your Grandparents tell the stories of how their parents raised them, they are telling the truth. An entire generation was suffering from PTSD with no treatment.

Most parents don't want their child to be emotionally crippled, so they protect them.

 

[Insatiable Appetite]

I think Tugela is probably correct that a person isn't going to have any more growth in brain capacity, but, an older person has experience to draw on. That experience makes them "smarter" than they were at 18. I don't think people "know who they are" until they are in their late 20s, early 30s. That's when experience and education join to set the adult person. Many people don't "know who they are" until they have finished with college/university and started working at more than pouring customer's coffee.

hence some of the retarded tattoos you see on kids these days :nod:

 

[FunSugarDaddy]

Mostly done, but the important final development has not finished until the mid 20's or even the 30's.

The fact that our brains aren’t developed until the mid 20s means that “legal adults” (those age 18+) are allowed to make adult decisions, without fully mature brains. Someone who is 18 may make riskier decisions than someone in their mid-20s in part due to lack of experience, but primarily due to an underdeveloped brain. All behaviors and experiences you endure until the age of 25 have potential to impact your developing brain.

http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-brain-fully-developed/

Honest to god I think age is a red herring. Yes, I think there has to be a minimum age to consent to this activity, and yes, I think there should be a minimum age for drinking, but let's not pretend there's a direct correlation between age and judgement or age and intelligence because that's never been my experience. If you are reasonably intelligent than I assume you have the ability to learn from your mistakes and learn from either reading, what your parents have told you etc. Over and above that, I would assume you would have the capacity to learn from just being alive. But not many, if any, ever learn or absorb life's lessons at the same rate. I consider myself reasonably intelligent, I was lucky enough to survive my youth, get a university degree, start my own business, get married and have a child, but that doesn't mean an SP who chooses a particular path in live is either smarter or less intelligent than I am, it merely means she was presented with options that I wasn't. As to the brain development theory, while I haven't yet read it, I think your brain should develop until about 40 at which time, I think issues such as memory, etc. start to impede the brains ability to absorb information. FWIW, that's my take on this without reading any studies, which admittedly could alter my perception of this.

Note: After reading this study, I actually think that your brain, and your ability to learn, is somewhat like bell curve, in that it peaks at a certain point, say mid 30's, and then slowly deteriorates due to the aging process. As possibly a complete aside, the one thing I have noticed is that practically all musicians do their best work in their early to late 20's, from the Beatles, Stones, the Who, etc.

 

[clu]

The vast majority of that development takes place the first few years after puberty however, it starts at around age 12-13, and tapers off after that. By the time they are 18 it is mostly done, and they are already the people they will be for the rest of their lives, and are certainly capable of making informed decisions at that age.

Restrictions on when exactly people can or can't go to bars are purely social and have nothing to biology.

Higher rates of accidents among teenagers has more to do with the delay society imposes on the expectation of responsibility. We treat teenagers as children when they have long ceased to be children, and then wonder why they don't act responsibly. By creating coddling conditions (and school plays a large part in this btw) where responsibility is not expected, we effectively delay the sorts of life lessons that people would normally learn through experience. And then suddenly when they reach a certain age we expect them to be adults, and wonder why they have not learned the proper lessons yet. Which in turn people use as "evidence" that young adults should be treated as children even longer and so on.

The process of frontal lobe myelination isn't complete until the mid 20s, and until then reasoning skills are not at their peak. Impulse control is thus not optimal either. You can certainly debate how much that contributes in practice, but there is a legit physiological justification behind the premise that people haven't fully matured until their mid 20s.

 

[sevenofnine]

yeah its kind of stupid in the great U.S. of A
you can go to war and kill and be killed but shit you can't have a drink, or as in the case of a sex worker same thing,

my sp made the comment once mid twenties a girl should be able to start. I think that is what the sentiment of the thread is as well.


From a guys perspective or an old man's any way, there kids, I mean I look at some one eighteen twenty, there just kids. The law says there legal, but they sure as hell don't act it and look it.

perhaps another point of view you shouldn't be allowed to do anything until your sixty plus. at that age you have earned the right to and well you don't pretty much give a dam what any one else thinks.
that is kind of the way I look at it, maybe its wrong, but shit I have lived enough to make that choice,