what I’ve been trying to understand about the escort business for a very, very long time. When we visit an escort, the transaction is pretty simple in our mind. We give her money and she gives us sex. We leave feeling that we’ve taken nothing from her but her time. Is that true from her perspective or does she feel that she’s given us more, perhaps much more, than her time?
Your perceptions are a little off here:
What the escort "gives us" (er, rents us) amounts to HER Vulnerability. You do not have to have raunchy, sometimes-satisfying sex with her when you've hired her for an hour or a night. You only do so because it represents a finished product or a completed task of a sort in her mind.
Were your perceptions anywhere near accurate, working girls would have menus on the backs of their blouses, a la McDonalds:
BJ $80
HJ $65
Round the world $200
Half N Half $200
Greek $300
Golden Shower $400
Add $49 for PSE
Add $49 for GFE
Combo Meal includes PSE and GFE for just $80 extra
Then, upon payment, you would get the most impersonal, mechanical sex you could ever imagine.
So, with this in mind, Very Veronica:
(a) Called up a friend (asking) for help
(b) Agreed (with "Okay") to his (confusing) random generosity
(c) Continues to scold him for his having made himself vulnerable in front of her
When someone has an obscure tax question, he/she doesn't hesitate to phone his tax accountant friend.
When someone has electrical problems at home, he first contacts his friend who is an electrician for consultation or suggestions.
When someone tears a much-liked piece of clothing, he consults a friend who is a seamstress.
Yes, Veronica, we know what the definitions of friendship are, but exactly what do you give to this circle of friendship if your particular vocation is off-limits to your friends?
Until such time as when your guy friend forces your head into his lap, instead of "asking", it is time to be a better friend and stop berating him both in person ("he got all bent out of shape and left pouting") AND on a freaking internet message board !!!
When you are a tax accountant, you are sure to be deluged by requests from true friends for tiny tidbits of tax advice with no immediate expectation of remuneration. The friend who is rebuffed by a tax accountant has NOT made himself as vulnerable as did the friend who was rebuffed by VeryVeronica. She has and continues to insult him a great deal with this thread.
It is a safe bet that he would not have been "asking" you for sexual favors had you been an electrician, a librarian, or a welder, and although you cleverly didn't disclose it, we're all quite convinced that your friend *knows* what you do for a living.
Nobody anywhere could suggest that you were "obligated" to suck this guy's dick, but you have demonstrated that your response to him has been inappropriate from the first moment.