okay because people on escort twitter are *drastically* misunderstanding my actual claims, here's a thread of more details of what i think about escort economics 1/
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I think it's likely that raising prices means higher quality of clients! a) i personally found my client quality increased drastically as i raised prices, and b) i did a survey where girls who charged higher prices reported lower rates of bad things 2/
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this does NOT mean a guarantee that all high payers will be respectful! It's only an increase in chance. This makes sense to me - men who don't respect escorts are more willing to push down really hard in price cause they dont think they're deserving of money 3/
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And I do think most escort marketing is suboptimal! This makes sense in a market where the competition is invisible and you can't see which escorts are very successful (even high rates might mean rare appts). 4/
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There's three main things that determine type of client you get - marketing, screening, and rates. I think screening is good and necessary no matter how good your marketing and rates are doing filtering. I'm not saying don't do screening! 5/
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And as I said above, higher rates are good - you get to work fewer hours for more money, and you're pricing out the hobbyist type of guy who is forever hunting for the best deal. Those guys don't respect you. 6/
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Rates and screening are what you use to narrow the pool to what you want - but if you're optimizing for making the most amount of money safely, you should be using marketing to attract the widest amount of people in your preferred demographic. 7/
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It's a bit funny cause my guess is some of the pushback on me saying high rates are good is that ppl don't want to seem classist - "rich people aren't better". But most escort marketing is in itself deeply classist - high education, travel, culture - all class filtering! 8/
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If you're selecting from a pool of safe (screened), wealthy (high rates) men, then requiring them to be high class feels like a suboptimal move to me. I have had wonderful clients I treasured deeply who came from a low class background - just like I did! 9/
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(And again, to be clear, all of this is operating in tendencies, probabilities, trends. I'm not saying anything is a guarantee or that you will *never* have a bad time if you screen.)
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My guess is that escorts (not all escorts! this might not be about you personally who's reading this) push so hard on the high-class, low-authenticity signaling because they are trying to fight against the cultural image of sex workers as trashy. 11/
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Escorts advertise the *exact opposite* of the old trope of street walkers; "I'm educated," they say. "I dress high class, I am successful in my life." It's along the feminine axis, too - the "feminine failure" concept to the "feminine success" concept. Romance novel vibes.
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I get the general urge, I see why it's there, but I think there's always room to improve. do you really think there's no genuine way to send a novel message that will really make the interest in you skyrocket, thus letting you be more selective and make more money?
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I don't get the hostility to me here; I don't mind if you disagree! We can talk about different theories and you can bring up different evidence. I don't understand why people are insulting me so much and saying I'm terrible for holding these beliefs. some subcultures are weird.
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