I am an accountant
$400,000/yr as an accountant? That’s pretty impressive.
I own my own firm. I have others do all the work, gives me time to get in trouble on the internet.
That makes more sense. 
How are gonna refrain in the future? I mean playing Angry birds during a slow day at work ain’t gonna cut it.
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I’m bemused by your bemusement.
This seems like a cartoonish characterization of addiction on your part. Especially considering your stance throughout this thread as one of dispelling stereotype and misconception, this stands out as telling to me. It also contrasts with your previous comments that many/most addicts are unremarkable people who, other than their regular use of heroin, are by and large indistinguishable from the average person.
This reminds me of something I’ve always passively wondered. Is the fee for one “time”, or is it for a certain amount of time? Like, is it once you’re done you’re done, or is it a thing where, if you could make it happen, you can do it several times in a half hour and still only pay once? (And if you can do that then good for you, kiddo.)
It depends on the individual provider. If they advertise “multiple pops”, that’s a sure sign that you can orgasm more than once in your alloted appointment time, assuming you are capable of more than a single orgasm. Even if it’s not specifically advertised, a provider haa the discretion to allow/disallow it on an individual basis.
You seem pretty knowledgeable about it for someone who’s so condescending toward the OP.
Ambivalid is correct.
I could never get more than 1 pop at my age unless I did an overnight but overnights are incredibly expensive.
Some girls would allow for multiple pops based on time you paid for and others probably just assumed once a guy came, the session was complete.
No, it doesn’t. The fact that many heroin users are not junkies does not mean that I am claiming that junkies do not exist. They do.
To put it in perspective, when I got into the business and started selling weed and shrooms, I was scared of the cops. When I started selling cocaine, I realized that I should be more scared of my competition than the cops. When I started selling heroin, I realized that I should be more scared of my clients than my competition and the cops put together. Some of the shit that went down while I was selling H gave me nightmares that lasted for a long time after the shit in question, and I’m a jaded ex-con who is not easily shaken. I had one of those horrific nightmares again last night, so to protect my mental health I’m now bowing out of this thread. Believe whatever you want.
My knowledge of the sex trade is what forms my attitude towards the OP. I would not describe it as condescending, not at all. Critical, not condescending.
Ok thanks.
Given that most of the sex work sites have shut down this week, I imagine that the OP’s fears of relapsing have been greatly assuaged.
Or has he saved a few phone numbers…just in case?
David,
I am curious what you were thinking about your wife during all this acting out? Did it change the way you viewed her when you’d have sex with these 20 yr old hot bodies and then go home to her who probably wrecked her hot body to give you a family? I am not trying to sound judgmental but can’t see how you wouldn’t compare the women. Do men compare or is this part of the compartmentalization that men do?
I think this is fairly accurate, based on studies I’ve seen from Australia, Switzerland, England and other societies where it’s legal.
I was actually surprised to read how many sex workers actually do ‘like’ what they do (which isn’t the same as ‘absolutely love it’, of course). This is from a review by Ronald Weitzer:
“Similarly, a study of indoor prostitutes (most of whom work in bars) in a Midwestern city in the United States found that three-quarters of them felt that their life had improved after entering prostitution (the remainder reported no change; none said it was worse than before); more than half said that they generally enjoy their work. In The Netherlands, three-quarters of indoor workers report that they enjoy their work. Research on 95 call girls in Sydney, Australia found that they were generally emotionally healthy. All of the escorts studied by Foltz took “pride in their profession” and viewed themselves as “morally superior” to others: “they consider women who are not ‘in the life’ to be throwing away woman’s major source of power and control [sexual capital], while they as prostitutes are using it to their own advantage as well as for the benefit of society.” And an Australian study found that half of call girls and brothel workers felt that their work as a “major source of satisfaction” in their lives, while 7 out of 10 said they would “definitely choose” this work if they had it to do over again. Other studies of indoor work report that the workers felt the job had at least some positive effect on their lives or believed that they were providing a valuable service.”
and this is from a recent survey of sex workers in England, commented on by Elizabeth Nolan Brown here:
"The “happy hooker” trope has taken a lot of flak. But job satisfaction was exceedingly high among sex workers surveyed here.
Nearly half—48 percent—said they’re satisfied with their working conditions and 34 percent were “very satisfied.” Slightly over half said they’re “enthusiastic” about their work most of the time, and another 21 percent said they were enthusiastic some of the time.
Nearly 82 percent either strongly agreed or tended to agree that they were well-paid for the work they did. And around 50 percent said their work was “socially useful” some or most of the time, with 22 percent saying it’s socially useful all of the time."
Agreed.
Quite a lot of people do find it fulfilling- I can furnish you other cites besides the two above, to that effect, from several different countries. I can also give you anecdotal accounts for whatever that’s worth, which is not much.
Literally, so much about the sex industry is counter-intuitive. Even as someone who would have been sort of knee-jerk anti-criminalisation since I first gave it any thought, when I actually began reading the research and talking to sex workers about it, I was surprised at how many of my assumptions were wrong.
This is why it’s so important for policy-makers to engage with current sex workers before passing legislation that’s supposed to “help” them. They need to hear what sex workers actually need to protect themselves, stay safe, leave the industry if they want to. Legislating based on their own assumptions and prejudices and pressure from people who won’t even be affected by the laws is what leads to horrorshows like FOSTA and SESTA, which are already causing *enormous *harm.