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People often ask me why I
decided to work in a parlour rather than working as an indie escort.
People usually ask me this because they have a preconceived image of
parlours and private flats which includes the following misconceptions:
1] All parlours are squalid
slums that have no washing facilities.
2] All parlours are owned by
nasty wicked exploiters of women who pressurise the staff into working in
unsafe ways and take 50% or more of whatever the girl earns.
3] Women who work under
these conditions have low self-esteem or no intelligence or they wouldn’t
be exploited and abused in this way.
Well yes it’s got to be said
that there are some parlours that do fit into that criteria. I can’t deny
it and I’m personally grateful that when I decided to become a prostitute
I picked an ad in the paper for a parlour run by a very good business
woman who had worked herself and who not only made a great deal of money
for herself but helped her girls do the same without exploiting them. If
anything it was the other way round. She actually helped many girls with
problems at her own expense, and without expecting any repayment. But I
digress……
Back in 97 there was no big
escorting community on line. I had no experience in the sex trade and
wasn’t aware of any girls working independently. The only way I knew of
working was either the streets [too dangerous and cold] or in a
sauna/parlour. So I called one of the ads in the local paper and set up
an interview and the rest is history as they say.
I stayed with the same woman
for 9 months. She had 4 different places to work and I rotated round all
of them doing a day in each once a week. I earned more money that I ever
dreamt of. This was after I’d paid the house split of 50% plus a tip for
the maid, and any essentials I needed such as condoms and clothes to work
with. And had no worries about paying the bills for a flat to work from,
getting a maid, arranging bookings, getting closed down. What I did have
was a very steady stream of punters who know where I was and when I would
be there and how much they needed to bring for a good time. I was a very
happy bunny .
After a while my boss and me
had a little disagreement and we parted company. I needed to continue
working to support my family. So I worked round other places in the area.
Most of which were in a disgusting state [dirty bedding, rotten bathroom
etc etc] or the owners were into drugs [personal no go area for me] or
they simply appeared to have no idea of how to run a place like a
business. Which all effected how much I could earn. My attitude then is
the same as it is today. If you’re going to make the sacrifices involved
in doing this job then at least make sure it’s worthwhile. Make the most
you can in a way that doesn’t mean you lose your self-respect. So there’s
no point in me spending 12 hours a day in a run down hovel where punters
won’t want to lay on the bed.
I realised that my standards
as to working premises might be a tad higher than the area was used to. So
I ended up doing a couple weeks in a flat that belonged to woman who was
at least clean. If not very business minded. But I solved that problem by
placing my own ads and the work came in. It didn’t last long. We had a
row over the maid who was an evil cow and stirred up trouble whenever she
could. So I left and took a couple of weeks out before finding somewhere
else to work from. Which was a good thing as the woman who owned the flat
called me and offered me the tenancy for her flat, she was running at a
loss and decided to get out of the biz.
At first I intended to work
it myself with no other girls involved. But after a while girls started
to approach me asking for work. It was known to be a busy flat and I was
known as a fair person in the biz so word got round and some girls took a
chance and got in touch. As I was working five or six days a week at the
time to keep the hours regular [important for business] I decided that I
could do with some time off to spend with my kids. Obviously while someone
else was using the flat I couldn’t earn my money. So a split was taken to
cover the expenses of running the place and to hopefully replace my lost
earnings. Which is how I started to run a parlour.
I made sure that I treated
the girls as fairly as possible. The house supplies everything they need
to work. No unsafe or high-risk services are provided by any girls. An
outreach team calls in regularly to give the girls the chance to speak
with them about any worries. And everyone is encouraged to offer services
they feel happy to offer. No pressure is ever put on anyone to do more
than they want to do. And I make sure I never ask anyone to do anything I
wouldn’t do myself. And there are regular bonuses for the girls so they
benefit from working hard. Not me. Most of the profits left over from our
running expenses are put back into the house. New bedding, redecorating,
uniforms, etc which all make it an attractive place to punters. Thereby
increasing trade for the girls. I’m very proud that I still have one of
the first girls to ever work with me as a member of staff. She doesn’t
work anywhere else. Most of the girls have been with me for over a year.
The average stay for girls in parlours is a month or two. I must be doing
something right I think
J
Despite popular myth I’m not
getting rich by running a parlour. I don’t want if I’m honest. I do want
to show the rest of the trade that you can run a successful place and keep
busy when you don’t try to force the girls to do all services. Which
seems to have gotten across already as several places near by have also
now stopped offering any without services. And that you don’t need to be
an ogre and scare the girls into respecting you, and that they actually
work better if you don’t take the iron fist approach. I know I won’t
change the world. It would be madness to try to but I do think I might
change one or two peoples perceptions of prostitution and how to treat the
girls in the vice scene. Which will be good enough for me I think.
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