High end Math

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imaginess

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3hours a day at $600/hr = $1800
5 days a week = $9000
40 Weeks a year = $360,000


$360,000 unreported cash income, and 12 weeks of Vacation. Even if a girl only worked an hour a day it is $120,000.

Now if a girl did 5 hours a day at $200hr, 5 days a week for 48 weeks she would get $240,000

I am sure both figures are more than most people on this board make a year.
 
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Wwanderer

Kids, don't try this at home
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Originally posted by imaginess
I am sure both figures are more than most people on this board make a year.
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So, your point is what? You think they are underpaid, maybe?

Seriously, there are lots of problems with your "high end math" (the work is not that steady and high volume for the large majority of upscale providers, a lot of the income had better be reported or risk legal problems with the IRS far more serious than prostitution charges, expenses - which are more than most would guess, short career with no easy exit strategy at the end into making a living some other way, monthly down time due to period, ...), but some do make quite good money anyway. However, is that wrong for some reason? It is probably most accurate to think of The Biz as a sort of luxury entertainment industry and of the most (financially) successful providers as its top performers. By those standards, they are probably underpaid in comparison to the top people in other forms of entertainment (sports, music, ...).

Anyway, this has all been discussed to death many many times on PMB's, so I don't expect to have a lot more to say about it here. Anyway, in the end, their incomes are set by the market, supply-and-demand and so forth...which sort of trumps any discussion of whether or not they are appropriate etc.

-Ww
 
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imaginess

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Re: Re: High end Math

Originally posted by Wwanderer
It is probably most accurate to think of The Biz as a sort of luxury entertainment industry and of the most (financially) successful providers as its top performers. By those standards, they are probably underpaid in comparison to the top people in other forms of entertainment (sports, music, ...)..

-Ww
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That is why the going rate for porn stars is $1500 and up. That price is usually whether they are independent, or booked through an agency.

There is nothing wrong with making the money, if people are willing to pay. Hell, if I were a woman and had the body for it, I would probably do it myself.

I think my main problem is when visiting providers complain about the extra expense travel and hotel accomadations, and fee the need to raise there rates.
 
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Wwanderer

Kids, don't try this at home
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Re: Re: Re: High end Math

Originally posted by imaginess
I think my main problem is when visiting providers complain about the extra expense travel and hotel accomadations, and fee the need to raise there rates.
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OK. I missed that context entirely in your posts above.

-Ww
 
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Cat_Ballou

anna karenina
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Strictly speaking, hiring a porn star for a session is some kind of equivalent to hiring a major performer to sing at a private party; it will cost you a small fortune, because you're not paying for just the performance, you're paying for the bragging rights to say, "Smokey Robinson sang at my wedding," or whatever... (And you can be sure that whatever hotel Smokey wants to stay in, it's not going to be up for negotiation)...

What bothers me about this type of discussion is that first of all, Ww is exactly right when he points out all the flaws in the math used. Compared to the number of women who make some kind of living in SW, very few are making the kinds of amounts mentioned here...

But more importantly -- there's always a few male voices to chime in that, were they women and attractive enough to do SW, they would. But if it's such great money, and such easy money as seems to be believed, it begs a further question: how come those men aren't recommending sex work to their sisters, daughters and other beloved females? If the life of a provider is such a cakewalk, and we have it so easy (lying around getting laid, getting pedicures, and figuring out how to spend all this dough without getting into IRS trouble, presumably), then why wouldn't you want your sister/daughter/friend to get in on it?

A rhetorical question, obviously: we all know why not...
 
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