Self-abuse: I need help with it!
[QUOTE=DNut;5932517]In a market like we have right now, I only have one word: Masturbation. It comes in handy.[/QUOTE]I see what you did there!
BAM.
p.s. Quoting Omar Khayyam: "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou!"
It's the economy / labor market
[QUOTE=CincyShawn513;5931845]I'm actually shocked some girls haven't made a return with how insane the market is right now. I shutter to think what a girl like Lacey fox, or Jess the body could be charging in this market. Of course I wouldn't pay it. But glad I got to see both many times before things changed. I've also saved a lot of money. Cause yeah. I just can't. I can't pay, old, or overweight women the rates 25 year old 8's were charging 4 years ago. And I'm not paying a car payment for the rayless of the world. I still keep an eye on things, and very rarely you can find a good value. But it's pretty much over. Same girls who were working 5-10 years ago are making money off simps on Instagram and only fans now. It is hard to believe how much the market has bottomed out in such a short period of time. Some guys will never know how good it was 2010-2016 ish. I look at list crawler today and I see one of two things. Women no man should have to pay, or semi cute young girls who don't even do oral without a cover and charge 100 or more for that privileged. I know guys are going to keep paying these rates. So I've accepted unless I want to start doing the street walker thing it's pretty much done. None of these girls out here today are getting my money though. Wish more guys felt the same.[/QUOTE]Right now, restaurants are still paying $500 signing bonuses. Anyone who wants a vanilla job can get it, and probably make twice what they could have made prior to the pandemic.
This is why most of the escorts you see on Tryst are ones who have been around for years, from Taylor Nikole (more than 10 years, if you count her 'Delicious Dawn' days) to Ryann, Carmen, and Jessiek. You are not seeing any new faces because they are all working at restaurants and making what stockbrokers made in 2019. (Slight tongue-in-cheek, but you get the point.) Or they're still living on banked COVID relief money.
At some point, the demand for labor in the private sector will bottom out. Those 47 million who quit their jobs last year may have trouble finding new ones, when the COVID relief money runs out. There are also signs that the pent-up consumer demand from the pandemic months may be flattening out, as well. That will decrease the demand for labor.
When that happens, the mediocre girls who are charging $450 on Tryst will get some competition. When supply goes up, and demand holds constant, prices decrease.
You can't do anything about the supply. But you *can* do something about demand. Less demand also = lower prices, all things being equal ("ceteris paribus", as an economist would say).
This is why you're part of the problem if you're paying $500 for this:
[URL]https://tryst.link/escort/lilredrideithood[/URL]
Or $400 for this:
[URL]https://tryst.link/escort/dawn-bristow[/URL]
Either of those two girls is a $200 girl by pre-pandemic standards.
Likewise, I really want to see Ivy Fleur:
[URL]https://theivyfleur.com/gallery/[/URL]
But Ivy Fleur is a longtime veteran of the industry (another face that is definitely not "new") and she's charging $1,000 per appointment. I could come up with the money. But I'm just not going to do that. I don't want to reward blatant price-gouging.
Experience tells me that the economy, and the supply / demand equation in the hobby market will change. I started dabbling in the hobby in the 1990's, and I've seen many cycles of good and bad markets. Right now, I am going to hold on to my money, and wait for a better market. It will come. In the meantime, don't pay $400 for an overweight 40-year-old who was seeing guys for $150 a few years ago.
Collective consumer action
[QUOTE=LuckyNutz;5935390]Highly disagree on many of the aspects. Continuously complaining about what ladies feel they are worth is not helpful. You can choose to see someone who is cheap or you can save up and spend money on someone you see once a week. The last time I was in Cincy which was two weeks, I spent nearly $1 k on a lady that didn't want to be reviewed. I will be one of the men that is willing to pay a lady what she feels is worth. You can swipe next and move on.[/QUOTE]There is a long history of collective consumer action to bring about changes in a market. Not just in the hobby, but in other sectors as well. As long as it's done on a peaceful, voluntary basis, there is no ethical conflict.
I'm glad that you're happy about paying inflated prices. (You must be absolutely giddy about gas prices.).
You're free to keep paying them. Why stop at $1 K, though? Why not go to $5 K? Imagine how good the lady will feel then!
Meanwhile, the rest of us will stop rewarding price gouging (or rewarding it less). That might help the gullible hold on to more of their money.