MarblesKyles' reminiscing, and some words from a veteran
I'm glad to see Marbles back.
As Bill Clinton used to say (see, I *am* a veteran), "I feel your pain. ".
I haven't posted in a while, because I know there's nothing to be gained from me endlessly saying things like, "But that one's too old, fat, overpriced, etc. ".
As for price. I don't expect to be paying 2009 prices. Four hundred is probably a reasonable base price now for quality women.
The problem for me, rather, is that I'm drawn to almost none of the options currently on the market, at any price. A decade ago, I had to watch my budget because there were so many women I wanted to see.
I've dabbled with the hobby since 1992. The hobby, like everything else, is subject to boom and bust cycles, often protracted ones. Between 1998 and 2006, choices were very limited. The Golden Age lasted from 2008 through early 2019.
Here's my analysis of our current state:
In 2012 we had:
-8 percent unemployment.
-A comparatively liberal political environment, both in the US and in Ohio.
-A laissez-faire legal environment toward the internet.
-Lots of young women (a "youth bubble".
-Sex work (especially sugar baby dating) getting positive media coverage.
That all led to a good hobby market, in other words, a good market for hobbyists.
In 2026 we have:
-4. 3 percent unemployment.
-A right-leaning political environment.
-Lots of internet regulation (SESTA / FOSTA).
-Fewer young women. (Though we only need a few!
-All sex work being portrayed as "trafficking" in the news.
That makes for a bad market for us. The hot women are the last to enter the hobby, and the first to leave. (Remember, I've been watching this since 1992.) That leaves the overweight, the old, the scamming, and the substance-abusing.
Todd's First Law of Economics and the Hobby: 5 percent unemployment is the threshold where a significant number of new, attractive women enter the hobby. They just don't have an incentive to do it when the job market is hot.
On the positive side, the labor market seems to be loosening. I also predict that the national mood and the political environment are about to swing left again. That will create better conditions for the hobby.
Until then, my advice is to hobby conservatively, with known and vetted providers who suit your tastes. What goes up, must come down.
I don't think respected mongers are seeing them
[QUOTE=TickleJay;7583780]I hope so, Todd. I look at some of the Tryst girls and I wonder how many are paying the $$$ they want, PLUS deposits! We need more info if anyone is getting ghosted after ponying up deposit $$.[/QUOTE]Good analysis as usual from Todd.
I think about the quoted text above a lot. Just strictly approaching this from a common sense deduction standpoint, I don't think the 600 club on Tryst is getting a lot of business. There would be WAY more reviews on here. Many of them have no reviews. While I don't search for all of them, I do look into random ones or ones that pique my interest. Almost never can I find a review. At best, I will find a post of someone asking if anyone has seen them or maybe a post reviewing them in another city, usually where they are based. I've noticed that as well over the years on Tryst. Some of them are based in a city 2-5 hours away but they indicate they are also available in Cincinnati or are planning on traveling to Cincinnati soon. My theory is that some of them ask for 500 or more, plus deposits and possibly other fees. If they can get a monger to agree to that in a town 1. 5 hours away, they will make the drive for it. Which tells me their service is probably worth half what they are charging (or less) but they are inflating their price to justify the travel time, hotel booking and risk. It's not a horrible way to operate from a business standpoint but it leads to scarcity for the consumer. They are taking limited risks and maximizing what they make, as long as they can survive on seeing one monger a week or whatever they end up doing, they have no reason to drop their price or lower their demands. Jacking up prices limits the tire kickers and weirdos too.
I realize there's many mongers on here seeing the high honorarium traveling girls, but the regular posters on tryst asking for top dollar can't possibly be getting that much traffic.
We are not the only mongers
Yes I have no hard numbers but I would venture to say that the members here are the minority of the mongers. I might go as far as saying me. Bers and non-members that just read the reports are the minority.
There are many guys out there doing this without doing any homework. Yes I was there many years ago until a provider told me about this site because she was worried about me getting arrested.
Then there are members that do not post reports and some are reluctant on posting reports on good service because they do not want the lady to get too busy.
If a lady charges 300 for an hour of entertaining she only has to get about 3 appointments a week to make her rent and have money left over. The some of these ladies have side hustles.
Yes it is possible that they can get enough customers.
[QUOTE=MarblesKyle;7583833]Good analysis as usual from Todd.
I think about the quoted text above a lot. Just strictly approaching this from a common sense deduction standpoint, I don't think the 600 club on Tryst is getting a lot of business. There would be WAY more reviews on here. Many of them have no reviews. While I don't search for all of them, I do look into random ones or ones that pique my interest. Almost never can I find a review. At best, I will find a post of someone asking if anyone has seen them or maybe a post reviewing them in another city, usually where they are based. I've noticed that as well over the years on Tryst. Some of them are based in a city 2-5 hours away but they indicate they are also available in Cincinnati or are planning on traveling to Cincinnati soon. My theory is that some of them ask for 500 or more, plus deposits and possibly other fees. If they can get a monger to agree to that in a town 1. 5 hours away, they will make the drive for it. Which tells me their service is probably worth half what they are charging (or less) but they are inflating their price to justify the travel time, hotel booking and risk. It's not a horrible way to operate from a business standpoint but it leads to scarcity for the consumer. They are taking limited risks and maximizing what they make, as long as they can survive on seeing one monger a week or whatever they end up doing, they have no reason to drop their price or lower their demands. Jacking up prices limits the tire kickers and weirdos too.
I realize there's many mongers on here seeing the high honorarium traveling girls, but the regular posters on tryst asking for top dollar can't possibly be getting that much traffic.[/QUOTE]
Online nonsense: OF is really nothing new, and few women are making real money there
[QUOTE=UOnlyLiveOnce;7583857] Also, we now have OnlyFans in the mix. Hot chicks can make money there without ever having to hook up with a monger.[/QUOTE]I saw a few comments below about the impact of OF and other online options, which I think very few of us are interested in. I can't remember the last time I spent money on porn, and I rarely look at the various hub sites.
OF got a lot of attention after the pandemic. And yes, I think it's been a factor, but not in the way you might think.
Firstly, OF really isn't a new idea. For as long as I can remember, the default mode (especially for hot women) is to try to get your money by offering various forms of visual teasing and pseudo-sex. Look, but don't touch.
I remember reading an article about Camwhores in Yahoo Magazine circa 1999. Camshows have been around since the beginning of the internet.
Around the same time, there were several locally famous girls here in Cincinnati selling content from their own websites.
Strip bars are definitely on the decline, but they used to be a big thing. During the 1990's and 2000's, I remember hearing about women making four figures in one night at strip bars. There was a Deja Vu on the east side of Cincinnati, and there were always guys going into the VIP room, hoping in vain that something would happen.
Also in the 1990's and 2000's, there were agencies like Best Shows, that would send strippers to your house. Sex was implied, and once in a while, you could find one who would do extras. But they usually wanted to do nothing but strip for you. (I had better luck with several of the girls from Cincy Seductions, but that's another story for another day.).
What makes OF unusual is that it is a very hyped, and frictionless way for many women to do this. There are legitimately some women who make good money on OF. But there were strippers who made good money back in the 1990's, too. As one stripper confided in me years ago, "It's actually kind of hard to make a lot of money just prancing around naked, without letting anyone touch you. ".
I recently read an article stating that most OF creators are making under $200 per month. The platform is highly saturated now, and they have to compete with women in Eastern Europe and Latin America.
From an economic perspective, supply always ends up exceeding demand where various forms of "look only" offerings are involved.
On the other hand, most youngish, attractive women could print money if they would only give escorting or sugaring a try. It would make the typical OF paycheck look like chump change.
There is a real problem, though, that many potential escorts (particularly among the under 30 crowd) are still convinced that their OF is going to explode any day now. After all, all those girls on TikTok are saying that OF is easy money! What's wrong?
Meanwhile, the in-person escort market is filled with women who never believed that people would pay them money for their photos. But they're the ones who are showing up, so they're making more money than the hot girls with OF accounts.
That's the real story behind OF as a factor in the escort market, IMHO.
