It's Only a Donation as a Matter of Course.
[QUOTE=JustHereNow;2727008]So I figured this was the right place to post this, if not then I will face the consequences.
I have been doing some thinking, why is it these girls call what we pay them a donation? When I think donation, I think it an amount I give based on what I feel XX is worth. In this case, these girls set their rate and to me that makes it a fee. Does it make them feel better about themselves? Does it make them not feel like a prostitute? Do they feel it makes what they are doing a legal activity because they are not being paid for a service but given a donation for their time? I just thought I would open the door to some discussion.[/QUOTE]Little surprised that a senior member would need to ask this as opposed to a rookie like me knowing. It's just a euphemism to get around the outright pay issue that risks being accused of solicitation, as was mentioned in the previous response. More to the point, I have little faith that it is any kind of a morale boost attempt to avoid the reality of what they're doing (if it was don't you think there would be some dancers in strip clubs referring to the prices as 'donations' too? It's the same as when a girl doesn't want to refer explicitly to money so they call it "roses" or "diamonds" or whatever. I have seen a few ads that are so horrifying frankly I think some of them should be paid in Marlboro points, but I digress.
I have a friend who has escorted and danced for about ten years. She's a solid professional who enjoyed the self control and money while it was good (recession hit her income much like everybody else especially the real estate guys who were her biggest spenders). Except for the young newbies and some of the really messed up headcases, the majority of women doing this for any length of time aren't really trying to hide it from themselves that badly to use a term as a way to avoid the truth. It's their business and this is one of the given minor techniques / elements of etiquette to how it's done, that's all.
How to quote from one thread to another
Bob said he didn't know how to do this. Here's how, Serava thanks for loaning me your post for the PDA. My comments about it are in keeping with the thread, not my actual thoughts about your post.
So some guy posts something and you just can't fucking help yourself, you have to be douchey. You know if you do it on the review thread you will catch a flag but your turrets is making you crazy, you HAVE to say something, what to do, what to do?
No problem, just click quote like you normally would, Serava posted this on the SW thread (I added a * to break the tag so you could see it, you should not do that. You click reply with quote as you always do and the box with his quote comes up. You need to highlight and copy the whole thing including the tags [*url] and [ / url] again that * is there to break the tag so you can see it.
Then navigate to the thread you want to put it in. Click add report. The box you compose reports in comes up and you paste what you had copied from the other window (like below) Then add your commentary.
[*QUOTE=Serava;2748726]Totally agree. She looks like a member of the H Club. [/QUOTE].
Serava you wouldn't know a member of the H Club if she was swinging from your dick.
Simple as that.
If you don't break the tag it will look like this
[QUOTE=Serava;2748726]Totally agree. She looks like a member of the H Club.[/QUOTE]Serava you wouldn't know a member of the H Club if she was swinging from your dick
A2.
Some useless demographic data
I looked at 100 consecutive, unduplicated, local BP ads and found the following breakdown:
Caucasian Providers – 57% (percentage of US population-63%.
AA Providers – 45% (percentage of US population-13%.
Asian Providers – 8% (percentage of US population-6%.
Hispanic Providers – 1% (percentage of US population -17%.
Some useless demographic data
About the only thing I took from your data is that there's probably a lot more female providers than one would think that are operating locally.