(You can find Part One of this discussion here.) Lori: Taking a professional approach to my work makes it more enjoyable for me, but I hardly think that’s a universal experience. When it comes to being a professional and giving clients what they’re “owed”, I think the standards for acceptable behavior are actually pretty low.… Continue reading Is The Client Always Right?: On Professionalism and Boundaries, Part 2
Category: Clients
Is The Customer Always Right? On Professionalism and Boundaries, Part 1
Below, four in-person sex working professionals discuss how to maintain boundaries while keeping clients happy, the most common problems that cause conflicts with customers, and what they think professionalism means in the context of a career plagued by stigma and illegality. Part two will be posted tomorrow. The women weighing in are Lori Adorable, Amanda… Continue reading Is The Customer Always Right? On Professionalism and Boundaries, Part 1
I Pretend I’m Horny, You Pretend You’re A Dog: Performing Consent In The Club
There was a post going around the stripper tumblrsphere about what is probably one of the most common lap dance rejections of all time: “I would love to but I just don’t think I could control myself.” It’s the perfect way for customers to say no; phrased as a compliment (of sorts), it expresses interest… Continue reading I Pretend I’m Horny, You Pretend You’re A Dog: Performing Consent In The Club
The Big Ripoff: TER, The Texas Murder Aquittal, and the Myth of the Vulnerable Client
In early 2010, Dave Elms, founder of the infamous website The Erotic Review (best known as the review site where clients rate prostitutes on a scale of 1-10), was arrested after talking to an undercover officer in an attempt to hire a hit man. Elms wanted to pay for the murder of an escort and… Continue reading The Big Ripoff: TER, The Texas Murder Aquittal, and the Myth of the Vulnerable Client
Handling The Review Boards
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. —Oscar Wilde There is no human experience so intimate and personal that people won’t publicly dissect it. Childbirth. Funerals. Cancer treatments. And sex. I agree with much of what has already been said here on T&S about the… Continue reading Handling The Review Boards