I have worked in Calgary and I would be considered a high end provider for that city. It was very review based and difficult to get 2-hour appointments. 1-hr incalls at my hotel was the norm. Outcall requests were to client’s homes. It also had the longest bad date list I had ever come across for a Canadian city. So many NCNS and fake appointments plus general rough behaviour. I never took an appointment without 2 references.

That being said I think there is always a way to work in ways that suit your comfort and safety level in most any North American city. Like MGG mentioned in the post, create the market. It requires time and creativity but is doable. I do think it exists in Calgary, but as a visiting gal I did not have the time to find it or develop it. I have done something like this in my city.

That sounds very interesting!

I’m no fan of reviews though I do have some floating around on the tubes and its easy to say “you don’t need them!” but the fact is in some markets they actually do make a difference and even some HDH’s have them. The world of escorting has changed so drastically in the last few years alone and I’m guessing will continue to change in big ways. So it really should be about your comfort level and what you can deal with. Some people have no problem chasing reviews and the hobbyists/cash who write them and make a lot of scratch using that model. Others cringe when they see their name associated with them even if the review is positive.

I’ve been planning on writing a separate post about reviews for a long time now because for one course in grad school I did a study on reviews as my final project, ranking how often certain acts were mentioned and trying to quantify what was prioritized. I just have to dig through my hard drive to see if I can find that data….

I wonder if it’s even possible to have non-misogynistic sex worker reviews. It appears to me that they’re never about the worker in question’s service-mindedness or skill, but instead turns into a rating of them as a human being, deemed a bad person if not up to the reviewer’s particular standard or idea of how these things should go.

I must admit, though, that I have not read many and that I am by no means an expert, my only knowledge of sex work coming from blogs. I’d love to see more titsandsass writings on it, though.