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Originally Posted by Nicole Dupre
Are you serious? She's saying that escorts don't make 200 to 300/hr consistently. That's a lie, and it's pretty shady to boot.
Certainly it would be easy for attractive girls in their prime to make that kind of money, or better. But like you said, it's all about the individual. An older lady who hasn't aged well isn't going to be able to bring in that kind of money as easily, and if she has nothing to fall back on (no retirement, no education, no other work experience) her options might not be that good.
Unless things are very different for trans escorting, with GG's I would not expect many girls to make 200-300/hr into their mid to late 50s onward, and if they do, I would be surprised if they were still booking as many sessions as they did a decade or two earlier. After all, isn't youthfulness one of the standards of beauty in our society?
I think that's the bigger issue here. It isn't "shade" to mention that people usually can't rely on escorting for being their ONLY source of employment, for their
entire lives. Having a retirement fund, education, health insurance, some other work experience- that's not elitism, that's just reality. Basic things like health insurance and a retirement income are things that everyone needs. Anyone in escorting should care about them, just as anyone else who is self employed does.
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It may not be healthy validation, but it beats being old and unwanted.
Sure, why do you think so many girls in our society become grumpy in their old age, or become attracted to feminism when previously they didn't care for it? The way I've heard older girls describe being old is, in our society, it's like becoming invisible. People don't take you as seriously, people are less likely to interact with you, less likely to care about you the way they used to. Throw in how girls live longer and usually end up living a decade or more alone after their husband dies (assuming he hadn't left her for a younger girl by that point anyway)- growing old
sucks. It's also a fate for everyone who doesn't die along the way from something else (be it murder, suicide, aids, car accidents, or anything else life can throw at people). But some of this conversation is somewhat offtopic, I don't believe anyone on HA is old enough to be retired (??).