Sex work in stories

[Athalia]

You'd have to ask Athalia what she had in mind when she wrote the story, but I would guess that the character was what we'd call a "sexual surrogate" since it was clear that she'd had some sort of psychological training.

Well, I'm here and I can answer that question. Erin was definitely not a prostitute or a "sex worker" in the conventional sense. She was a licensed psychologist specializing in sexual anxiety and dysfunction. She may have had sex with her clientele, but it was always for therapeutic purposes, and not simply to collect a fee for getting laid. What wasn't clear, I suppose, was that she had many other clients who didn't need actual sexual contact, as long as there were other ways of treating them. When she laid Connie, the MC of the story, I tried to make it clear that in this case she was doing the job as a token of her friendship rather than for renumeration.

From the thread, I would gather that "sexual surrogate" would be an apt description of her job. FWIW, I modeled the character on a person interviewed on a radio program who was in that line of work. She emphasized that she was very selective in her process of accepting clients, and felt that she'd done a good job when they could go out on their own and never have the need to consult her again. That doesn't sound like a good business model for a harlot.

 

[jehoram]

What wasn't clear, I suppose, was that she had many other clients who didn't need actual sexual contact, as long as there were other ways of treating them. When she laid Connie, the MC of the story, I tried to make it clear that in this case she was doing the job as a token of her friendship rather than for renumeration.

From the story:

"Well, you learn these things," she said. "One good thing I got out of counseling was that it could do a lot of good. I had a degree in psychology, remember, so I went back and took some more courses and got a counselor's license. That's my job now ... sex therapist!"

"Do you fuck all your clients?" I said with a smile.

She laughed. "No. Only the ones who need it. And my friends, of course!"

"And which one am I?"

I think that made it pretty clear. At least, I thought that way when I edited the story.

From the thread, I would gather that "sexual surrogate" would be an apt description of her job. FWIW, I modeled the character on a person interviewed on a radio program who was in that line of work. She emphasized that she was very selective in her process of accepting clients, and felt that she'd done a good job when they could go out on their own and never have the need to consult her again. That doesn't sound like a good business model for a harlot.

No, it isn't. Not if she wants to stay in business, anyway.

I was thinking of this sort of "sexual surrogate" worker as a kind of coach. A quarterback coach can tell a quarterback what he's doing right and what he's doing wrong, and how to cope with different defensive line-ups and like that. And he can do all that without having to throw the ball. But sometimes, when he's describing a certain way to throw a pass, he has to actually throw the ball to show how it's done.

And I think that the world could use a lot more of those coaches to improve people's sex lives.

 

[Laodice]

When I was a teenager I worked in a legal brothel.

Okay ... 18 and 19 are still "teens," and I started out in the laundry room, and later worked "upstairs" (it was in a 1920's hotel building) as a maid ... but I worked there.

 

[jehoram]

When I was a teenager I worked in a legal brothel.

Okay ... 18 and 19 are still "teens," and I started out in the laundry room, and later worked "upstairs" (it was in a 1920's hotel building) as a maid ... but I worked there.

That must have given you an insight into how these things are actually run and who the sex workers were and who patronized them, in a way that most authors can't appreciate.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Sex work in stories​

Did you ever read my hyperrealistic, gritty, noir tale about two sex workers?

Off the Shoulder

Warning, it may be too realistic for some.

Em

 

[RoperTrace]

Did you ever read my hyperrealistic, gritty, noir tale about two sex workers?

Off the Shoulder

Warning, it may be too realistic for some.

Em

I loved it, but realistic doesn't come to mind. Great concept for a story.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I loved it, but realistic doesn't come to mind. Great concept for a story.

Thanks - it starts out realistic - then becomes a little less so .

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

I loved it, but realistic doesn't come to mind. Great concept for a story.

Thanks for the kind comment as well

Em

 

[TheRedChamber]

Did you ever read my hyperrealistic, gritty, noir tale about two sex workers?

Off the Shoulder

Warning, it may be too realistic for some.

Em

Yeah, I saw that one. Read it thinking 'my, these girls really do have a very good customer focus...oh, okay...sure, I guess that would explain it'

Funnily enough, in the six months since I posted this thread, sex work has kinda fallen out of my ideas pipelines (there are still some stuff kind of clogged up which will need to work their way through), but everything I've started working on at the moment or am about to publish has these theme. Weird how these things go in cycles, but I'm sure it'll be back.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yeah, I saw that one. Read it thinking 'my, these girls really do have a very good customer focus...oh, okay...sure, I guess that would explain it'

They both took their work seriously. Almost as if it was a matter of life or death .

Em

 

[Ravinder40]

I was a sex worker. I escorted while at university in Manila

What can you find in a man’s pants that you’ll never find in a woman’s?

 

[AlinaX]

Please stop doing that.

 

[nice90sguy]

What can you find in a man’s pants that you’ll never find in a woman’s?

In my experience, skidmarks

 

[Ravinder40]

In my experience, skidmarks

Pocket

 

[Bramblethorn]

Pocket

https://www.bamboobody.com.au/collections/pants-with-pockets
https://www.ebay.com.au/b/Pants-for-Women-with-Pockets/63863/bn_7116532765

etc. etc.

Yes it's still unfortunately common for women's pants to be made without them, but "never" is off the mark. Also not sure what this has to do with the thread. I think there's a humour thread that might be a better place for riddles?

 

[AlinaX]

And regardless, an off-topic joke is very inappropriate as a reply to a confession about sex work.

 

[AchtungNight]

My author avatar character Doug Ramsay operates a London nightclub that is also a meeting place for various private events, not all but a significant amount of these are sexual encounters. Every original character on his staff including security chief Clarke, head hostess Jodi Lee Nichols, janitor Asher, chef Yoshi, Doctor Tess Winfield, psychologist Lisa, architect Angelina, etc etc etc is well-trained in acting, martial arts, and other disciplines. Many are also semi-retired commandos. It’s not officially an adult club but the business does sponsor adult activities. Many of the clients are celebrities who frequently put out hot love scenes in their film work or sexually suggestive music or some other popular erotic art. Doug and his staff give incentives for these artists and other similarly important clients to use the club such as first time discounts, cab rides, security, and other services sponsored by the Friendship, which is my fictional equivalent of the Illuminati Society. There are lots of swinging networks involved in the club, which is called Inside Out and has sister clubs in Austin, LA, Athens, and other cities. I’ll probably move the club to Vegas or somewhere else in America should I resume writing about it again. Got to update it per Brexit economic issues.

As for official sex work…

In Passion 4 we see three celebrities looking for hook-up sex on Hollywood Boulevard. They briefly conflict with some territorial working girls. They make it clear they’re not competing with the working girls financially and don’t want conflict with them either. The working girls get picked up first and the celebrities end up with three fans in a local bar who weren’t interested in working girls anyway. Hollywood Boulevard has been known for prostitution IRL.

Passion 4 and 5 feature a unicorn character. Some call that unpaid sex work. The woman who taught me about it (Tess and Lisa are based on her, as are my fictional depictions of certain celebrities) tells me she accepts orgasms as payment and also financial support and other tips but no official salary. No, I will not hand out her contact info online. Unicorns are hard to find for good reason.

Beijing Streakers features a swinging club on a houseboat called “Tiger of Jiang Dong”.

In Two Cats in Heat, a character reads erotic stories in a folder left open on her friend’s computer. It’s not clear where the friend acquired these stories. Maybe it was an adult business like Lit?

My Erotic Couplings story Snakes in Taipei is an adaptation of how I visited a brothel my senior year of high school to lose my virginity. Other seniors were with me, all guided by a graduate of the same school who had been there before. As someone raised to be opposed to sex work, I was on the lookout for various types of trouble at the time- the workers being exploited or treated poorly for example. I didn’t see anything like that, if anything the brothel director seemed more interested in protecting the workers from problematic clients and motivating clients to earn discounts by encouraging them not to mistreat the workers. This stance was reflected in the story. Some things in there- the requirement to drink snake blood before entry to the brothel and the mongoose fight- are fictional, based more on popular culture than reality, but the brothel was pretty accurate. I put this story in EC because I couldn’t decide between Interracial or First Time, neither was a main focus of the story. Still not up to continuing it, more into fanfics. That was also the last time I visited a brothel. They’re not as easy to find without a guide and I’m more comfortable getting sex outside them anyway. Even when it’s like the place I visited in Taipei, there’s always my fears and other worries.

IRL I have visited some adult shops since I turned 18 but I’m more into the internet for my personal tastes regarding erotica. Still open to additional adult business in my writing again someday if I think of the right story. I can’t think of any other ways I’ve included adult business thus far.

IRL, I’m a former aspiring law enforcement officer. I did security work six years and encountered sex work a few times during this period. I have always considered it a valid profession but also recognize how easily it can go bad with exploitation and other bad practices. If I did become a cop (my author avatar was one briefly), I would have expressed this attitude in my work. Probably one reason I am glad that career didn’t work out for me long term. Heh.

 

[John_Vandermeer]

In my story A Wife’s Dark Talent, the titular character taking a side job as a high class Humiliatrix, is the main motive force propeling the story forwards. She quickly proves herself very talented at bringing men’s most debauched erotic humiliation, tease and denial fantasies to life. And finds herself with a larger, faster growing wannabe client list than she can satisfy. The more so because even as she starts as more or less a no touch proDomme at first, she quickly starts adding very much touch additional kink escort services as she grows in confidence, and starts having more and more fun at it.

Her stock in trade are a variety of role play erotic scenarios that vary from the sexy business rival to the exploitative rebound girlfriend, in which she brings a number of core erotic humilistion techniques—CFNM, animal play, furniture play, class play, race play, findom, SPH, and chastity play among them— to bear. And her clients love her for it. And all through that, this high powered working wife actually has her husband fully enabling her side job as a sort of witnessing unpaid office boy. Which is the main conflict of the story, as he is caught between aroused awe of his wife and her exploits, and a deep fear of the descent into being little more than a powerless submissive cuck by her side.