• .Donuts@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I don’t mean this in a demeaning way, but isn’t that just an escort + prostitution?

    You’re getting paid for company is one, getting paid for sex is two.

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      21 days ago

      Personally, I don’t see it that way, because I’m not getting paid for sex. I’m getting paid for company - which is a whole thing on its own - just so happens it also includes sex.

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        21 days ago

        What you listed is what escorts do, minus the sex. Hence why I combined the two professions.

        Do you have a partner? If so, how does your work influence your private life?

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          21 days ago

          That’s not really accurate. Escorts 99% of the time are mainly about sex. Escorts are fancy prostitutes; or more accurately a fancy term for prostitute. The myth of the “sexless, companion escort” is just a way to sugarcoat/sanitize sex work. It’s also a bit of a dangerous myth to propagate because impressionable people hear it and are like: I’m gonna do this cause it’s easy money and I don’t even have to sleep with anybody - which is just not true in 99% of the cases.

          I don’t have a partner.