Escorts...Raising the Bar

Well personally I don't give a shit if a few whores get their asses stalked IRL for these things, I think most of them accept this as a possible reality when they sign up for this kind of job. As for prices, eh, there's a word for this and it's called "cheap whore" and I think it applies. You just probably haven't looked around hard enough, and we're talking about virtual services, such as pictures and video, which you can download for free anyway (of hot models and real pornstars), why would you want to pay loads of cash to see some lonely housewife show her vagoo?

much hate in there oh moral one


But on topic:
They are competing with the freebie sex groups and locations, it's hard to compete with free

So they look for value add stuff like voice, pictures and webcam.

Prices for those starting out tend to be low, but once they develop regulars the prices tend to climb since they are not competing with the masses anymore

A good RP'er should be making more, but as the few I know joke about clients:
* some just want to watch the animations
* some consider M's, H's and the odd vowel typed in to be good role play
* the short one line "yeah baby" types

Yes, its the real Jenna Jameson, the famous porn star, who is associated with the "Ecstasy Islands" sims. No, she doesn't actually log in much at all herself, although she *does* have an avatar, which has the name "Jenna Jameson". At first it was called "Club Virtually Jenna", as a tie in to the "Virtually Jenna" video game. As such, it was justified purely as advertising and promotion even if the clubs and stores in the sims never make a penny.

Since then, other real world adult industry sponsors have joined, so the name has been changed to "Ecstasy Islands". Neither Ms Jameson, or the other sponsors directly own the sims, they are built and managed by a separate company:

http://www.mountainmiester.com/index_files/Page781.htm
http://www.ecstasyislands.com/

Think of those sims as an experiment by the adult industry, to see if "cybersex" in various forms is ready for the mainstream. Judging by the traffic in those sims, the answer appears to be "not in the form of Second Life".

But given how much money is made from adult DVDs and websites, and how much is spent on video games in general, it makes sense for the adult industry to "test the waters" for 3D interactive cybersex. The USD$ 2400 a month thats being spent on tier for 8 sims is totally trivial in comparison to the multi-billion size of those businesses.

As relates to the thread topic, the escorts at the Scores Cabaret/Ecstasy Islands Downtown location are the same sort seen in other parts of SL, though the fixed rate at that club (L$1600 per half hour) is high enough to lose business to the competing places.

One unique service they offer is making Machinima porn videos, with professional editing, at a cost of L$20,000 per hour for studio time plus optional extras.

So its like Zombie Hookers now?

The traditional SL escort is like the geisha. A disappearing heritage. No one with any sense will voice or web cam - but words and ideas are sensual. I will NOT be as intimate with a real man as I am with a man on sl. At least, until I am totally committed - and who is?
I can say things and suggest things that turn him on and me. Voice has removed the mystery - the "dangerous letters" - the words that turn sex on cyber into the wonderful "floating world"of the escort and the uncommitted.
Words are everything.
Voice is a telephone call. That's all it is

Escorts in SL have been artistes in many ways. maybe you should fork out some serious cash and try one of the great ones. Masturbation will take on a completely different meaning - as my partner now says.
By the way, we are not a "few whores" and not all of us are housewives. The sl escort is intelligent and literate and often successful. They have to deal with complexities and depth of emotions. maybe if you have the kinda cash that is demanded you should try one.

nor will I. In real life, I'm nowhere near as flexible lol

Perhaps I should think of doing escort work. Where would be the best place to find rich newbies?

Okay Relaktra - I wanna know more about this "flexible" stuff! I have a few moves I learned in Greenland (yes, true!) but always ready for more.

Lindens crashed the escort market by adding lots of new last names. They're trying to starve them out!!

When I first started SL, I briefly considered doing the escort thing, but found that building, texturesmithery and occasionally moonlighting as a stripper is much more fun, requires less disclosure and is much less wearing on the nerves. Besides, never having really been into VR shenannigans of the sexual sort (OK, call me old-fashioned, but I much prefer the real thing; for starters, no lag...)), I'd find it difficult to contain my mirth during a voice session....who wants an escort who constantly sounds like she's about to bust a gut laughing? Besides, the voice thing can be worked around; there are some rather good voice-changer software packages out there, and they work.

I think the best escorts have always been specialists. That means concentrating in a certain strata of society - old age penshioners, for example. I am serious. Old men can be lovely. And generous. I think it's possible the "new wave" of hookers lack the finesse that we older avatars had. I just can't get excited on the phone. It's so "Ma Bell" and icky.

i think posting that (imbedded) will get you banned (as of Katt's recent policy disclaimer). delete at once!

I tried escorting only last week, Didn't make a penny.

Something to do with the fact that I kept forgetting to add either "hun" or "babe" to the end of every sentence.

And some seemed appalled by the fact my brazilian ended in my cleavage.

Oh well.

let's face it.. this nagging/complaining thread is silly, this is why:

Cheap prices... IF i where a client, i would not complain at all: cheap sex, with all the bells and whistles. besides, for the escort this means actually performing to gain clients.. not just parking the av in a fixed animation, and jabbering things like: "ooh, aaah, uh, etc"
now one actually HAS to perform in communication, interaction. this will result in better quality for her/his clients and will gain income. (it's the commercial workings.)


Webcam... if you like it use it, if you don't decline it. simple.

Voice: same as cam.

I don't agree with you too often Jig, but this is beautifully said. People like Cel who equate SL escorts with "cheap whores" and talk snottily about "that kind of work" don't understand that text based cybering is completely different from RL prostitution...the only thing they share is the common thread of sex.

As long as we resurrected this ancient thread, let me add something I discovered the other day...

I don't think there's a generic name for this kind of thing yet, so I'll have to describe it.
Imagine a computer peripheral, plugged into your USB port. The other end is plugged into...well, into you. A sheath for the guys, a vibrating egg or dildo for the ladies...or for the back door regions.

The two participants, both equipped with the appropriate peripherals, engage in cyber...and what one does, the other feels, more or less.

I've seen two versions of this sort of thing, and both are sort of in the prototype stage. But if Xcite figures out a way to interface them to Second Life...!

Thanks Lindal for your comments. Its really good to have positive feedback. SL is a marvellous place to explore ourselves and each other. A I have said before, the great escorts have been more like Geisha or courtesans in sl. It is an honourable profession in a world where "aloneness" can lead to sadness and "loneliness" for many - escorts offer companionship on many levels.

Just don't use 'em during a thunderstorm!!

Death by SLextrocution is not the way to be remembered!!!

I have seen these on news stories as well. One is called the Sinnulator lol which is a Instant Messenger Style controlled sex toy.

Kinda gives a whole new definition to the term Plugged In.

hey

than you could buy it, ...
well ive removed all xcitestuff it was much to irritating to me to have talking "privateparts"
voice and videocam:
text will stay on screen and continue over time thats what i love with "cyber...".
a word on voice with backgroundsound will destroy MY imagine.
me on cam and as an avatar at the same time will cause -> reality_crash

just my 2 cents

I've heard some wild stories about what those escorts have to put up with, there are some sick people on SL....

I would use voice or webcam, but.. well. I've got a kid and... well.. she likes to pop up behind me and ask.. "what ya doin?"


As for escorts, keep it up it keeps the creeps off the women who don't want that from SL.
bravo to the escorts.. use those cams, use voice...

QFT. I ran across one ad for a place called "Escorts Unlimited". It said something like, "Are you tired of escorts who say they won't do this, or won't do that? Our girls will do ANYTHING! Bonded and guaranteed". They make the girls put up a bond. If they are asked to do something and refuse, they forfeit the bond.

Well ewwww, and excuuuuse me.

That's what I was thinking.