Zonie63
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Sure, you can call it shallow and cynical to sell your ass, just as shallow and cynical as it is to pay for it in order to avoid personal entanglements, from a strictly character standpoint, but it doesn't change a thing: people have been doing it since the dawn of time, they'll be doing it till the sun burns out, largely due to the nature of physical reality and the laws of physics. The four dimensions, time and space: relationships take time, require proximity, we'd all love to have sex whenever and wherever the urge strikes us, with the person of our choice, but the laws of physics dictate that when and who with are often mutually exclusive, sort of an uncertainty principle of sex - you can either have it with the person of your choice, when it's convenient for both of you, or you can have it whenever you want, but you can't be too choosy about who it's with.
So if you look at it like a simple economic issue of supply and demand, which it is, then you can analyze it as an economic issue: a service is being exchanged, Awarenesse's subjective characterization of the participants is irrelevant, value is being created, value is being exchanged for value, and presumably both participants are getting what they want, regardless of anyone else's opinion about their character, w/respect to the nature of the negotiations, caveat emptor and all that, same as any other free market transaction.
One factor for sex workers is that they typically have to work around their clients schedules, which makes it difficult to do as a hobby - you can't work somewhere and tell your boss you gotta take off a couple hours and whip a friend of yours into shape, he's a busy man too, and right now is the only time he has in his busy schedule, you'll be back in a while.
Doesn't work that way, and as mummy guy mentioned, all that latex and shit is expensive, etc., etc., to the point that due to the laws of physics and the laws of supply and demand you have an economic niche for pro-dommes, and it really can't work any other way.
The nature of the resulting transaction is going to abide by the law of supply and demand, and the complexities of economic exchanges of value, caveat emptor, and you get what you pay for.
I've been reading this thread, and this comment seems to be among the more sensible ones. To me, it makes no difference what people do to earn their daily bread, and obviously, some professions are more lucrative than others.
But as I was trying to mention to Blushes in the Findomme thread, this industry is not like going to McDonald's for a hamburger or to 7-11 for a Big Gulp. It might be more akin to a strip club or an adult book store (or even internet porn, for that matter). These are legal businesses, but their public reputation is quite a bit different than other kinds of businesses. Not so much for the actual business itself, but the kind of seedy element it attracts. Get rival gang members in there, and it can be a real nasty scene.
You don't really know who you're dealing with, and that's why I avoid those places altogether. What they do is up to them, but I choose not participate or patronize such places. As you say, caveat emptor, and if I don't trust the person who wants my business, then I will not do business with them. I believe in capitalism over communism, but I'll admit that there are certain downsides to capitalism as well.
I don't think pro-doms are fake, but I guess it depends on how one defines "fake." If one considers Collarme as a social forum for people looking for friends and personal relationships, I happen to think that advertising a business under the guise of personal ad could confuse people and could be construed as deceptive.
I stopped going to Yahoo chat years ago because it seemed that every chat room had bots advertising some porn site. I got the same thing on some social networking site (can't remember which one), where my message box was filled with spam from someone claiming to be interested in my profile and saying "check out my NEW PICS at..."
When you encounter this stuff over and over and over again, it can get a bit irritating and cloud one's perceptions about so-called "personals sites." Why can't they just use paid advertising and their own websites, rather than flooding sites which were ostensibly set up for a completely different purpose? I don't mind what they do, but why do they have to do it here? In fact, it even states in Collarme's Terms of Service:
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3.1. The Website provides a forum through which adults may seek and establish personal contact with one another through the use of the Website's capabilities for displaying photographs and written materials provided by its members.
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7.3.12. You will not use Your profile or any other portion of the Website or Our services to promote any other business enterprise, unless otherwise permitted by collarme.com, nor will you attempt to use any of Our services to promote an escort service, prostitution, web-cams, or any other form of related enterprise;
Now, if Collarme doesn't wish to enforce its own TOS, then that's their business, not mine. But it's worth pointing out just the same.
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