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UllrsIshtar -> RE: Seeking Advice (10/1/2015 12:53:36 PM)
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Mostly echoing what OsideGirl already said.
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ORIGINAL: MikeRaven
I do notice that a lot of those women who charge $300 make you go to a Dungeon in Los Angeles. I didn't realize that renting a room was so expensive.
Established dungeons for rent are expensive. Count an average of $100 an hour to rent a space per use.
Having your own commercial space is even more expensive, because you have to furnish and decorate it (think in the order of $10.000 to do a halfway decent job). And you pay rent even when you're not working. Most Pro-Dommes don't work 40 hours a week.
It takes a lot of effort and dedication to get up to a steady 10 hour a week work week where you can actually count on being booked 10 hours every week.
On top of that an hour of work with a client doesn't equal simple an hour of the Domme's time. There's the pre-interview time to figure out what the client wants, the time you spend planning our what you're going to do, the time you spend getting ready by setting up the toys/room the way you're going to use it, the time to get dressed and put make-up on. Afterwards there's clean up, disinfecting of toys, exit-interviews where you check with the client about how they enjoyed the experience.
If you wore latex, there's the time-consuming process of cleaning that.
For every hour a Domme actually spends playing with the client, count that she has at least an hour on top of that getting ready/cleaning up. In cases of specialized play it's more like two hours.
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ORIGINAL: MikeRaven
However, some of these women will go to your place. Maybe some of them will do it out of their own house.
All very dangerous options as OsideGirl said, which few women will do.
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ORIGINAL: MikeRaven
Or why not rent a room from Motel 6 at $55?
Motel rooms are dangerous because you cannot control the client's behavior. You cannot guarantee that he'll keep noise levels down to appropriate levels for a motel room, which means that you cannot provide your client with the experience he's looking for if it means that you have to control the scene to inhibit his natural reactions.
Also, most men pay for the fantasy of the Domme being this mystical, powerful, tasteful and high-end Goddess worthy of only the best. Cheap and dirty motel rooms ruin that fantasy, because the women they like to envision this Domme to be wouldn't be caught death in such a place (and for most of them that's actually true too... more Pro-Dommes I know actually wouldn't stoop to seeing clients in such places).
When you make a Pro-Dommes equivalent to a low end hooker, the fantasy doesn't work.
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ORIGINAL: MikeRaven
A lot of men have fetishes such as - face slapping, verbal humiliation, spitting, spanking, etc. that doesn't require any expensive equipment.
Very few men see Pro-Dommes wanting 'simple and easy'.
Even if 'simple and easy' is what they're looking for, they're not really interested in doing it in a dirty $55 motel room. They want the entire fantasy package. Very very few clients enjoy scenes where there is no equipment needed, even if their core fantasies revolve around stuff that doesn't involve equipment (such as spitting) they still want the scene enhancement of being restrained, or locked in a cage, or chained to a toilet, while the Domme humiliates and spits on him.
Pro-Dommes sell fantasies, not actions.
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ORIGINAL: MikeRaven
I understand that fetish wear is expensive but once you buy an outfit you can use it over and over.
You cannot keep showing up in the same outfit. Besides that they wear out, just like other clothing, and often even much faster due to their intricacy and fragility. For example, decent seamed french silk gather stockings that so many foot fetishists are into run about $20 a pair, and if you're lucky you can get about 3-5 uses out of them. Now that's an example on the extremer side of things, but it tends to hold true for most fetish outfits... they don't hold up to serious use as long as you'd wish considering what you paid for them.
Besides that there's toys to consider. To be able to command decent money as a Pro-Domme, and make it so your clients will continue seeing you instead of switching to somebody else, you basically need to have "one of everything". A decent starter collection of toys that makes you able to handle *most* requests you'll get will set you back about $5.000. That's not including stuff you'll need for more specialized play such as medical, electrical, toilet, sissyfication/feminisation or latex.
Or the fact that regular clients enjoy you keeping it fresh by coming up with new toys and so forth.
When you add that all up, combined with the fact that it takes quite a while for a Pro-Domme to establish so that she can work a steady 10 hours a week, you'll see that they really don't make as much as you're picturing.
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