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I pose this question because in this confessional, I will admit that in the last year plus, I have been an escort for all of the above reasons. I’m not here to play holier than thou’. What I ALWAYS HAD HOWEVER, WAS AN ABSOLUTE LOVE FOR THE INDUSTRY. Yes, I may have been homeless, but I started with a home and after a month of sleeping here and there, got another apartment, and eventually bought a condo. Have I done it for Tina? Yup, got carried away at that once upon a time. BUT I WAS STILL DOING MY JOB BECAUSE I LOVED IT. I NEVER TRADED MY SERVICES FOR “FAVORS.” In fact, the tina thing was so I could see the number of clients that was demanding to see me most of the time. Did I do it because I was bored? Yeah, thats how it got started in the industry in the first place. A member of the Rentboy New York office encouraged me to be a model at an event. During that event, I realized how I could love the industry, be damn good at it, and make it a career. This guy is now a very dear friend of mine and is still at RentBoy. Did I escort because I had to? YEP, after selling my nightclub, turning down really lucrative job offers, quitting my other job.......I had to do it. BUT STILL I ALWAYS DID IT BECAUSE I WANTED TO DO IT.
Why am I telling you all of this? Well I am telling you all of this because it seems everyday I have to combat the “shady,” “unreliable,” “theif-infested” image that we, as escorts have. Clearly it is only a select handful that give us a bad name but speaking from a business perspective, one bad situation will be told ten times ( and in our industry probably blogged even more ) and a great encounter is usually told twice. They too will write reveiws but they are much more likely to write about bad, rather than good. We should use these reviews as our “report card” on how we are doing. Take them as feedback and correct what can be corrected. (And yes I know, some things we can’t chage.....if I had a review that said they wish I were from Africa, I couldn’t do that but I COULD find an African escort and introduce the two.) Get my line of thinking?
For those of you “Shady” escorts, STOP. You don’t have to be. Your career can flourish and you can do it the right way. I get about 100 emails a week from escort candidates. People that have scene my website or me on an affiliate site and want to learn from me. I am not tooting my horn. I have learned bits and pieces from escorts around the world. Tony in New York taught me the basics, JT from San Francisco taught me to challenge myself and push myself and a lot about marketing, Orien from LA who’s knack is just being so real, and I could go on and on and on. All escorts should realize they can only benefit from sharing trade secrets. Be secure in yourself and share. I share things with you to hopefully make you better at your job, but that doesn’t threaten me, you still will never be Ethan and that isn’t being egotistical. It’s a fact because we are all unique.
The one escort that stands out in my mind the most and whom I probably have the most respect for is DEAN from Rentboy New York. Nice Guy Dean, they call him. Dean is the ONLY escort that loves being an escort as much as I do, runs his business like a business, exceeds every clients expectation, he always does the next right thing.....and I could go on. He kept me pumped and energized that I could do this job, LOVE IT, BE PROUD OF IT, and treat it like a business. The two of us use to discuss why our clients don’t hold escorts to the same business standards as any other business in any other industry. I mean hell, our clients request some crazy shit, yet are okay with an escort stiffing them, stealing from them, showing up late, clockwatching. It doesn’t make sense to me. With this I mean simple things like being on time, keeping accurate pictures, running sales/promotions, living by the idea that the client is always right, being honest, upholding integrity, and engaging in all the basic principals that apply to other businesses. Everywhere in society we uphold these principals but yet for some reason the clients don’t demand that they apply here in this industry too. We would have more respect as Escorts if not only the clients, but we ourselves, held each other to these ethical standards. My clients know how I run my life and business and if I’m raising the bar across the US, Dean is raising it New York, Orien is raising it in LA, pretty soon others will follow. Eventually it will become a standard and our clients will get the level of service, dedication, and quality of product that they deserve.
Ethan King
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