What do escorts use the money they earn for?
The mode of the
use of money earned as an escort is fully related to the reason why someone
will be a sex worker. Actually, the reason for becoming an escort legitimizes
the hundreds of thousands spent. Accordingly, grouping escorts can give an
exact answer to this issue.
First of all, it
is important to be aware that not all escorts keep all the money they earn. In
vain laws ban pimpery and brothels, and in vain escorts are independent to act,
most of escorts work with the assistance or coercion of a second party in the
profession. If an escort works under a pimp’s control, a certain part of her
income wil be skimmed and get into the pimp’s pocket. A pimp is often a boyfriend
or partner. It's also common to see escorts work in a so-called “hand down
house” where sex business takes place. The escort hands down a part of her
income to the house owner, which can be up to 60-70%. In return, the escort, of
course, is provided with protection and comfort, which is basically a safe
place where she can sell escort time for sex clients.
The remaining money
is at the escort’s disposal. Those escorts who become a sex worker because of
financial circumstances: poverty, family debt, or financial problems to afford
higher education, they’ll invest the money earned by sex into the previously
listed things, without spending on entertainment, expensive clothes or
traveling. These escorts are often single and have children. A recent study
interviewed about 3,000 escort girls, and it turned out that more than 50% of
them have children and they take sex work so that their children will be able
to grow up in good financial conditions. Financing the family by paying their
debt is also a common motive to be an escort, as well as keeping a family
completely on the money earned by sex work. In many cases the family know only
that their female member works in a hotel, at a restaurant or in a service
industry abroad and she earns a good sum.
Those escorts
who are compelled to work as an escort because of not financial but other circumstances,
such as coertion or persuasation by another person, for example, by the escort’s
boyfriend or let’s say, the pimp, who appropriate the money earned by sex work,
constitute another group of sex workers. These escort girls are in love with
their pimps, so they are emotionally vulnerable and exploitable. It often
occurs to them that long years will have to pass until they realize that their
boyfriend or pimp has stolen from them.
There are
so-called conscious escorts who do not waste the money they earn by sex work,
but invest somewhere to build their future. These escorts are mainly young women,
and it cannot be ruled out that they come from a completely normal (not poor) family
with average financial resources. These escorts want to finance their expensive
education at universities or earn money to be able to open their own business.
This type of escort is normally the most able to get out of the sex business.
They usually also have the opportunity to get help from their former
influential sex clients. It is not uncommon for an escort to marry a wealthy ex-client.
The next type of
escort is who spends all their money on parties and funs. Here we are talking
not just about some whim, but about a typical phenomenon going with the sex
trade that almost all escort girls experience at the beginning of the
profession. The reason for this is that when a girl with the average or poor
financial background gets into the profession, earning a lot of money in a
short term, she’ll mesmerized by the big and easy money and a new world will
open for her that she has never seen before. Suddenly she can buy anything she
wants, having a higher standard of living: expensive restaurants, expensive
apartments, jewelry, etc. They will not be able to save money at all, and
they’ll waste money as long as they work as an escort. Costly, designer clothes
cause addiction, so the money they earn will flow to the bad place.
Also, there is
the party enthusiast group of escorts, who will spend money on luxury parties,
drinks and drugs. Festivals, luxury parties will take all their earnings. This
is an addiction that requires a lot of money that can be funded only by sex work.
These escorts usually wear expensive luxury items (Burberry, Prada, Ralph
Lauren, Chanel, Cartier, Gucci...etc.) and accessories, which also require a lot of money.