What do you think of when you hear the phrase "Upscale"? snobbery, elitist, joe average not welcome, too good for you unless you make 80+k a year.
Now when you think of street walker what come to mind? bad neighborhood, lice riddin hotel, missing teeth, drugged out skank,getting crabs if your lucky getting robbed if your unlucky.
Not that long ago me and some friends were watching that movie " the people VS larry flynt" and there was a scene where he came up with the idea to turn the newsletter he used to promote his stripclub into an actual magazine (known as hustler).
This scene got us talking about the paralel that can be made between playboy and all the upscale escorts out there.
Below is a script of that scene.
Quote:
Ooh, look at her tits.
Larry:They're nice.
They're nice tits,
but they don't look real.
I don't understand
this magazine.
All these fuzzy pictures...
articles about I don't know
what the hell they're talking about.
You guys read Playboy?
His buddies:- Well, yeah.
- Yeah.
Larry:Did you...
Excuse me, baby.
Did you enjoy
this month's article...
on how to hook up
your quadraphonic stereo system?
His buddies:- What are you talkin' about?
- I think I missed that one.
Larry:Did you follow their advice
on how to make a perfect martini?
Who is this magazine for anyway? I mean, it's like if you don't make 20 thousand plus a year, you don't jerk off. Seven million people buying it and nobody's reading it. Gentlemen, Playboy is mocking you.
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Another thing to note is at that time there were raunchier magazines but they were usually black market and sold out of the basement of the local bookstore, and the parelell to that would be the common street walker.
I have wondered if there is a market for the AVERAGE JOE somewhere in the middle, where a guy of modest meanes can find companionship for the night but not break the bank or even actually afford to see a girl more often than once every couple of months.
Where a working man does not have to resort to going to a dangerous high crim seedy side of town for his nookie.
Working in strip clubs as a DJ I knew many women who would give cheap lapdances and make more than the girls who charged more.
That was a basic rule of economics as there are to ways to make profit, mark up and volume.
a product costs $10 to make one person can afford to pay $100 but 9 0 people can afford $20 and to vendors are selling said product one for $100 using the markup aproach and the other for $20 using the volume approach well at the end of the day who sells more and makes more? there is a reason why big box stores walmart & target are still making a profit while stripling&cox and other high end stores have went the way of the dinosaur. and in the world of escorting this is even more true because they are selling the same product over and over, it costs them zero to produce said product.
Well these girls who cator to the average guy DO exist, and sadly you only see them in a few places craigslist, backpage and
the hoetell,
Alot of these women are average looking women(fine by me), single moms making extra money while their kids are in school, or divorced women trying to keep their lifestyle from changing.
It's a shame the review sites seem to ignore them, and the comminitty at large seems content on keeping things the same.
Upscale escort vs cracked out Street hoe (what? is there no inbetween?)
