How it started: I wonder if I can afford to live here?
How it went: Housing is free after a solicitation conviction.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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I don't even know how to find out what prostitutes charge in my own area.
Googling it would be much easier.
Oh that is easy, find a sketchy street near cheap hotels and drive down it slowly swiveling your head back side to side while looking nervous.
A local brick house momma should reach out to you shortly.
Well, I got dragged below, so here it is:
This is offensive because what is an "average prostitute"? Is it the $200/hr craigslist/backpage girl? Is it the drug addicted gay prostitude who is just gay for pay? Then you have to figure in all the high class girls and who knows how much they demand a night? $10k? I sure don't know. How do you determine the average?
One thing about all of these people is that their work isn't measured by how long they are "in the saddle". There's a lot of prep. Whether you're out on the street for four hours walking or maintaining your OF page or cultivating that high-end ambiance... it takes time. Is that averaged in?
Then there's the presupposition that sex work should be the "mean" wage. Shouldn't it be higher? I know I'd want more money to suck a dick than frame a wall. It seems demeaning to think that a specialized trade like sex work is valued the same as the specialized trade of rough carpentry.
So, "average prostitute" is demeaning, thinking that work like sex work is the same value as working retail, and not recognizing that a lot of sex work is preparation and not the actual sex act makes me think the people arguing against me are just dickheads.
Go and fuck your hats.
Again, you’ve taken a shower thought way too literally.
There’s many careers that one builds the cost of prep into the final product. Do you think wedding photographers are only charging for their time on site? No, they build their time editing the photos and paying for equipment and marketing into the cost. Same as sex workers.
No one actually thinks this is a valid way of figuring out cost of living in an area. It’s a shower thought.
lol, that's perfect, wedding photogs.
Yeah, lets peg the going rate at that of wedding photogs. That's pretty offensive also.
wedding photogs. That's pretty offensive also.
Never change. I know you won't but never change.
Your argument that sex work is different from any other work because of the prep time is faulty.
Why?
Because many other professions also do a lot of prep work and advertising that gets built into their pricing. Like....most professions do that, not just sex workers.
Idk dude I've seen prostitutes on soft white underbelly say they charge 40 bucks for a " date" in Los Angeles.
Dont they say $26 an hour is updated minimum wage? Sounds like a variance in living expenses.
Also I try not to let specialists inflate the average
Where do you live that minimum wage isn't insulting?
What?
But also I live somewhere that hasn't updated minimum wage since 2008. But I dont think there is many places it isn't insulting.