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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I dated a girl before she Turned Pro. Decades later she filled me in on her short stint, and this one gem:

  • if she's waiting for you, she's a whore
  • if you're waiting somewhere for her, she's an escort or a call-girl.

One of them has more rules, too.

But I dunno.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago

A high-class whore is still a whore.

No shade, and do what you want - grab that bag if that's what you want, but there's little difference between a street walker, a call girl, or a porn star. You're still being paid for sex, simple as that. If it's consensual, and nobody is being exploited then whatever.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip -5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

if you’re waiting somewhere for her, she’s an escort or a call-girl.

if she is an escort, than you having to pay should have been a hint. and are you saying that normal girls and women are never late? this "wisdom" seems more like something someone read in a playboy and didn't think about it much...

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Read it again.

yeah, lets try.

I dated a girl before she Turned Pro. Decades later she filled me in on her short stint

they talked to former hooker

and this one gem: [gem]...

and this one gem... sentence misses predicate, so i have no fucking idea what they are trying to say.

One of them has more rules, too.

one of who? what?

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe there is some cultural gap.

Note: I am not saying this commenter is correct. I am attempting to parse the words for you to get a better handle on what I think they meant.

They are explaining how if you are paying for sex and you are waiting for the sex worker to show up (indicating that they hold some power in the transaction) then they are an escort or a call-girl.

If the sex worker was standing around waiting for a client (indicating less power in the transaction on their side) Then they are a 'whore' or 'hooker.'

The 'one of them has more rules' comment is saying that the group being called escort or call girl has more rules about what you are allowed to do/have done to you than the group under the banner of hooker or whore.


Again - not my words, not my belief. I am only playing translator.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

well my experience does not extend beyond watching the diary of a callgirl, but i think that

(indicating that they hold some power in the transaction)

is romanticizing it little bit. power in any transaction belongs to person paying. the difference is you pick one of them on her street corner and the other one in the hotel lobby, but i don't see that fact as any mysterious revelation. and i don't think that callgirl being constantly late would get lot of repeated business.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago

Stick em in a stew!