from www.adultcybermart.com – A girl who works in the adult business and tells you she doesn’t do “privates” is more than likely full of it. A girl who works in the adult business who tells you she’ll only work with a condom is most likely turning tricks without one.
That’s the impression I got as I received a lesson today in trickle down hooker economics and how it affects the porn industry. I spoke to a Madam [12 years in the business] who told me about porn’s working girls and her business as a sexual liaison or booker. For the Madam, who’s being really honest about this, business officially hit the wall last October.
“My email box began dying in October,” she says.
The Madam I talked to, handles a lot of adult industry talent, and a lot of “civilians”. She tells me how she tries to explain the current facts of life to wannabe escorts who just don’t seem to get it.
“My top rated chicks maybe get one job every four months. That’s how slow it’s gotten.”
“Everyone’s just drowning and trying to figure what to do while they’re drowning.
“A lot of the clients are saying I’ve got to move, I lost my job. I used to be able to pre- book girls two months in advance for trips to New York. Girls used to make their $8,000 to $10,000 minimum. But that died in October. November, the same thing. December was the same way. Then the bottom totally fell out of the market in January of this year. No inquiries. Nothing. It’s very scary.
“People used to say escorting was recession-proof. No longer. When I saw it beginning in October that it was officially over. I began letting all the girls know that it was done, that New York has officially died.
“New York is the haven. Girls come in from Paris and London; from Scandinavia. One of the girls from LA Direct Models went to work for an agency in New York and took off without paying the escort agency’s owner. So they’re still after her; but I have a feeling she only did that because she didn’t make as much money as she was originally promised.”
“A lot of the agencies are outright taking 50% now,” The Madam explains.
In New York a good majority of the escort agencies went under like the porn businesses in LA; the ones that remained began taking 50% with the stipulation that the girls give bareback blowjobs with everybody, no exceptions, or weren’t being hired.
Then there’s another problem. Because of escort agencies exacting as much as a 50% tithing, girls are starting to book on their own, and as a result are getting arrested.
“There were a few girls who were arrested in Chicago during Exxxotica,” Madam relates.
“These girls are getting very bold and they think they can do the screening which is a tough process.”
According to the Madam, many of the girls in the industry are now supplementing their porn work with office jobs, but with mixed results.
“This one porn girl I know went to work for AT&T a couple of months.
“She took four or five years off from the porn industry. She came back thinking she was going to make the same money. I told her, you don’t get it and you’re going to get really frustrated. Sure enough, four or five months later she discovered that companies weren’t calling her back. I told her that’s the way it is. No one has money any more. She said, fuck that. I’m going to work for some civilians. She has a job with AT&T for six or seven months and quit to come back.
“A lot of girls are doing that: quitting stripping, quitting escorting thinking a regular job’s going to be better, then realizing it’s long hours, fucking exhausting and that you’re just a whore for somebody else.
“But most of the girls I have that are doing normal jobs are no longer happy with that kind of money, either. Maybe they decided to take a break, have a kid with the boyfriend then get this normal job and are no longer happy with a $1,000 a week. So you get girls who’ll do a weekend tour for extra money.”
And because porn business money is so lousy, Madam tells me she’s getting calls from porn performers who never made themselves available in the past.
“There’s this one big name girl in the business. She just got a divorce and announced that she was in New York City escorting. My guys were immediately hitting me up wondering why she was escorting. Then she put on her site, ‘I’m not doing this for the money, I’m just doing this with a girlfriend for the fun.’ One guy wrote me wondering why any porn chick would escort if she didn’t need the money.”
And you don’t have to be a big name in the adult business to learn a valuable lesson in humility.
“I have 22 year old girls who are gorgeous, who are losing their apartments and moving into little guest rooms. I’ve got girls who are losing their houses,” relates The Madam.
“It doesn’t even matter who you are any more. It doesn’t matter if you’re the hottest Playboy Playmate on the planet.”
The Madam tells me about another top name in the porn industry who used to command $4000 and hour for a session is now accepting $1500 [if she gets that] which is obviously a blow to her reportedly immense ego.
Having been manipulated by some of these “gorgeous girls” in the past, I can’t say I’m exactly broken up to hear about this.
Even so, some of the porn girls who do escort work in a highly competitive market still won’t get off their butts to take a job. Madam tells me about a gig she had for one of her girls that would pay $1,000.
“She tells me, ‘I don’t want to do it- I’m not in the right mind set.'”
“I go are you kidding me? You’re making no money in your secretarial job. I know you’re a single mom, and you won’t come over here for a $1,000? You get the occasional idiot.”
Another thing which you don’t read about at AVN or XBiz is the fact that even some of the stronger porn web companies are hurting. And that has a way of screwing up the escorting math.
“I have girls who have been with this one big company for years,” relates the Madam.
“They could always rely on a check of $2500 to $3000 a month to pay their rent. But those days are over. Now they’re getting checks for $600. If a girl is getting five scenes a month now she’s getting a lot of work. It’s just dying all around. Escort jobs are going down. Porn work is going down. Other webmasters are confirming this. We don’t have a business.”
It’s also no secret that the feature dance industry is withering on the vine.
“I’ve been getting emails from girls telling me they haven’t been booked since March,” relates the Madam.
“Apparently the clubs have been making the determination that features are no longer bringing in the business they used to. Their attitude is why spend more money on the features when they’re not making us money.”
The Madam’s main problem, however, is far less clients.
“They’ve taken the escorting-thing out of their budgets. Because we’ve been removed from their monthly budget, we all have less customers. Because it’s getting that competitive, girls are working without condoms, and our competition are all these civilian girls who have just graduated from college.
“Because they got to pay student loans, they’re doing escorting They’re 22 and fucking hot and they look just as good as a porn star. Maybe they’re not Courtney Cummz but they’re just as pretty as her. And they’re working for $200 an hour without the attitude.”
“I don’t know anybody who’s doing well,” the Madam reflects.
“One of my girls works for one of the large talent agencies in the adult business. She was in there recently and says it was like a funeral home. That office used to be hopping with 60 girls a day shooting.
“Anybody who says they’re doing well is lying. If people are telling you things are great, they’re lying. People in the industry have to sound like they’re okay because they don’t want to lose their accounts. But you can only lead people on for so long.
“Maybe the occasional Vivid girl is doing well because she has a name. But most people I know aren’t doing that well. I know contract girls who are moving in with their parents. Talk about losing their ego.”
Madam tells me she’ll get contacted by girls who’ve been out of the business for awhile, expecting to come back and make $35,000 a month.
“I tell them those days are over. They don’t even know what’s going on. Well, I take that back. I’ve been talking to girls from Bumfuck, Nebraska who know all about Porn Wiki Leaks and are afraid to come into the industry because of that.”
According to The Madam, she knows a lot of porn/escort girls who are now trying their luck on Sugar Daddy sites. Even the Sugar Daddy lifeline isn’t what it used to be.
“Girls are agreeing to smaller arrangements now,” says The Madam.
“Like maybe a couple of thousand a month. This is how fucked up it is now. After the relationship is over, guys are putting up websites telling stories about how they got girls to agree to cheaper rates. They put up pictures of fucking the girls without a condom and saying I used to give this girl $500 a day. Then, what happens, this girl tries to get work with an upscale escort and that website pops up.”
What it all comes down to is a take-what-you-can-get mentality.
“It’s better than not getting any offer,” The Madam agrees.
In order to get a picture of what’s really going on in the escort business, Madam says all you need to do is read the escort reviews.
“You’ll see that girls are working for anal $100, $50 dollar blowjobs. Basically girls are giving it out for free.
“AshleyMadison.com I hear is stealing a lot of clients. Apparently they’re stealing a lot of clients and a lot of girls have told me that. I guess a lot of these guys are scared to be involved with an escort agency, or think it’s easier to be in a relationship for a set amount, or because they’re so depressed they want more out of a provider then just a wham bam thank you mam and need more of a relationship.
“Think about it. If a guy can go on www.seekingarrangements.com and can get some chick to fly to his place for $2,000 for a weekend, why is he going to pay some porn chick $1500 for an hour?”
“Whether it’s real estate, escorting, or adult sales, everybody knows that our business is dying. As soon as they hear some kind of price they don’t want to hear, they’ll tell you to fuck off- in a nice way. So we have no power any more.”
According to the Madam, there are at least five escort agencies sending porn girls out for bareback full service.
“We actually have agencies that won’t hire a porn girl unless they agree to have sex with clients without condoms. There’s one agency in Las Vegas. They’re advertising girls for $400 an hour. One girl called me. They wouldn’t hire her because she wouldn’t have sex without a condom.
“She said I have a kid and don’t want to do that kind of crazy behavior. They wouldn’t employ her.
“When escorting has gotten to the point where they won’t hire you because you won’t fuck without a condom, the world has gone upside down.”
Another agency apparently throws porn star parties in Vegas. A recent party involved a famous girl in porn who just announced her come back. Ten or 14 guys paid in advance to have a number of girls including her show up in a suite for a party without condoms.
“That crazy kind of behavior will fuck up your reputation and customers will rat you out,” says The Madam.
“You go to some sites, and they’ll advertise a ‘feature girl’. The only reason they’re advertising her is because she’ll work without a condom. That’s how it’s going with some of these agencies. Guys want to do cream pies and they’ll book it. That’s what’s also affecting this industry.”
“I’ve got girls telling me these guys aren’t the nicest people and are very disrespectful.
“It’s also scary now as a booker because we don’t know if the girl coming to us was sent by an agency to do bareback full service. And the girls coming to us are so jaded now because there’s so many bad agencies.”