I am a woman in my mid forties. A month ago I met a man, SD. SD and I have spent almost every day and night together since meeting and I think I want to spend the rest of my life with him and he feels the same. However five years ago while single and broke, I worked as a hooker for six weeks. SD doesn't know. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 1, 2009 - 67 answers

Why do prostitutes go to street corners? [more inside]
posted by sixcolors on Mar 8, 2009 - 30 answers

Help me find scholarship on Asian Massage Parlors [more inside]
posted by TigerCrane on Dec 9, 2008 - 4 answers

What sort of birth control did old-timey prostitutes use? [more inside]
posted by bonecrusher on Nov 21, 2008 - 29 answers

Street-based sex work: what are the best photo essays, films, interviews, texts, and primary sources you've seen?
posted by acidic on Nov 5, 2008 - 9 answers

I'm at my wits end and not sure what I can do about this. My downstairs neighbors are hosting prostitutes. I wish I were making this up. There are a couple of regular prostitutes that go there fairly often. It usually ends with them fighting with the guys downstairs. Tonight there were about 8 guys waiting outside my building which I thought was odd, but what ever. They leered at me as I walked past and one of them turned to the guy who lives there and he shook his head 'no'. An hour and a half later, there was an altercation out back and I heard/ watched the whole fight which involved the prostitute demanding her money and her skirt and hollering about being butt nekid so there was no way she stole anything. Her pimp arrived and scared the guy and the still shirtless guy gave her the money (and her skirt). The prostitute hollered to the guy as she walked away that she warned him that she had a tracking device on her. [more inside]
posted by MayNicholas on Jul 12, 2008 - 28 answers

Visiting Reno in October, looking for advice on visiting a brothel. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 5, 2008 - 6 answers

Fell in love with a prostitute. Lasted 3 years; ended badly. How to get over it? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jan 13, 2008 - 30 answers

Novels in which a character (preferably main character) goes frequently to the whorehouse and has difficulty controlling this habit? [more inside]
posted by amusem on Jul 27, 2006 - 21 answers

MexicanSexRelationshipFilter. How to best question my partner about his sexual escapades without accusing him of infidelity? [more inside]
posted by pants on Jul 3, 2006 - 31 answers

Realistic risks of disease from visiting a sex worker? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Feb 8, 2006 - 14 answers

I need assistance in saving a voicemail message as an audio file. [more inside]
posted by karmaville on Feb 22, 2005 - 10 answers

While in Vegas talking about the presence of legalized prostitution, my partner (female) broached the subject of a threesome (thus making it two girls and one man, myself). After I ascertained she wasn't joking, I realized I didn't have the first clue about how/whether to actually make it happen (i.e. how to get in touch with a call girl who does couples, what the proper etiquette is, how much would it actually cost, how to make sure you're getting a relatively attractive girl, potential pitfalls I wasn't seeing, whether my girlfriend would actually collapse into a ball of shame afterwards, etc). Does anyone have personal experience with this sort of situation, or have resources to direct me to regarding the logistics of couples with call girls? My girlfriend explicitly said she would only do it with a paid girl because then we'd never see her again and there would be no aspect of jealousy involved, so friends are out of the question. Please only respond with serious answers (esp. to the specific questions above), since I can think of snarky jokes on my own...
posted by anonymous on Jan 25, 2005 - 23 answers

I grok that Holly Golightly is a call girl in Breakfast at Tiffany's, but what does 'fifty dollars for the powder room' mean?
posted by pieoverdone on Dec 27, 2004 - 12 answers

Why is being paid for prostitution illegal but being paid to appear in pornography legal?
posted by Item on Dec 22, 2003 - 10 answers