An agency by any other name

[lovingboth]

I met an escort recently who was working for an agency that, in general, was treating her very well. What made us both laugh was its.. 'upfront' name.

It made me think:

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Comments

[devotedtopast.livejournal.com]

But "horny bitches" was by far the coolest name, and I'd boycott anything that took more of their workers money than they needed to...

[uran.livejournal.com]

..Needed to? What's this need business?
They take as much as they can because that's their job. To live off other people's earnings while they answer the phones.

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure answering the phones and placing ads is a legitimate kind of work, plus it's a first line of contact with idiots. However it's the smaller part of the work.

The problem is if these people who do the smaller part of the real work actually own the business. And it's difficult for them not to if they are the "permanent" side with a public name, phone number, etc. while the sex workers are less visible and some of them come and go. A cooperative scheme might work to counter that, but I don't imagine it's any easier than in any other kind of artisan business.

Sorry if I'm ranting, but a lot of the problems mentioned in the context of sex work seem to me problems with capitalism. Sex work looks naturally like an artisan business, best run as a partnership. If instead you apply an owner/employee relationship, bad things seem to happen.