Eros Guide and the 1500 photoshoot

photography, prostitution, sex work
I was minding my own Twitter business when it popped into my stream, Eros Guide announced they were coming to my city, Washington DC for a photo event. I clicked the link. Seems Eros is getting into the escort photoshoot business and they are doing it in DC. I was pretty irritated right away but not for the reason you might think.  What bothered me about this was that Eros Guide was selling these photoshoots for outrageous amounts of money 1200-1500 dollars of hard earned escort cash thats 3/4 times the going rate and marketing it towards "new escorts" The package they were offering was a shoot with a photographer with a minimal portfolio that had a grand total of 1 adult photo, one location for everyone just to make…
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WTF Is Hapening To City Vibe

sex work
[caption id="attachment_1885" align="alignleft" width="217" caption="why be original"][/caption]City Vibe was a major player in the escort advertising world. You could get a big glossy ad in any major city in the US and even some not so major ones. They had some kinda link exchange deal with the big national review website, yanno the one that boasts a gazillion escort reviews. If you had a profile on that site you would often find a link to your ad on Eros or some other site replaced by a link to City Vibe. When I started touring, City Vibe would often give me a free ad in what ever city I was traveling to. I didn't ask for this ad they would just do it and somehow they knew where I was traveling…
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Reaching Out – Eros Guide Update

sex work
[caption id="attachment_1275" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Shoot that poison arrow..."][/caption]I have written critically in the past about escort support services, Yanno those pesky mall advertising sites, photographers, designers etc., we all need to help our business grow and flourish. One site  i was concerned about and wrote freely about was The Eros Guide. Now i like the Eros guide i always have,  in the past when Eros was flourishing, i was as well. With the downturn in the economy (yes, escorts are not recession proof) it made us (me) as escorts find ways to work smarter not harder so everything had a turn under the harsh light of cost benefit analysis and the Eros Guide even though liked them personally got their turn. Lets face it they are expensive and when moneys…
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