i feel like if these blogs were being written by actual women there are easier ways to get people to buy you stuff on your amazon wishlist without resorting to creating this really elaborate fake persona.
also, um, as someone who does a shitton of drugs, i still dont use with clients. BECAUSE IT IS RETARDED.
idk, though because like, clearly with these fake blogs its drowning out the voices of actual providers, but at the same time its helping to humanize t hem--at least until their eventually exposed. their also selling this really damaging sexual fantasy but at the same time like--whoever writes rpd apparently put up some pretty informative posts about the industry and sex in general. so, idk.
There is that. Either way I definitely think a cry for attention is behind some of it, and that's another kind of currency.
See! And--look, I won't pretend to be straight-edge, although I quit recreational drug use entirely when I was about twenty, but there's still so much that can go awry. Especially if you're using something potently hallucinogenic, for example, which I've even seen claimed by one provider who professes to work in Boston.
It would be nice if they could do that informing as sex work activists instead of pretending they're strippers and escorts. I wonder if some of them are former activists, actually, maybe they got bored with watching from the sidelines?
Thalesia is the home of cheap paperback literature in Eosia; it's also where I first discovered this trend of mistresses and prostitutes to the upper class apparently writing tales of their exploits under pseudonyms. (I spent a lot of time traveling with people I intensely disliked; if it was printed, I probably read it.)
Some of them were remarkably like what you describe here, and may or may not have been genuine. At least a few were verifiably not strictly fiction, and most of those tended to thinly veil the men written about for whatever reason. Usually political, or at the very least it'd be a convenient side-effect if he was ruined in the court of public opinion.
The tone was usually different in the ones written by women, and personally I liked them better - but I always thought it was a dangerous thing to do. I probably have a few I could dig out if you'd like, but I'd have to have them translated. How inappropriate would that be for a wedding present?
Also, I'm not surprised at all by that, and you're right, it is dangerous. Another reason these pretend escorts are suspicious is because they use their working name when they talk really candidly about what they do, and some clients (or people who know those clients, God forbid) can figure it out. Discretion is everything.
The Emsat thieves court had a finger or three in that particular pie, as I recall, and I imagine whoever was writing from there - I assume not all the authors were Thalesian, it's only a convenient place to get published and distributed at a low cost and high profit - had a little more freedom with her words given the givens, but not everyone can afford that kind of protection and it does come with its own set of strings attached.
"Indiscreet" and "out of work" are frequently interchangeable concepts. I see the point, though; I have my doubts about someone lasting long enough to have many interesting anecdotes if they can't wrap their minds around the fact that putting information out that could get them hurt is a bad idea. If you can't protect your own secrets, with how much people like to talk in bed and near it...
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also, um, as someone who does a shitton of drugs, i still dont use with clients. BECAUSE IT IS RETARDED.
idk, though because like, clearly with these fake blogs its drowning out the voices of actual providers, but at the same time its helping to humanize t hem--at least until their eventually exposed. their also selling this really damaging sexual fantasy but at the same time like--whoever writes rpd apparently put up some pretty informative posts about the industry and sex in general. so, idk.
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See! And--look, I won't pretend to be straight-edge, although I quit recreational drug use entirely when I was about twenty, but there's still so much that can go awry. Especially if you're using something potently hallucinogenic, for example, which I've even seen claimed by one provider who professes to work in Boston.
It would be nice if they could do that informing as sex work activists instead of pretending they're strippers and escorts. I wonder if some of them are former activists, actually, maybe they got bored with watching from the sidelines?
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Some of them were remarkably like what you describe here, and may or may not have been genuine. At least a few were verifiably not strictly fiction, and most of those tended to thinly veil the men written about for whatever reason. Usually political, or at the very least it'd be a convenient side-effect if he was ruined in the court of public opinion.
The tone was usually different in the ones written by women, and personally I liked them better - but I always thought it was a dangerous thing to do. I probably have a few I could dig out if you'd like, but I'd have to have them translated. How inappropriate would that be for a wedding present?
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Also, I'm not surprised at all by that, and you're right, it is dangerous. Another reason these pretend escorts are suspicious is because they use their working name when they talk really candidly about what they do, and some clients (or people who know those clients, God forbid) can figure it out. Discretion is everything.
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The Emsat thieves court had a finger or three in that particular pie, as I recall, and I imagine whoever was writing from there - I assume not all the authors were Thalesian, it's only a convenient place to get published and distributed at a low cost and high profit - had a little more freedom with her words given the givens, but not everyone can afford that kind of protection and it does come with its own set of strings attached.
"Indiscreet" and "out of work" are frequently interchangeable concepts. I see the point, though; I have my doubts about someone lasting long enough to have many interesting anecdotes if they can't wrap their minds around the fact that putting information out that could get them hurt is a bad idea. If you can't protect your own secrets, with how much people like to talk in bed and near it...
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What's the most interesting story you've heard in one of those books?
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