No joke her, I’m actually considering getting out of the hobby. Am I the only one?
1. While my income, and everyone else’s that I know, has remained unchanged for the last 7 years - providers have (many of them) increased their rates by 30%. That makes a difference.
2. ECCIE was my go to board for finding honest and complete reviews of providers who could easily be contacted on the board. Changes in ECCIE in the last several years had made that dauntingly difficult. One of the providers a few years back chose to leave the board after likening it to Christian Mingle after all the changes. It’s terribly difficult even with premium services. I get the Trump Admin. brought about conditions that made the old format impossible to maintain but there are offshore servers the system could have moved to.
3. Alternatively I used to use Backpages. Not sure why but I found no small number of honest providers on BP both here on the coast and in the DC Area. That vanished and we are left with Skip The Games as a replacement. As we all know STG presents 2 or 3 real provider ads surrounded by 20 fakes and scam attempts.
4. There were a ton of really good providers on the coast for years. Variety was indeed the spice of life here and all the good ones had ECCIE accounts. One of the top tier providers lives in VA now. We still have a couple of good ones and one of them only does incall 1 day a week. I don’t know what happened to the 8 - 10 other good local providers. They seem to have vanished.
5. Finally let’s talk about AMPs. Their all gone and apparently are not coming back. I know, there were rumors of human trafficking and I believe that is a very real and disposable practice but it clearly was not occurring in every case and in every AMP. That being said, there were always 3 - 4 AMPs that were only worth your time if you had a grandma fetish. And then there was JJs/777 OMG I miss that place. But their left wing yoga lady next door neighbor stirred up so much crap for them the LE’s eventually put them at the top of their priority list. Human trafficking , no. Anyone who bothered to actually talk to any of those Korean girls would find they all lived on the west coast, NJ, NC etc. , were there to pick up fast cash and usually went back home after a month and returned when the extra money ran out but they all came and went at will.
Hobbies are supposed to be fun. This one was for years but at least here on the Coast it is a real choir to locate new providers who are not going to try to scam you later or charge more per hour than a neurosurgeon. I am seriously considering getting out of the hobby. At this point in time there are to many risks, to much work avoiding those risks, and frankly the rates for the new or visiting providers has far exceeded the rate of local economic inflation.
Thoughts?