I’m friends with sex workers who give comfort just like this. Some of them don’t even have sex on their menus, just physical touch, companionship, and listening. They say it’s exhausting, perhaps even moreso than sex, but the pay is good. There’s boundary issues to watch out for.
With therapy you are a professional who is understood and respected as a professional. With sex work you are understood as a societal problem and being outed as having done sex work can harm other future career prospects.
I used to know a gal who did SW at night, though at the time I wasn’t aware of her occupation. She’d regularly hang out with my buddy and I. One day he was complaining about his back and she offered him a massage, then offered me one as well as I’d been known to have a bad shoulder
While it wasn’t the absolute best massage I’d had, it was up there above most places covered by my medical.
I could 100% see people paying for company and a non-sexual contact from somebody like that. She was good with people and had a sense for now to relax people physically and emotionally.
Yea this is known thing. Sex can be part of it but it’s not really all that important for this kind of thing. Those men (and sometimes women) are so desperate for intimacy they will literally pay for it.
I’m friends with sex workers who give comfort just like this. Some of them don’t even have sex on their menus, just physical touch, companionship, and listening. They say it’s exhausting, perhaps even moreso than sex, but the pay is good. There’s boundary issues to watch out for.
That sounds like therapy with touching and without the responsibility. Probably not a bad job.
Yeah but without the years of training on how to manage and help people’s emotional problems.
and the years of training on compartmentalizing work and personal life.
True. Not a job for me anyway, people are just… ugh.
*to work with
With therapy you are a professional who is understood and respected as a professional. With sex work you are understood as a societal problem and being outed as having done sex work can harm other future career prospects.
Yes, everyone here understood that already
I used to know a gal who did SW at night, though at the time I wasn’t aware of her occupation. She’d regularly hang out with my buddy and I. One day he was complaining about his back and she offered him a massage, then offered me one as well as I’d been known to have a bad shoulder While it wasn’t the absolute best massage I’d had, it was up there above most places covered by my medical.
I could 100% see people paying for company and a non-sexual contact from somebody like that. She was good with people and had a sense for now to relax people physically and emotionally.
Yea this is known thing. Sex can be part of it but it’s not really all that important for this kind of thing. Those men (and sometimes women) are so desperate for intimacy they will literally pay for it.
It’s the macho way of going to therapy.
Are they still called sex workers, then? I mean, your comment is kind of telling, as it is a bit confusing.
Yes. “Sex workers” is the terminology in English. Some people who offer no sex and get registered by the state are professional cuddlers though.