🧵: predatory middlemen inserting themselves into digital sex work as "studios" or "agencies" to exploit sex workers

and why this concerns me.

are digital pimps the new 'job interview that turns out to be for cutco knives' for online #SexWork?

#AutisticSWers #SWerAdvice

bsky.app/profile/suga...

Please research your new endeavor thoroughly

especially before you sign a contract with a company that offers to "manage" you or be your "studio" or "agency."

What are they doing that you could or wouldnot do?

What limitations are they creating that you wouldn't have otherwise?

#SWerAdvice

Here's why the content of this 🧵matters:

Because new #SexWorkers

just like new kinksters

are hearing about SW opportunities daily,

but not every opportunity is a good one.

Some are exploitative.

Some will damage them.

Some will be so much worse.

#SWerAdvice

I would rather be able to just not work on a day I'm feeling bad and choose to work a little longer on some other day

than be held accountable to "workdays" and "vacation time".

And I certainly would not underprice myself like this studio is forcing my new acquaintance to. #SWerAdvice

If you sign up with a "studio" that gives you "paid vacation" but forces you to work for far less than your time is worth for a set amount of time

you're kind of denying yourself the agency to ACTUALLY work as much or as little as you need to.

You're signed up to be exploited. #SWerAdvice

so, #SWerAdvice,

if you're thinking about getting into a new part of the business

using a new site for work

any of that...

read their help documentation.

Sites like #NiteFlirt do not require you to work with a studio. You can sign up all by yourself.

#SWerAdvice: you probably don't need to give your control or profits to a studio on most sites that enable you to run your own business

especially on a #phonesex site like #NiteFlirt.

I've met someone "employed" by a studio who isn't allowed to raise her price per minute for calls or cam.

#AutisticSWers

don't get too caught up in "service topping" and feel like you have to do it to the letter, just based on what they say.

you're the one in charge. make it fun for yourself.

#SWerAdvice

#SWerAdvice #PhoneSexOperator #PSOAdvice #NiteFlirtAdvice

Surprised pikachu meme. The label for the surprised pikachu is, "the guy who didn't book an appointment when the shows up on his timetable, but sees I didn't leave my line open waiting for him:"

I never turn down a call from another client if a guy says he'll "call me tomorrow" but didn't book an appointment. my appt deposit is only $10.

guys who don't make appointments but say "i'll call you tomorrow" realize their mistake very quickly.

Appointment deposits. Try it.

#SWerAdvice

P.S.

another fun part of not being constantly available creating a sense of exclusivity that increases demand

is that you can use it to force clients to pay to book appointments with you if they REALLY don't want to gamble on your schedule or wait.

#SWerAdvice #AutisticSWers

If they can't reach me because 3 other dudes paid to keep me on the lines 2-4 hours and then I decided I was done working for the night

then they just try harder the next time I'm online.

So, again, some of the most essential #SWerAdvice:
Don't be available 24-7.
(and raise your damn price!)

a cartoon of a chicken sitting on a chair with the words `` remember , absence makes the heart grow fonder '' Alt: That scene from Disney's Robin Hood where the chicken lady-in-waiting or whatever says, "remember , absence makes the heart grow fonder"

I am in several #PSO communities where #PhoneSexOperator bad advice is shared too often

and the worst one is, "leave your line on 24-7"

No. Don't.

not just because your boundaries, personal time, + sanity are important

but because you're not giving your perverts any time to miss you

#SWerAdvice

And now, the seed of tonight's #SWerAdvice #PSOAdvice for distance sex workers, especially fellow #PhoneSexOperator s:

bsky.app/profile/suga...

Yes, we have to show up to this job enough to be around to provide the services to get paid.

NO, we do not owe them all our time or being on-call.

So yet again, more #SWerAdvice #SexWorkerAdvice for all, esp #AutisticSWers :

Please trust your gut. Please please please trust your gut more than the need for money.

This guy is apparently whale money to other operators. But most didn't like his kinks. IDC about the kinks, his vibe was off.

Laughing Leonardi DiCaprio meme captioned, "When the client says he needs a discount." (For the unfamiliar, this meme shows Leonardo DiCaprio as a reprehensible rich old white guy in Django Unchained, laughing judgmentally while dressed up in a nice suit and holding a crystal glass of some expensive beverage)

In fact, my most frequest advice, which I sometimes DM other new or steeply underpriced providers on NiteFlirt to tell them, is RAISE YOUR PRICE.

It's better for your mental health and wallet.

#OnlineSexWorkAdvice #SexWorkers #PSOs #PhoneSexOperators #SWerAdvice