Have these times really affected trade?

[Home Alone]

Any time I'm wondering whether to say affected or effected I bottle out and say impacted.

[Pennine Rover]

I mentioned on an thread I started a few days ago on escort numbers that taking the number of girls on AW within 25 miles of me, we are at about 60% of the pre lockdown figure. By and large the Roms have gone and a few local girls are sitting it out. There still seem to be plenty of Thai girls working.  Never very sure how they manage to get here in such numbers and stay.
I think you also have to factor in Seeking and similar sites (even Tinder).  They can be hard work but you can get your own SB for much less than punting. They are less likely to be seeing other guys.

[Marmalade]

I wouldn`t worry, I`ve just noticed a couple of split infinitives go unchallenged

Even finding their way into once-respectable newspapers these days. Utterly disgusting. I bet Reese-Mogg would pass a law against 'em. 

Not something it is 'politically correct' to pull people up on though. One should simply silently observe, from one's superior heights casually slouched, which are the poor uneducated lowlifes among us. 

But on a forum where we are talking about fucking pussy, ffs, whether intentionally or not, it is fitting to be 'street'. The posh geezers end up overpaying. The working class man has the insights.

[Marmalade]

I mentioned on an thread I started a few days ago on escort numbers that taking the number of girls on AW within Never very sure how they manage to get here in such numbers and stay.

If worse comes to worse, I hear there are plenty of boats available in Calais... 

I think you also have to factor in Seeking and similar sites (even Tinder).  They can be hard work but you can get your own SB for much less than punting. They are less likely to be seeing other guys.

There's a theory occasionally put forward by some hardy individuals that escorts, p4p, those seeking handouts where sex is a mere trifling side effect, are not prostitutes at all but actually in-duh-viduals or ... wait for it ... real people! 

I find this theory a bit dubious and hard to believe personally. It is not, as far as I know, supported by any double-blind, statistically significant, peer-reviewed study and thus one must say that there is no scientific evidence to say that prostitutes are also people. 

[Payyourwaymate]

I would have thought so, everything else seems to be going down the shitter. I still see WGs charging like we are not in a recession and we are in a roaring economy instead though, so I may be wrong.

[Marmalade]

I would have thought so, everything else seems to be going down the shitter. I still see WGs charging like we are not in a recession and we are in a roaring economy instead though, so I may be wrong.

How a businessman thinks in a recession:
“People have less money so I’ll reduce prices to get more customers So I can feed my children.’   
Visits Bognor Regis instead of Disneyland.

How a p4p thinks during a recession:
“There’s less customers so I’ll charge each of them more so I can feed my face.” 
Eats more pies and books a health spa while doing her nails.

[Helloyou75001]

Quote from a review:
" Post punt, Chantelle said that the moment lockdown was announced her phone went mad, even though she stopped working for 10 weeks.  She said her typical client is 30 plus, and that for them the idea of being stuck at home with the wife and kids was a nightmare.  She was inundated with desperate punters all asking the same question: ‘please, please make an exception for me…!’ "

Clearly they have more business than usual

[billybobsmith]

I tried a load in Manchester yesterday and out of everyone I messaged / texted:

One already had an outcall booked in the evening so was busy.
One had already seen someone today so wasn't seeing anyone else.
All the others, whether or not showing as "available today", ignored me.  Still no response from a single one of them.

Either they're so inundated with punters there aren't enough hours in the day, or they just don't want the money.

[jordan452]

It’s the same here in London, I found most well known providers are fully booked when you contact them.

[dj_486]

Lincolnshire is a punting desert at the best of times but there has been very little choice going. I've had two bookings this week and both cancelled for one reason or another