Has anyone ever asked a prossie that offers BB why they do this, or if they are aware of the risks? Im just woundering if their pimp is forcing them to do this or whether they think that if they do catch HIV or herpes they can get it treated and it will go away.
Most STI's all easily treatable if you are tested regularly and although some like Herpes are not curable for the majority any symptoms are so minor as to not even be noticed, and it has no long term ill effects.
Not saying any STI is pleasant - having had gonorrhea myself - but in the great scheme of things I suspect they are just an occupational hazard to an escort. I've spoken to punters on this site who have had STI's themselves and are equally philosophical about them.
The only real concern is HIV. So what is the real risk of an escort contracting HIV? Of course statistics can be deceiving but it's an absolute fact that we do not have anything like an epidemic of HIV here in the UK. The actual number of new infections is falling slightly year on year (at it's peak in the mid 2000's it never got above 8,000 infections per year - in recent times it was just over 6,300 in 2012 and fell to 6,000 in 2013). And it's still true that the vast majority of new infections are in the gay community and black African males.
External Link/Members Onlythere are only around 100,000 people with HIV in the UK (around 80,000 diagnosed, 20k undiagnosed) that's 0.15%, and of these 3/4 are homosexual or bisexual men, or black African males (the latter many escorts exclude possibly because of this).
So assuming that WG's are not seeing gay men and black Africans that leaves around 12,500 potential infected individuals. And of those how many will see escorts? According to
External Link/Members Onlyworst case 8% of the UK male population see escorts in any one year - so let's just say that 8% carries through to the HIV infected population so that makes around 1,000 potentially infected punters.
And the total punting population? Again taking that 8% figure - if the entire adult male population is under 20m, 8% * 20m = 1.6m potential punters - making an escorts rough chance of any one punter they see having HIV being around 1 / 1,600 or so (1,000 out of 1.6m).
Then compound that with the risk of contracting HIV from any single instance of sex based on the
External Link/Members Only. That's hardly a coin toss, nor even russian roulette. Not even close. So the overall chance of a WG contracting HIV in this country still looks really low.
Again I don't want to dismiss the HIV risk but this is borne out by other research that suggests that less than 1% of the escort population in the UK are HIV positive.
As the saying goes, there are lies, damn lies and statistics but the stats do seem to suggest that bb is not the massive risk that some might suggest. Yes, you can expect all kinds of regular STI's - an occupational hazard - but the HIV risk they probably calculate as being very low - and given the available stats it's difficult to argue with.
I'm sure that some punters will call me irresponsible for even suggesting that the risks are low (actually one already has) but you can't get away from the facts and I'd say it's irresponsible to scaremonger. I also am sure that a lot of bb goes on undercover - we've all heard of escorts who offer bb without advertising it and that makes it harder for us to make an informed decision - so I for one would rather bb was not made a taboo or stigmatised but treated as it is - just a (considerably) higher risk form of punting that some of us would prefer to steer clear of.
I genuinely don't expect seeing these stats will encourage too many punters to suddenly go on a bb spree - for an escort STI's may be an occupational hazard but for a punter - especially one who is not single - they can be extremely inconvenient. As would an escort turning up on the doorstep with your child demanding child support.
