In December,, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down laws that made brothels, communicating for the purpose of prostitution and living off its avails illegal. Parliament now has a year to rewrite the laws. Over the next 11 months, the Sun will look at the issue from different angles through a serious of periodical articles. For more articles, go to ottawasun. Valerie is a temporary girlfriend, an independent escort in Ottawa. She makes it very clear, she is NOT a prostitute.
Most of her clients are older — several are divorced, many are lonely. On her website, funvalerie. An escort will spend quality time with you, talk to you, and treat you like a person who has sexual wants and needs. A lot of people are missing affection. They want to be touched and rubbed all over. This is a huge downside. False expectations are a potential prelude to violence. Prostitution will happen and we need to take off our rose-coloured glasses and figure out how to have prostitution as safe as possible for the women involved.
Business is sometimes scarce for Valerie, who has a college degree in business. She has a part-time job as a clerical worker. I liked the flexible hours, I liked being self-employed, I liked organizing my own website. In the beginning, I made a lot of money. Then, not as much. She put , km on Toyota Corolla, driving it into the ground.
She says the business is not as lucrative as you might think. That dose of reality ensures there is a big turnover.
Girls get in, girls get out — they quit. Valerie compares women in the escort business to actresses. While stars like Angelina Jolie make huge money, she says, most actresses earn very little and quit the business. There is no salary. But low income is better than no income. I hate the agencies that advertise you can make thousands of dollars a day. The young girls see the ads, they want to make all this money.
