We are considering newspaper advertisment in San Diego.  What Weekly paper runs the escort ads?  Which would you recommend?

Thanks!

-- Staff

Dawn Media Press (or something like that)

They still take massage ads from ladies that are reviewed on this site.  However, they stopped taking escort ads many years ago.  It was a shame at the time because it was a decent resource to find FS Independent ladies in the days before the proliferation of the Internet.  If you place an ad as a generic website, they would probably take your ad.  I've seen ads for strip clubs in the past.

Another place to advertise would be signage at or near a place like the F Street Bookstores.  The people who shop at this chain of stores tend to be more open minded to various lifestyles.

For an "alternative" newspaper, the SD Reader is surprisingly conservative. It's as though the city elders decided to scotch all free speech in San Diego by buying up all news outlets, print, radio and TV.

I agree with the above post -- the SD Reader is very unlikely to take any TER advertisements.

Swing is about the only game in town for advertising sites like TER. The SD Reader will not do it, they don't even have an Escort section ( they used too several yrs ago but discontinued it ) and they require anyone who advertises in the Massage section to have a license and to post it with their ad.

The SD Union doesn't even run ads for adult clubs.

Another Dawn Media paper. I agree with JBird, swing is probably the most popular for alternative lifestyles.

got herpes?  need a divorce lawyer?  how about a bailbondsman or instant credit?  TER is here to help?

Staff, besides membership and advertisement dollars, what about providing regional listing of services associated with TER's basic service (reviews)?  Create a portal, so if newbie hobbyist in San Diego gets busted by the wife or john law, then he knows which businesses are TER friendly.  Same for providers -- need a financial planner?  What about local psychiatrists who specialize in sexual disfunction?  Craftsman who specialize in waterbeds, etc.

I figure there's more growth in being a portal than there ever will be in membership, unless the economy really tanks and then it wouldn't hurt to have career counselors in the chat rooms....

just an idea,

I think you will get no love from the reader. Swing will your best bet.

It would be an eye-opening experience for most of the board participants to go to the San Diego Union morgue and view newspapers in the early to mid-'70's. In these days, the San Diego was loaded with massage and escort ads (mostly massage, but really escort). Plus you have to add in possibly >100 massage parlors (almost one on every corner in mid-city) and featuring "virtually every kind of girl". Full service would have been approx. $40 ($160 in 2003 dollars) in the early '70's, going up to approx. $100-$125 in early 1980's.

These halcyon days pretty much ended with the rise of such politicians as Pete Wilson, the accession of Helen Copley as publisher of the San Diego Union, and the arrival of such power brokers as Ray Kroc (MacDonalds). They all acted in concert to close down the party.

Just a little something that you'll never find in Ken Kramer's (KNSD TV) great series (now defunct): "About San Diego".

This si Chassy and i advertise in swing as well as the internet. Swing will definitly put your ad in there the phone#is (619)299-0500 and ask for Norman (it is $50 for 2 weeks) (ie)