Interesting article about sex workers. TER gets mentioned.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/sex-workers-legalization-c-v-r.html

' The internet may have made it easier for sex workers to operate like independent entrepreneurs, but it also seems to have increased clients’ demands. “Men want more,” Jimenez says. “Men’s and young boys’ introduction to intimacy is gonzo porn, where you play out the fantasy of brutalizing women.” The women who come through her program tell her that the industry “is more violent because pornography is more violent. [Johns] want extra shit, or they don’t wanna do it safely.” '

And confirms what I have believed for a long time. Most, if not all ( I can't speak for them) of the providers I have been with would never have been working if it were not for the internet. In other words, it made things a whole lot easier.
I can speak for my self and I never would have had anything to do with a girl that came up and knocked on car window on a street corner. No way.. Internet , at some level, has offered legitimacy and security. TER creates an environment where reputations do matter for everyone.

nice

Since the discovery of fire up to the internet you can list good and bad for every invention, so it is no different with the effects on sex work.

Aren't you still on TER Version 1.0?

Most of my clients who are over 45 aren't really into the bad porn, hair pulling, butt slapping, gagging, choking stuff that seems ubiquitous in online porn these days. I hear more about it from young girls who come to see me in my psych work. They report boyfriends asking for anal and being rough and these are 16 year olds watching shitty porn and thinking that's how sex is done. Luckily most men can separate screen from reality just like most women know romance movies aren't real life either )

What did you find interesting about the article?  Do you learn anything new?  Did it challenge or reinforce any of your beliefs?

He knows enough to block you at all times and from any source.

If anyone saw this site I do believe it would shin a light on professional conduct and discretion we all use here . Safe clean elegant site. Thumbs up guys.

So cut me a little slack.