So, one would think with a declining customer base, prices would drop. Apparently, guys visiting escorts have dropped off the cliff because of coronavirus (granted its a freaking Yahoo article).

The supply has also dropped off as well.  These girls have fixed costs that aren’t going to be covered by cutting rates and making it up in volume.  If you can’t cover your costs and drive the other suppliers out of business, you’re not going to pump it, but leave it in the well.  Supply comes down at the same time as demand, resulting in an equilibrium price almost the same as before.

The rest is mainly taxes and of course some profit for the retailer.  

What I am noticing is a lot of chatter of girls asking other girls if they think it's ok to drop rates, almost as if they are asking for permission. They don't want to be "disloyal to the cause" so they are leaking it out there, like a trial balloon, looking for reactions.

We'll see where this all goes. I just find it interesting that there is even talk about escorts dropping their prices when in the economic downturn of 2009, hooker prices were rock solid and went up from some pretty high prices after the crisis.

True.

This is so short-term, though. If you have 3 months of savings you should be fine. Go take a vacation.

I don't get wtf is going on right now, meaning, everyone is losing their fucking minds. Buying up bottled water and toilet paper.  

Price is not my concern right now. Lowered rates is of no benefit to the ladies or to us. Price is not the impetus  here. The concern is Contagion. You can not put a price on the guilt you’d experience from Killing your loving mother because you just had to hobby with a hottie.  

The girls biz very gradually fell off back then, over many months, as the recession didn't hit all the guys all at once. This is a much greater and quicker shock to this biz and thus so much more severe.  

My heart goes out to them and all service industry workers. I’ve had many friends in the restaurant and catering industries get furloughed already. I can only imagine what providers with kids are going through. My ATF is looking at having her kids home for the next 3-4 weeks, and she did most of her business while they’re in school. I imagine single mom nurses probably will have it the worst sometime between mid-April and mid-May when the number of infected creeps up into the millions here in the US if the trend continues.

Stop being cheap

I wonder if this will drive many girls out of this biz, who do it on a full time basis, as they just wont want to go through this again.

Do you really think a little thing like a virus is going to chase women who choose this path into getting civvie jobs?  

I clearly said girls that do it "FULL TIME" and ALSO said girls who do this "exclusively" may look to ADD a civie job to their hooking and NOT get out of hooking.  

That the first three weeks of April are traditionally slow as customers that can afford pussy are the ones PAYING taxes, not getting refunds.

Great post, and good point. There are real people in a real crisis. I came across as pretty callous, mea culpa.

If you're good at DATY, you don't need to buy water.  Pussy juice is mostly water.  

$31.50 is right about what oil is selling for right now. No typos on my part and for once your math is actually correct.  

If you were so careless with your real world info, I hope they take you to the cleaners and separate you from every cent. Oh and I hope they sell your data to every eastern bloc scammer and telemarketer in India.
LOL

Then why did you give her the means to do so in the first place?

Your post is still there for all to see, PLEASE point out where you said that  

Ooops. I thought you guys were talking about the price of a barrel of oil, not the price of gasoline at the pump. (75 cents for a barrel of oil, not a gallon of oil, at the well head was consistent with what I had heard.)  Nevertheless, I still disagree with GaG about some of the details.  
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Refining the crude oil to gasoline adds to the price of gasoline, too. That can be 35 to 70 cents per gallon of gasoline (time and location dependent).  Also, there is a delay to get from crude oil to gasoline to the pump. The gasoline at the pump was made from oil that was bought and paid for a week to months ago.  As everybody knows, when the price of crude oil goes up, the price of gas at the pump goes up immediately (even though it was made from cheaper oil). When the price of crude oil drops, the price of gas at the pump stays up or only drops slowly.  
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There are so many steps in getting from oil in the ground to gasoline in your car, you have to be careful about where you draw the line to state a cost and who makes what profit. Back to the Middle East, using numbers the oil exec guy told me several years ago, the oil companies get oil at the well head for less than $1 per barrel.  Add land transport (pipeline or  trucks), sea transport (oil tankers), ... and you eventually reach $31/barrel (or $100/barrel or whatever).  There is a cost of gasoline at the refinery, but then add the cost to transport the gasoline to a local distributor ... local truck driver delivering the gas to your station, gas station mark up. It all adds up.  
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I was talking to a guy at local gas+mart. He said that his profit is fixed at a fixed value of cents PER GALLON (less than 10 cents per gallon) NOT a per centage. When the price of gas goes up and his volume goes down, he loses. When the price of gas goes down and his volume goes up, he makes more.  
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I'm always looking for the best gasoline price. That's why I like Donny's Discount Gas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqad5J9xtrU
$1.49 and EIGHT tenths

The price of oil right NOW is about $30 bbl which means the cost of the underlying oil in the price of a gallon of gasoline is just what I said, "about $.75" a gallon,  

YOU were talking over there --> * about the price of a gallon of gasoline at the pump. But I thought you were talking about crude oil. Someone asked about the price of crude and how nation-states were trying to screw the US oil industry. So I was focused on crude, not gas.
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I was talking over here .*. about the price of crude oil.  When I thought you were talking about the price of crude oil, I thought that "75 cents per gallon" was a typo for "75 cents per barrel" which is close to what I was told by an oil exec several years ago as their price of oil at the well (in Kuwait or Qatar or ?). Transportation, profit and other costs add to that and OPEC and the markets bring it to the current price of $31.50 (or $131 if there's a shortage and not a glut).  
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I then understood that you were saying that the crude oil portion of the price of a gallon of gasoline at the pump is around 75 cents:  "The cost of oil only accounts for about $.75 a gallon [of gasoline]. The rest is mainly taxes and of course some profit for the retailer." I was drilling down [double entendre] on the price of the oil itself and the many other steps involved to get oil in the ground to gas in your tank.  
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That is, I think you were looking at all of the line items that get oil out of the ground and to the gas+mart, summed it all up and called it 75 cents due to the entire oil-to-gas station supply chain. I preferred to break it down to explicitly remind readers of the many steps needed to get gasoline into your tank.
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I would just further point out that less than half of a 42 gallon barrel of oil ends up as automobile gasoline at the pump. (Ignore the coincidental numbers based on current pricing: $31.50 per barrel / 42 gallons per barrel  = 75 cents per gallon of crude oil.  (1) If less than half of each gallon of crude is used for gasoline, shouldn't it add LESS than 75 cents to the price of each gallon of gas? NO! Refineries are in business to make a profit on every fraction! (2) One gallon of crude oil (thick and dense) produces more than one gallon of gasoline (thin and light; floats on water) and thicker, heavier tars.

I just bought gas for 1.99/9 gallon.  I think two weeks ago it was still 2.69.   That's a significant and fast drop. (I also actually got it at 1.69/9 due to my grocery rewards card, but that wasn't the normal pump price.)
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Crude price changes ripple through to the pump price pretty fast, both up and down.  

Wow.

Stop being overpriced.

You do know people aren’t seeing one another to stop the spread of the disease right? This has nothing to do with prices and everything to do with Health.

Try drinking a cup of gas and get back to me. lol

I feel like if a guy feels entitled to a discount because the coronavirus is hurting people financially, he's probably going to be the one to spread it.

I do agree that an "opportunist" looking for deals due to a crisis is also VERY likely not to care about spreading it. As for specials, I don't have any problems with providers offering "Corona specials" despite my tongue in cheek OP about one, I just don't feel that as someone more able to deal with the financial aspects of this crisis that I should be taking advantage of someone less able to weather the storm.  

Some of us potential clients are looking to whether we will be employed in a week.  I'm at a start up company that was in its second round of investor financing.  Really bad timing.  Deals were likely to close.  Now investors may turn cautious.  If we don't get the next round we close the doors.   Suddenly I don't have entertainment dollars.