I don't think calling it a donation will fly in a court of law.  Heck, even that woman who claimed she was a priestess and that the monies were donations to her church didn't get away with it!

When I attend a charity event, sometimes the entrance fee is called a donation.  I never got the impression it was optional, though.  They are providing entertainment or dinner or something for a set price, and the money is going to charity.  

It seems to me that if you state that it costs a certain amount of dollars for a certain amount of time with you, then you are charging for your time (at the very least).  We can play word games, and I do think it's prudent to be no more blatant than necessary, but I doubt that calling it a donation is any less incriminating than calling it a fee.  

Oh, and I very much appreciate the gentlemen I see and the fees they give me.  

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I can only repeat the last sentence of my review of this extraordinary lady:

"Sedona is an addiction, in every good sense of the word."

Regardless of the value she offers in her fee structure, she is, simply put, one of the finest providers around.  Period.