...why would it make them squeamish?  

And why should that reaction be gender-based?  Does a similarly situated man make women squeamish?  

Lila proudly told me she believes she already has 500. She doesn't seem apprehensive about it all.  She has a lot of regulars, and new guys who try her out because of all the reviews.

Maybe I just say it to get you going.  (I've also been accused of sucking up to you, and I do generaly think you are the most reliable most helpful name on TER.)  

I come from a family of all women and even had a good friend who was an opera singer and a provider on the side.  500 reviews for a provider means quite a lot in my book, and book is the operative word.  What book Lila could write!

Gold Star?  No I suggest merely a recognition that it is quite an accomplishment, that it only should make a real sexist squeamish.

I and perhaps most of the rest of us are here because we actually like women and do not judge them.

In that light, my hat is off to her...so to speak