5 Types Of Sex Work

Escorting can mean a lot of different services, some sexual and some not.

There are also two different types of escort: independent and agency.

In the first case, escorts will manage every aspect of their profession: market their services using a number of channels (most of them online, from generic social media platforms to specific directories), and deal with direct customer communications prior to their booking.

For the latter, escorts working with agencies don’t usually have to do as much self-promotion, as the agency they work with will provide this instead.

Most of the time, agency escorts show up to meet their clients and do what they were hired to do. The agency has passed all of the preliminary checks.

For either type of escort, the client can hire an escort for a specific amount of time.

They can also choose between an outcall service, where the escort meets the client at a hotel or the client's home, or an incall service, where the client has to meet the escort at their home.

Rates will vary based on the service provided.

It’s worth pointing out that escorting is a profession open to all sexes and thus caters to all tastes.

From heterosexual escorts (both male and female) and gay escorts to transgender escorts, all will differ in the sexual services offered to the client.

Again, some escorts will not offer sex at all but rather will simply accompany the client to public functions, while others will provide a service that will include some sort of sexual service.

If you are a potential client, it’s important that once you arrange to meet an escort, you make it clear where your interests lie prior to the meet-up because, again, the services are at the escort’s discretion. Be sure you don’t become a timewaster by wasting the escort’s time as well as your own.

2. Phone

Phone sex involves a phone conversation between the sex worker and the client.

The conversation is sexually explicit, usually involving candid discussions revolving around sexual kinks and fantasies. Its aim is to evoke sexual arousal.

Phone sex and the hotline service boomed in the late Eighties, helping sex workers to monetize without having to leave the comfort of their houses.

The caller was not calling the service provider directly but was usually re-routed from a switchboard and charged by the minute.

Today, a wide array of technical options are available at all levels, and phone sex operator work is often provided via VoIP lines and other online messaging services.

3. Lap dancer

An exotic dancer or lap dancer will perform a striptease for clients. In some cases, this may involve some sort of nudity. This type of sex work usually involves close proximity with limited sexual contact.

These superficial contacts may include some touching and some nudity.

Different people call this kind of touching different things, like a "contact dance" or a "couch contact dance."

Not to be confused with "pole dancing," where the artist usually stays away from the crowd and only dances on a stage, lap dance is completely different.

4. Webcam

Most commonly known as ‘webcamming’, this type of service usually involves someone performing sexual acts streamed online. It is the latest development in the adult entertainment sector and the technological evolution of phone sex.

Clients can enter via video chat and provide ‘tips’ for sexual acts, requesting what they’d like to see.

Prices for this type of service can vary. Clients can opt between private cam rooms or public ones, where the cam girl performs for an unlimited number of people joining the video chat.

Webcams have meant that sex workers can reach a wider audience while taking control of the final marketing and distribution of their product.

This is evident from the number of camgirls that have successfully launched their own subscription services.

5. Massage parlour (includes sexual services)