Posted by Maria Rodriguez | August 27, 2025 "I called 911 because a client was threatening me, and when the cops showed up, they arrested me instead of him," Sarah told me, her hands shaking slightly as she recalled the incident from six months ago. "I was the victim calling for help, but they treated me like the criminal. That's when I realized the police weren't going to protect me—they saw me as the problem." Sarah's experience isn't isolated. During two years of reporting, I've documented dozens of cases where well-intentioned law enforcement efforts have gone badly wrong, often making sex workers less safe rather than more protected. Today I want to share some of these stories—not to attack individual officers, but to illustrate how current enforcement approaches often fail everyone involved. The Trafficking Conflation Problem One of the most serious issues I've encountered is law enforcement's tendency to conflate all escort s...
Posted by Julia | 9 min read Everyone has this image in their head of what my clients look like. Rich old perverts in expensive suits, right? Creepy guys who can't get dates any other way? Married men cheating on their wives? Wrong, wrong, and... okay, sometimes right about the last one. But mostly wrong. After two years of doing this work, I've met hundreds of different clients, and the diversity would shock most people. The reasons they're here are way more complex and human than anyone imagines. Let me tell you about some of the real people behind these appointments, because understanding the client perspective completely changed how I think about this work. David: The Widower David was one of my first regular clients, and he completely shattered my expectations about who uses Asian escort services . He's 58, retired from teaching high school math, and his wife died of cancer three years ago after 32 years of marriage. They never had kids, and most of his frie...