First of all, please do think carefully before you go ahead; sex work can be a dangerous industry. We are sure you know this but if you’ve made your mind up, hopefully this “How To Be An Escort – Quick Start Guide” page will be of use to you.

How To Be An Escort – Decide Which Services You Will Offer

Because you don’t have to offer full sex. Some sex workers only offer massage and hand relief, or any combination of erotic services. If you just want to advertise massage and dirty talk while the guys get themselves off, then you can.

How To Be An Escort – Gadgets

Get a PAYG phone from Tesco and top up with their mobile top up vouchers (usually at the cigarette kiosk). Pay in cash and your phone is anonymous.

Download the Client Eye app.

Get a cheap rape alarm from Amazon.

More Info: Client Eye will alert you to any dodgy, timewasting punters so you can safely ignore their calls if you want to. It costs about £3.99 a month at the time of writing, or around £30 for the year. Well worth it.

How To Be An Escort – Advertising As An Independent

Decide if you are willing to let Adultwork have your official ID on file – if it’s not a problem, register with them.

Tip: Be aware that punters get notified of new people signing up and some of them can try to take advantage of you.

Tip: Don’t take much notice of Adultwork feedback, unless they are warnings, in which case, avoid. Some sex workers and punters swap positive feedback to boost their profiles, even when they’ve had a shit experience.

If you don’t like the idea of advertising on Adultwork, you’re probably going to have to get creative and add your profile to different platforms, and most of them are hardly worth it. There’s Viva Street which comes up super high in search but is full of fake glamorous profiles. You can be on page three for around twelve pounds a week but if you want to be on the first page, you’re looking at around eighty quid for the same duration. You can pay with Neosurf vouchers which you buy from a store that has Pay Point (the Co-op usually has them). Most cashiers have never heard of Neosurf so tell them to go to cash vouchers and the Neosurf option should appear.

We would recommend Viva Street if you aren’t going down the Adultwork route.

How To Be An Escort – Letting Others Advertise For You

You can sign up with an escort agency, who will usually have regular clients. Competition is tough here, too, but if you’re gorgeous, you should be ok. If you are an older woman, look for escort agencies that cater to that market.

There are massage parlours that are often looking for new women.

There are also escort agencies that have working flats. They take care of all the advertising and some will allow you to get your own bookings from your own advertising. They will take a heavy cut though. Also, you don’t get to vet their clients, and as the (usually) woman answering the phone wants to earn as much as possible, she can send anyone round. We have had experience of this and wouldn’t do it again, although some women prefer to work this way because then they don’t have to take numerous calls from idiots with no intention of booking.

How To Be An Escort – Where To Work From As An Independent

Hotels. You want to look for the biggest you can find and also check whether they are keycarded or not, because if they are, you’ll have to come down to let your men up to your room which is awkward.

Serviced apartments are also a good idea. If you go to Hotels.com, you can see what’s on offer. Apartments are better because you don’t have to worry about guys walking past reception; apartments are super discreet. The only downside is that you’ll have to pay a damage deposit.

Adultwork have a “to let” section for touring escorts.

You can also do outcalls. You won’t get as much work but you’ll be saving on accommodation.

How To Be An Escort – Quick Start Guide: Other Things To Think About

Tax. You don’t have to worry about it immediately but you’ll have to start paying once you have regular money coming in, otherwise you can’t really spend it.

Privacy. Are you going to be doing this job in secret? If so, you’ll need to come up with an explanation as to how you are earning your money and where you are when your friends and family can’t get hold of you.

Don’t add photos to your escort work profiles that you have online elsewhere in your private life. You might think that cute photo of you on Facebook wearing jeans and a skimpy top might attract more clients on your escort profile but a reverse image search (yes, some weirdo punters do this) will bring up your Facebook page.

Partners. Will you tell your partner you’re doing this? If not, think about only offering oral with protection (condom on). There’s less risk with ball licking.

Family and Friends. Do you tell them or not? If you don’t want to, think of a job for yourself which can explain your movements.

Touring Vs Staying In One Area. Maybe start off somewhere and see how it goes.

Getting your own website. If you are in it for the long haul, it might be worth getting a website. It takes roughly a year to get found in search and even then you’ll probably be on page three. But with more time, you could edge closer to page one and even be on the first page if you specialize in any areas and use those keywords in your text.

In A Nutshell – What We Would Do If We Were Just Starting Out

We wanted to keep this “how to be an escort – quick start guide page” reasonably short so that you don’t get information overload.

We would give Adultwork a miss (actually you can try them without using your private email addresses just to double check if they need your ID immediately or not) and advertise ourselves on Viva Street. We would get the free Perfect Me phone app to tidy up our photos. We would search for a large hotel to work from and go there for a drink or just go in for a nosey (find out if the lifts and corridors are key carded because you don’t want them to be), and try one night to start off with – just to ease into it because it can be so daunting if you’re new. Some prefer hotels and some prefer apartments to work from, so try both and see how you feel.