In this article by Michael J Mooney, the author contacts a provider and invites her to go bowling, and only bowling, so that he could chat with her and (with her permission) write about the experience. He then goes on to tell us what he learned from his other platonic encounters with providers he chose to interview for his story.

It’s your standard “ooh, look what these girls are really like” kind of article, which focuses on desperation and financial difficulty as the primary motivator for becoming a provider. And, of course, he writes a lot about one woman’s experience of being held hostage at gunpoint for three days. (The danger!...)

One thing this list of what makes a good escort points out and one thing that I always have gleaned from the providers who have impressed me is that most providers certainly do this for the money, but they also LIKE SEX and LIKE MEN:

“Don’t Get in This Business If you’re only in it for the Money. You Have to Love Men, and You Must Love Sex…If you don’t truly enjoy having sex with strange men for money, this is the wrong business for you.”

Mooney’s image of a provider as a powerless, down on her luck, desperate woman is just status quo bullcrap. The women I’ve been with, and certainly the ones I’ve revisited, are most often bright, healthy, delightful girls who enjoy their agreed upon relationship with the majority of men who pay for their company.