I was just reading a comment from Miss. Red, on another thread about friendships when you're in the industry. I have maintained most of my friendships through the past 3 decades, working as a WG or in hospitality, all of them knows what I do and accept me. I'm very open to what I do, when meeting new people and they ask what I do for a living, 80% of the time I tell them straight up. The way I look at it: If anyone is going to jump on their high horse, immediately judge me, have an attitude or look down on me because of what I do, then I don't want to be friends with them. Definitely not worth the effort to befriend anyone who thinks themselves better than others. I simply CAN'T STAND anyone who's judgemental. Get to know me and you'll see there's a warm, funny, intelligent, wise and caring person. You'll be lucky to have me as a friend. It's bad that in this day and age that "society" can't accept us as just normal everyday people.

Good on you for being who you are.

Me I am a totally different person.

It is definitely not because I am afraid of being judged, I am at peace with me and my life choices. I am a very private person in general.

I don't make friends easily.. I have trust issues;) lol Punters as friends are safe they move in the same world as me.

I also really dont have time or oppertunity to cultivate friendships out side of my "job" My job as an Sp takes up 70-80 persent of my time. if I aint with a client, I am answering calls/emails/pms, making remote content or washing linen,towels,ect ect.

And if I want to offer a private and discreet experience to my client my occupation as SP cant be public knowledge in my immediate community.

Can you imagine the whole block of apartments where I stay knowing I am a SP because I went around introdusing myself as one..that just wont do. That would make my claim to being private and discreet a joke.. because everytime a guy might pass a neighbour of mine on the passage they would know exactly why he is there. There goes the discretion out the window.

Everyone lifes a life that works for them, for me this works... I have peace and no drama. I have no one that will come knocking at my door to borrow sugar while I am with a client. Because I dont make friends with neighbours either. My neighbours infact all think i am a "mislike vroumems" because I dont like to chit chat.. I greet and thats it;)

WG's are fighting a stigma that goes back hundreds of years.

As an SP you are assumed to have zero "self-respect" , prey on other womens' husbands, break marriages et etc etc.

There is no room in modern society (or ancient society) for, it's what you do, not who you are.

I have had SP's bemoan the fact that they can have no close friends, no lover, in essence not a normal life and live a fantasy of "one day I'll get out of the industry" Some live the dream and go on to other careers.

The modern world survives the ethos, people making themselves feel good by putting others down, eg the epidemic of bullying at schools.