Oh keep reading about the brothel experience! I cover a lot of the points you mentioned.

The $100 baseline was a Bella’s thing, not a massage-parlour thing. The girls who had been at Bella’s for a while had regulars, just as every working girl anywhere develops regulars.

My mentor worked at the Moonlight Ranch and made a fortune. She was a top-notch provider there, though I don’t think a GFE. The whole atmosphere of a brothel really doesn’t engender a GFE experience, IMO.

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All I know of NV houses is what I saw on TV, but I’ve been a regular at many full service massage parlors (illegal brothels) and can offer my own experience.

$100 is the magic number for sex in parlors, and it may be where your clientele picked it up. That goes for the minimum half-hour visit and can be even less, but I don’t haggle. If buying the whole hour, it’s customary to tip twice that.
This tip is paid directly to the provider, BTW, and independent of the (fixed) house fee for time. I heard that some is kicked back to the house, but am not positive.

So an hour can reach the expense of an escort (not high end). And although I’m more of your escort client type, I enjoy the total freedom and control of brothels. The last escort I saw ended up being a scheduling nightmare and made me regret the amount of control I had without appointments, exposure, and delays.

Brothels are the fast-food joints of sex, while hookers are the street vendors, and escorts the independant restaurants (my read). Some escorts are apparently as exclusive as the finest Rodeo Drive establishments where the riff raff is not allowed.
So you think you’d get what you pay for, but as in the food industry, it’s not always the case.

I believe that you’re right that most hobbyists and (whore)mongers are just in it for the quick fix. They are fickle, money-conscious and impulsive. They hop from place to place and always look for new girls and stimulation. They focus on what they talk about in reviews (stats and rates), while the rest of us have experiences that can’t be quantified.
So many brothels naturally cater to that approach and don’t focus on quality. They do move you in and out quick.

But some houses, and some providers there, are very responsive to a different “class” of clientele, like you would. Regulars are safer and predictable, and good tippers a bonus. We know that haggling is insulting and demeaning to both parties.
An old favorite haunt of mine had seen actors, attorneys, and movie execs, on top of a parade of local cops (lol), for example.

Settings aside, the brothel experience is absolutely comparable to the one provided by escorts if the provider is gifted and has the right attitude. And many girls will try and “steal” regulars from the house and see them outside, which I’ve enjoyed too, with the added satisfaction that they keep ALL proceeds.
Those are generally NOT the kind of women that one would take to the opera or an official function and hope to get away with it, mind you, but I’m not in that class of clients either.

One has to beware of stereotypes, as usual, if Amanda Brooks can be encountered in a brothel, or a conversation in French can be had with a Korean masseuse who studied in Paris…

Cheap girlfriends? Maybe. Girlfriends-for-rent for sure.

I think it’s probably very difficult, for a successful escort, to work in a brothel. The move up the other way is only hard for those who prefer to be told what to do, and how, and when… Very much like the “employee vs. independent contractor” situations.
The obvious bonus for us readers here is an intelligent and worldly observer giving a detailed look that most insiders don’t have enough perspective for. It’s like investigative journalism without the sensationalism and with more insight.

I did it stone cold sober. Though dealing with the brothel’s policies were more of a problem than the men. The brothel sets the tone for the way the customers behave.

If I’d worked there longer? Yeah, might’ve developed some sort of substance abuse issue.

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Yea.. though I give quite a bit to the escort services in town when I get tipped. I can’t imagine making only half of my tip. Ugh. There’s no way of lying about your tip (yes I am of course guilty of it!) so you can’t get away with keeping more than you’d like to give due to time and what we do. This is my biggest dilemma from trying to work in brothels.

Love your series so far… you seem to be doing exactly what I am curious about what goes on here in the brothels. I really doubt I could do it so I admire what you are doing for sure