where pen-pals should go
May 22, 2012 Adult Industry, Random Bits, Sex
Someone (possibly a retired escort?) has finally figured it out. You can have the best pen-pal of all, for a fee, of course. Just like the guys who constantly write escorts without ever setting up an appointment, you will never meet your fake Internet girlfriend. Plans start at $250/month and go up depending on amount of contact required (sounds familiar). Seems to be the real deal, though I do wonder just how many different people are actually in the talent pool and if they are all actually females (it’s pretty easy to fool guys online).
Personally, I’m waiting for FakeHooker.com to debut. Oh wait, nevermind.
Tags: girlfriend, internet sex work, pen pals
May 22nd, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Dear Ms. Brooks:
I was wondering how often would you get this harassment? Also what is the nature and scope of the conversations and would you have other colleagues that would be experiencing similar harassment in prose? Also is there certain questions that are asked that are indicators that the person will never book for a variety of reasons? Also at what point in the verification process would you receive these inquries?
May 22nd, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Lionel — At this point, I’m going to assume you’re just joking in some manner. Persist in this vein and I will block you. Will be my first block in three years. If you wish to truly comment on the subject or make real conversation, then do so.
May 23rd, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Lionel- There was no need to change your last name. We all know it’s you.
Amanda- This looks interesting. I looked at the information on their Now Hiring! page and it looks like a lot of work for only $10/hr. Furthermore, they write:
“Online gaming experience a plus. Please let us know if you have ever played WoW, Evequest or Evony.”
Well. I think we know who their main audience will be! I’m going to ask around to see if this company has tried to post on any of the message boards that gamers use. They claim to have had incredible success so somebody I know in the gaming community should have heard of them by now. The pictures are extremely artistic but I guess they’re trying to avoid making it look like a second-rate Maxim layout, which itself resembles a second-rate online phone sex hotline.
May 23rd, 2012 at 7:49 pm
The perfect gift for the guy who doesn’t have time for a real girlfriend.
May 23rd, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Would be nice if it did attract and keep the attention of the time wasters. That way everyone would win. I don’t think that way, so is it really a viable business? Could well be that there could be males in the talent pool. Seems likely that they would be attracting the same type of people to work for them that they want as customers. Each to their own.
May 24th, 2012 at 4:05 am
Aspasia — Yes, since we know what pen-pals are like, $10/hr doesn’t cut it.
“Well. I think we know who their main audience will be! I’m going to ask around to see if this company has tried to post on any of the message boards that gamers use.”
Good idea! Report back, I’m curious.
“I guess they’re trying to avoid making it look like a second-rate Maxim layout, which itself resembles a second-rate online phone sex hotline.”
Ha!!!
David — Yet he’ll probably magically discover the time to go over his $250 allotment of attention.
Michael — It would be nice, wouldn’t it? Everyone would get what they desire, but the world never works like that.
Could be viable but the rates would have to be higher. These guys are going to be time-intensive because they have a lot of free time. (Thinking about the rates, maybe it IS run by guys — girls would probably charge more for the hassle.)
“Seems likely that they would be attracting the same type of people to work for them that they want as customers.”
Ha! Very good point. That’s rich.
May 26th, 2012 at 2:03 am
[...] Amanda Brooks has a knack for discovering oddities like “Fake Internet Girlfriend”, which describes itself as “a service that allows our clients to discreet [sic] employ real females to pretend to be their girlfriend online and communicate with them as if they were dating the person on various social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter or in some cases in gaming communities like World of Warcraft.” So if it’s more important to you to look like you have a girlfriend than to just use that money to actually have sex (which could potentially relax you enough that you might actually attract a real girlfriend), this is for you. Of course they insist that they aren’t an escort service, and I‘ll grant that…but honestly, isn’t this on the periphery of sex work? It’s not at all unusual for a client to pay a girl just to have someone to talk to or to be seen with in public, with no sex involved; is this so different? [...]