Theory Regular women: do they "have a price"?

[Redbeard7]

"According to Freud, most women were capable of becoming prostitutes and this was particularly true of 'the average uncultivated female.'" — S. L. Gilman

I’ve anonymously and hypothetically asked two (low income/unemployed) women so far in DMs and both gave some kind of number. But I believe the number they provide is inevitably much higher than their actual number for several reasons:

1. Personal pride/ego (“I’m not easy or cheap!”)
2. Privacy/status fears (“What if this private conversation were leaked?”)
3. Negotiation 101 (“I go high, you go low, we meet in the middle”, “Maybe he accepts the high price”)
4. Little to no knowledge of the market price of sex work, commonly leading to overestimation
5. Doubt of your seriousness ("Will he actually follow through or is he testing me/wasting my time?")
6. Physical safety/comfort concerns (“Is this guy clean/honest/non-violent?”)

What's interesting to me is that they offered prices at all when they’d be better off not giving one from the perspective of 1., 2. and 5., plus not giving a price could be a (3.) viable negotiation strategy in itself (“I’m not for sale, unless you make me an offer first and go insanely high”).

This suggests, at the very minimum, curiosity about what I’d be willing to offer, as “I’m not for sale” is felt to be much more likely to deter an offer than giving me some kind of price to work with. More likely it’s a not-so-veiled admission that there is a price.

“This is a month’s rent, for one night”, “It’s just between us”, “Why do it for free?”, “I don’t want an escort, I want you.” etc.

 

[SupremeFroggy]

Reminds me of a joke:

Son: Dad, what's the difference between theory and practice?
Dad: Go ask your mom and your sister whether they'd sleep with anybody for one million.
Son goes and comes back.
Son: They'd both accept.
Dad: Then in theory we're multi-millionaires, but in practice we live with two sluts.

 

[DCI Gene Hunt]

I think most (but definitely not all) working-class women have a price. Less so with middle-class women tho since they already have money.