Escort & Call Girls
In exchange for cash or goods, escort girls provide one or more services, including sexual favors. But there are differences across the board in the sex industry. Unlike indoor sex workers who are hired to operate in brothels, massage parlors, or as escort women, street sex workers are often undocumented employees who meet clients on the street and supply them with sexual services in alleys or the clients’ automobiles. But there are also sex workers who provide services in discreet apartments like in discreet apartments in Haifa. Previous studies have shown that abuse of both children and adults, as well as both street and interior sex workers, is rather widespread. Indoor sex workers experience higher rates of abuse and trauma than the overall population, despite being subjected to less abuse and trauma than street prostitutes.
Wherever they work, escort girls typically face significant stigma-related challenges because of their perceived gendered norm breaches, such as having many partners and sex with strangers, exerting sexual initiative and control, triggering male fantasies, and getting paid for having sex. An extreme worry that others “find out” about their work because of the stigma associated with it often coexists with stigma, which can be internalized or externalized through the prejudice of others.
While there are some parallels between those who engage in sex on the streets and those who do it privately, there are typically very different problems and circumstances that go along with each profession. Compared to their outdoor counterparts, indoor sex workers are much less likely to report to using injectable drugs or having health difficulties. Due to laws and regulations governing the legal sex industry, they are also less likely than outside workers to express worries about their personal safety or face workplace violence. Additionally, indoor sex workers are more likely to consider their employment a profession rather than a temporary job, to stay in the field for a long time, and to describe a range of challenges with their work, such as issues with their personal lives.
