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I have visited ladies that partake in the business since being out of it. I respect them and will continue to support them.  Dating sucks and women of this business often provide better conversations than a lot of my dates.  Then we can both leave and go about our daily activities.  Most of the ladies serve as counselors talking to many men. I guess it is like being a hair stylist or barber. The clients normally sit and talk about issues and the ladies provide a valuable listening outlet for a lot of fellas.

There is a wide spectrum of ladies that work in the bussiness. I went through about 40 or more during my time. Each one has an interesting story.

Now back to the ever so boring world outside of the adult entertainment industry!

posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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The gals job is not for the faint of heart. If a girl never worked in a dance place or as an escort I would not hire her. To much bullshit to be exposed to. I tried to give them a reason not to work there instead of just putting a body on the couch.

Some people might be thankfull for my actions. Years ago Mayor Vera Katz wanted to pass and ordinance for underage and asking for id's going to hotels for outcall services. The prior evening they had a camera crew in front of another lingerie shop and a lady did an article in the Oregonian. The following day they had a city hall meeting at 2 pm. Nobody was notified of this ordinance. I called the Oregonian and she wrote a biased article on lingerie shops and she never stepped inside of one! Unbelievable. I ended up going downtown and was the only one from the adult industry to be present at this meeting. The seargant lied saying that he gave notice to 70 people/places. Screw that. How come I am one of a dozen physical locations and none of us heard about it. So, I asked for a stay and got two weeks.  Money spent on a lawyer and the ordinance failed. Your welcome to the every future Portland outcall client to hotel or motel without showing id. The funny part is my dad saw me on tv and laughed his ass off. 

Only one shop was ever shut down during my ownership. I provided a nice clean and comfortable place to come. Safe enviroment and they could have as much flexibility in operating there business.  I just couldn't see myself making enough to justify my risk of being thrown in jail for somebody's elses action. I tried to find a girlfriend that could understand the business but that never made it nowwhere. I didn't sit there and ask the girls for benefits. But, I am not saying I didnt' have my fun times. 

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The tricky part as an owner.

I can't go in the private rooms and control what is going on. So, in my place there were peep holes. Other establishments have/had cameras.  Well I don't really want a job to look through a peep whole to see if a gal is jerking, sucking, or fucking someone.  I also don't want to be thrown in jail for somebody's actions because they had no money on the 5th of the month and rent was due so they therefore bent the rules and did that stuff.  There is the 1st Amendment rights that Oregon truly upholds.  So, does the owner put cameras in the room? If something came of it would the client sue me by abusing his 1st amendment rights? or invasion of privacy? If a girl new a camera was in a room, what do you think the chance were that she would place her body in front of it to hide what would or could be happening? 

I never made a girl try out for the job. Initially i had a subcontract agreement made up, but that has no merit when an undercover guy busts a gal and she is going to say that the owner forced her to do stuff. The city would want to close it down. Who are they going to believe. So, the risk exposure was an issue.  What should the owner charge.  I made about $40k a year by coming in and bullshitting with the gals. Bringing them lunch, dinner, and running bullshit errrands to assit them.  I would go there to open the shop and close the shop and collect money. The problem is that the risk didn't make up for the reward. With what can and does go on, the gal would charge $150 on a credit card and I would get $30 - $40 of that. I would average 8 paying customers a day. A majority of the customers were married.   

To me it was a full time baby sitter job. The toughest part is scheduling girls, normally only two together, that could get along and not get jealous of looks or actions that they would do illegal crap for a rate that the other gal wouldn't. Catfighting 101. My comment is that the walls would talk. I also would have to come in and sit and watch tv or whatever if only one gal showed up. I needed or wanted to make money, but I also wanted to ensure the safety of the one working. So, I shut one door and played the music and ran into the office when a customer entered the area. He would only get one choice of the ladies and she could work

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I was a previous adult lingerie modeling shop owner for 3 1/2 years. I wish I knew that this event was being held.  I would of liked to tell a separate side of the story.

I bought the business from an Oregonian Ad. I was raised in Portland and came back up from central Oregon and wanted to find a business that was profitable and could operated with little or no effort.  I bought an existing lingerie modeling shop for $20k.

I vistied the shop twice and new nothing about the industry except that I new it would cash flow.  I had paid for services in the military abroad and then in Reno on several occassions.  I met the owner and saw that money was somewhat being recorded and went for it. He never had the company registered as an ongoing Portland business entity. I formed a sub Chapter "S" Coroporation and filed with the city. I recorded every dollar and cent that went in and out of the business. I didn't want to be the Al Capone of Portland. 

A lingerie shop is where a customer can come into a shop, select a girl, and go to one of several rooms, approx. 8 x 10 on most cases, and sit on a couch (towel covered) and get naked and masterbate infront of the gal and bust a nut.  Most rooms are sparsley decorated and may even have a theme to it. My space was quite large and had three theme rooms and a dungeon space.

The client pays a house fee and then the customer is required to at least match the house fee for the gal.  My agreement with the ladies was to gaurantee the client a nude dance from across the room.  Here lies the problem. When I first had the place there were no cameras anywhere. My first concern is making sure that my money would be dropped. I installed a camera for the entrance area.  Also, the girls would feel more relaxed in case a customer misbehaved she could point to it.

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