Beginners guide to adult work & sex work

Are you considering working in the adult work/ sex industry? Adult work covers a variety of jobs from working as a lap dancer, adult chat lines, escorting and porn. Below is a brief guide to the types of adult work. If you want to work in a specific area such as escorting or as a lap dancer, please read our more in - depth articles on each adult work profession.

Escort Work

Thinking of becoming an escort? Many women are now entering the adult work industry working for escort agencies and as independent female escorts. Firstly, beware that there are many scams on the internet. You may see ads in the paper “sign up as a social escort and earn thousands”. Or such words as “charge £100 an hour just to accompany a gentleman to dinner”. Many of these scams involve paying large registration or joining fees, some as much as £600. You will get promised that you will earn a minimum of £500 a night, but they are just cons! Most of these scammers never send you work and just disappear with your money and then set up their company under a different name, starting the scam all over again! Although some escorts do work as social escorts only, social escort work is rare and 99% of escort jobs involve sexual services.

If you wish to enter the escorting industry you can either sign up to a genuine escort agency or work as an independent. If you work for an escort agency, they will place you on their books and website, manage all your phone calls, advertising, bookings, and vet all your clients for you. Genuine escort agencies never charge a joining fee and take commission on bookings only. So, if you get no work, you pay no fees. Commission varies from 25% to 50%, the average being 30%. If you work as an independent escort, you will keep all your money you decide to charge however you will have to take care of all your phone calls, bookings, vetting clients, advertising etc. The average independent escort charges around £100 - £150 an hour, the average escort agency charges around £150 - £200 an hour.

You will have to be 18+ (U.K law).

Lap dancing/ Striptease dancing

Working as a stripper can involve working in lap dancing clubs, strip pubs and as stripper – o - gram at private parties. If you want to work as a stripper, you must be completely comfortable with being naked in front of strangers. If you work in a lap dancing club in the U.K., you will be required to perform topless dances and nude dances. Lap dancing clubs in the U.K do not pay you a wage. You have to pay them! You will either have to pay a “house” fee to the club or they will take commission on your dances. A house fee is basically a fee that every dancer pays to the club on the night they work. Some clubs will take a “house fee” as well as commission on your dances. You will be required to perform on stages and the pole every hour, this will give you the opportunity to impress your clients with your dancing skills.

Dancers then make their money by private dances. You will spend your time chatting to customers and persuading them to have a topless dance or private dance with you. On a busy night dancers can make hundreds of pounds. On a quiet night dancer can walk home out of pocket after giving the club a house fee and not performing any dances. All lap dancing clubs in the UK have strict no touching, no prostitution rules. Some clubs allow “contact” dancing. This is where you can sit and dance on a customer’s lap, although they are not allowed to touch you. Other clubs have strict one metre rules. This is where you must dance a metre away from the customer. It all depends on the licensing rules that the local council has put in place. If you plan to work outside the U.K, make sure you do your research as prostitution can legally take place and touching and sexual services are expected from the dancer in some countries’ strip clubs.

Stripper – O –Gram is where you are booked to perform a stripper show at a party or in a pub. Many strippers get bookings from entertainment agencies. The agency will deduct a booking fee or commission from you. A good agency will supply a bodyguard and driver with you, as groups of men can get rowdy. Touching and sex shows with toys may be expected in such bookings. So, make sure you are fully informed of what is expected in the stripper- o - gram performance.

If you want further information about working as a stripper, please read our beginners guide to working as a stripper.

Adult Modelling work

Many women are now getting into the glamour modelling industry. From lingerie modelling to top shelf shoots. Lingerie modelling is most popular, unlike fashion & catwalk you don’t have to be 5’8 to get work. Many models are required to work for catalogues and online lingerie stores. You will usually be required to model the more erotic styles of lingerie, exposing your breasts and nipples like cup less teddies and crotch – less knickers etc. There is also a growing demand for plus size lingerie models U.K sizes 18 – 26.

You can expect to command around £15 - £25 an hour for lingerie shoots. Depending on what you are comfortable with, topless and erotic nude is also quite popular. Posing for topless photos is usually around £25 an hour, erotic, and artistic nude shoots, you can command around £50 an hour. Then there are the top shelf photos. These photos will end up being published in top shelf magazines. Money will vary depending on which magazine you are featured in, but they usually pay you a set fee depending on if it is topless, open legs etc.

Porn Movies & Porn Star Escorts

Porn star escorts

Many porn stars work as escorts as well as they cannot rely on porn work full time. Many escorts that star in porn are known as “Porn Star Escorts”. As they are an established Porn Star, they can charge much higher fees than the average escort. If you do decide to go into porn remember that any reputable studio will need to be registered and abide by U.K law & regulations. You will normally be required to produce proof of age and ID and a full clean STD test certificate. You will also be required to sign model release forms to the porn production company, signing away any rights to your movies. Pay varies depending on what type of film you take part in e.g., boy/girl, girl/ girl, hard-core, fetish etc, but you can expect to be paid anywhere between £100 - £500 per film.

Before going into porn, you need to remember that once a porn film is out there, it’s out there forever. Majority of porn films will require you to show your face and have close shots of your face. There are some themed films such as BDSM and boudoir etc, that you can wear masks to hide your identity.

A major factor to think about is once you have made the movie and signed the release papers you cannot simply change your mind and ask the film company for it not to be distributed. If you are going into a professional career such as a being a teacher, doctor, police force etc. then porn is not for you! Your porn past can jeopardise your job and career.

Another option maybe producing amateur homemade porn clips & movies. You can upload homemade movie clips and earn revenue from your movies. You will always be in control of your movies and can use face masks etc. if you desire to hide your identity. You will also have full rights to your movie. You can upload them; clients will pay to see your movies and once you have earned minimum payment you can request to be paid out for your movie clips.

There are various adult content sites to sign up to do this. Xpunting has its own adult fans section where you can upload pornographic explicit material into your own private gallery and start charging clients to access your content today!

Adult webcam models

Adult webcam is becoming increasingly popular. It is another job that is labelled as “adult work” or “sex work”. Many people do webcam work part time or full time. You can either work from home or you have the option of working for a web cam studio.

If you are working from home, you will need a PC or Mac that is relatively new (under 3 years old is recommended). You will defiantly need high speed internet connection and of course good quality web cam. A built-in web cam is fine, but it is best to have a HD web cam that can stream clear videos.

Web camming will require you stripping off naked for your customers and performing sex shows with toys etc. You will invite your customers into one-to-one chat or group chats where customers will pay per minute and are also able to tip you. For example, say a customer is in private chat at £2.99 a minute you will get £2.99 a minute. If you are in group chat and you get three customers in private chat at the same time you will earn £8.97 a minute. And if you get the customers staying in chat for five minutes you will earn £44.85 for five minutes minus commission.

Commission varies per Webcam Company but typically webcam companies take between 30% - 50%. You will usually get paid once minimum pay-out is reached e.g. £50.

Tips for webcam models

How to keep safe when webcamming.

- Never use your real name, city, or any identifying information with a customer.
- Never give them out any personal social media info like your real name on Facebook, twitter account etc.
- You should have a separate persona complete with history and likes/dislikes if the viewer wants to get to know you. Remember being on web cam is about being an actress.
- Never agree to meet a viewer or give out your home phone or mobile number.
- Never use email addresses that you have used in your personal life.

Xpunting is currently in the process of developing a webcam model feature. If you are signed up as an escort, this feature will be ready to use in the future.

Adult Phone Chat

Another type of adult work you may be interested in is being an adult phone chat operator.

This is classed as adult work and you must be over 18 to apply. This is a very safe way to earn money in the adult work industry. You simply work for a chat line company from the comfort of your own home. You do not have to appear in any webcam or movie clips, you are completely anonymous to your caller.

As an adult chat operator, you will be required to fit the following criteria:
- Over 18 years of age
- Your aim is to keep the caller entertained for as long as possible. The longer you keep the caller on the phone, the more you get paid.
- Must be able to take phone calls and not be disturbed.

Being an adult chat provider requires you to receive calls which can be of a sexually explicit nature. You must be open minded and willing to converse with callers on a variety of sexual subjects such as their fantasies, fetish etc. Think of yourself as an actress. You will need to be outgoing, have a friendly tone manner, be a great actress and have a highly active imagination. You should be confident to talk about fantasies with your callers of a sexually explicit nature. Many people find being a sex chat operative is an easy and safe way to enter the adult work industry.

If you decided to try escorting, phone chat, webcamming or other adultwork you are in the right place!

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