The Las Vegas Courtesan

So one of the largest conventions of the season is in town, though you’d never know it: the National Association Of Broadcasters convention. It has always been a weird one since people seem to go to bed super early. I thought I had written about it before, but apparently I hadn’t said much about it but it tends to mark the end of the spring convention festivity. This spring has been more of a roller coaster than before and February was awesome (and even the casinos were up then for the first time in a few years), but the conventions have been noticeably absent and even the bachelor parties have gone down in number. What’s the reason for all of this? Some blame the economy, some blame Obama’s comments about Las Vegas several times in the media, and some blame Vegas for not offering enough to the tourists on a budget since not everyone can buy a $400 bottle of Skyy vodka and a Gucci purse.

Usually during the spring it’s nothing but bachelor parties on the weekends and conventioneers Sunday-Thursday. I’m not a huge fan of the bachelor parties since the return on your time is quite low (and a lot of parties just don’t work out) but I like to at least have the option of going to a call to try to work something out. Starting this Sunday, the Rehab pool party reopens at Hard Rock and the level of calls tend to go up on Sunday nights when the pool season starts. Sunday turns from a relaxed night to see clients to wilder than Friday night. It’s quite amusing.

Last year I was waiting for a client to answer his phone so I could go upstairs on a Sunday Rehab party night. I was watching all of the people sunkissed and having fun in the hallways as the party was winding down, but within 5 minutes of sitting down to wait I had a drink spilled on me by one drunk guy, another guy tried yanking my arm like I was his property, and one guy yelled at me like a kid because I wouldn’t let him use my cell phone. I couldn’t help but laugh at the circus show.

Oh by the way, thanks for all of your votes on the fetish poll! I’ll see about a new schoolgirl uniform and maybe work down my list 🙂

Yea, I need to vent for a second. It’s situations like what I heard last night and what happened to me at a bachelor party the night before that makes me want to smack some sense into these younger girls. I am in my mid twenties and quite a few of the newer girls at services I work at are 18-20 or maybe just turned 21. No matter what their age, they have been acting like they are 16. Things around Vegas have gotten a little bit tougher when making money because of the girls that come from out of town or don’t know how to make money end up screwing so many people over. Why should they care? They are only in town for the week or just want to test the waters at being a prostitute. They don’t realize the impact it has on tourists who come back next year for their convention or on down the road for a future vacation. What these girls don’t realize is how to get whatever money they can, do the act and move on. Just because you had to bargain down to some lower amount of money to make the deal doesn’t make you less of a person for doing so. After all, you are STILL making more money than lawyers and doctors do per hour so smile! You are still a whore, and no level of money changes that.

So the night before last I went on a service call with one of these younger girls (let’s call her Joann) who really wishes she wasn’t in the sex industry. Most of these girls used to or still work in strip clubs and just put on some “I’m better than you” attitude but somehow ended up in the sex industry from their pimp who wanted them to make more money. That is this girl’s story, also. So Joann and I go to the call at the Las Vegas Hilton at 4:30 in the morning and it turns out to be an 8-person bachelor party. No biggie though bachelor parties are one of my least favorite. They give us the company fee pretty easily and we start talking about our tips (we talk and collect 95% of our tips up front for parties so they know what kind of party they are getting and we aren’t constantly begging for money the whole time). They say we are too high and want to negotiate. The main guy who is dealing with the money goes to the other guys and collects as much as he can per person to pitch in. He comes back to us with about 1/3 of what we originally asked for which is STILL a good bit of money. After her sulking and looking pissed about the amount he wants to tip, she agrees to do the show for the bachelor. We go out to the room and I start dancing for the bachelor while she just STANDS there next to me, watching. The whole time looking like her best friend just died and won’t smile to even seem halfway interested. I ask for tips to play some of the bachelor games and she says nothing to help to get more cash to boost up what we got paid originally. After one game Joann sat down and looked at her phone and claimed she had another call to go to. GOOD please go and leave me here so I can try to work these guys and make some more money. After her horrible attitude and leaving the room, the customers didn’t want to spend any more money for sexual acts because they were of course… disappointed! I tried being chipper and got a couple extra 20’s for being polite and left the room a little ticked. I made sure the girls at the company knew about her attitude and hopefully won’t be sent anywhere with her again.

Last night the story I heard was another young girl (who has previously screwed up calls we have gone on together) who was at the Bellagio and took $2,500 from a customer, claimed she didn’t feel good, and somehow left the room without even taking her clothes off. I was dumbfounded. I also know that she doesn’t do “full service” a.k.a. have sex with customers. No girl has to do anything they don’t want to do, but I don’t understand why she wants to be in this industry and NOT have sex? What I concluded was that she promised this guy that she would have sex but then bailed. I know the company isn’t too happy with her at all right now… and of course that guy will never come back to Vegas and have a girl over again.

Anyway I am done venting. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is in town and is the largest convention that comes here every year. Last year was kind of disappointing but hopefully this year will be different!

Business out here in December is as slow as cold molasses. After the rodeo leaves (which ended yesterday but we all know they aren’t big spenders) there really isn’t a darn thing that comes through Vegas until the new year. Thankfully though at the New Year CES comes around. Surprisingly even though Las Vegas is known for the biggest spot to hold conventions, only certain conventions you actually see a return cash wise on the amount of people that are in town. For example, the NAB conference (National Association of Broadcasters) is one convention that blows my mind every year. In mid-April it comes into town with 140,000 people who work for NBC, Toshiba, or Sony yet if I don’t go out to the casinos to find a customer at the bar I will be broke. My phone doesn’t ring from the services and when it does it ends up being a waste of time. On the other end, a show like the wireless phone convention in May who has 15,000 attendants (these are people who sell cell phones for a living.. not the big income kind of guy) I will make quite a bit of money on. There is just no easy formula for this town. I have yet to figure it out.

Last night ended up being okay. I was boasting about my regular yesterday who ended up standing me up by the end of the night. I think I spoke too soon about him being a good regular. He says he swears he will call me next time but we will have to see about that. Luckily after a few small tips and some base calls (calls where only the fee was collected) a guy called me off of my Eros ad and immediately said what he wanted to tip. That always kind of makes me nervous because I definitely don’t agree to any entertainment on the phone for my safety. I said I like to meet you first and give you a strip tease… he said sure and I headed over there. He passed my little test to feel safer and everything worked out so I didn’t have to stay for very long. He got a discount anyway. I figured if I hassled him for more money then he might think I am a hustling him and would ask me to leave. Believe it or not it happens..