Thursday, April 26, 2012

Wish Lists, Accepted Tackiness

For several years I thought wish lists were incredibly tacky.  I still do actually.  One of the reasons I solicited my Los Angeles mentor, Mistress Simone, was because she had charities on her wish list.  It made her to be more of a person to me.
See, I may be all powerful, but I can't buy my own pants.

When I first started practicing in Los Angeles, I was trying to get a sense of what people were charging, but no one had such information on their sites.  I thought wish lists were so inane that they had to have some other purpose and my guess was it was a way to communicate the price of a session.  So I went around and found links to everything I liked that was $200.  It seems silly 11 years later, but if you think about it, it sounds a lot better than "200 roses" one still sees in ads today.  I soon learned that, no, they were just there to get more stuff.  Dommes were getting a decent hourly rate and that just seemed greedy