20 August 2008

An email interview with Tess Ryan - Independent Canberra Escort and Companion

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Last week we had a look at the world of Tess Ryan [NSFW], a go-it-alone sex-worker in Canberra. Many of us were surprised to learn that the ACT has laws against threesomes at home with sex workers.

Even more of you had more questions and wanted me to do an interview with her. Some of you suggested I should pay for her time and let them conduct an “interview”, possibly for review purposes.

As a compromise I have suggested to her that we do it as an email interview between you lot and her.

So the way these work is that you post your questions below, I choose the best ten and email them to her, she emails the answers back and we run them in a later story.

Crude or rude questions will neither be chosen nor answered.

Off you go them.

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Do you fake orgasms for your clients?

Mælinar – *spoiler alert* I’ve seen S04E13 said :

I pity the vista users, hard to work out how to use it…. Well since the development methodology employed by Microsoft was to rip the good bits out of Suse 10.2 and call it their own, I find it remarkable that you are having difficulty working out how to use it.

don’t forget mac osx – unix plays a relevant role, look at bitlocker….

It’s the absinthe …. *chortle*

Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E139:35 am 20 Aug 08

I suppose it brings up a relevant point though Thumper, grass or no grass ?

Any hidden fairies ?

Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E138:14 am 20 Aug 08

When you play the Sims, do you opt for a conventional nuclear family (1m 1f, children) or a hybrid creation ?

Since pretty much everybody you meet on a professional basis is on their version of a pretty good day, what do you do / what would you interpret as a good day for yourself ?

grunge_hippy10:22 pm 19 Aug 08

have you ever fallen for one of your clients or is it strictly business?
how do you tell potential boyfriends what you do for a living?
do your friends know what you do for a living?
what do you say when people ask “what do you do?”

LOL !

Yes, for goodness’ sake show a bit of initiative S4anta ….

2 paddles pops sticks and some tape….

Tontine *hehe*

So how exactly do you get a homosexual bloke to sleep with a woman?

Some of you people might want to actually read Tess’ website before tappy tapping on your little keyboards, you may find your question already rather eloquently answered.

For some others you may want to read other people’s questions and find yours already asked.

Sorry Johnboy had to be said.

And DJ hahahahahhahhahahaha classic, wrong but classic.

Ever used the whole chicken or is it just the feathers?

BerraBoy68 said :

1. Do you say you charge by the hour or just until the client orgasms?

2. In your experience is it true that a significant number of prostitutes in the ACT are female Uni students trying to pay their fee’s?

3. Do you have sex with the mentally unstable? (It’s a fair question – I knew a guy who was a Koomarri placement in the PS that took every payday Thursday off work to go to a brothel).

4. Ever had to check for ID?

I’m also tempted to ask “would you ever do it with a client in Queanbeyan or do you have standards?” but some kids from Qbn High might read it and get annoyed..

Or meet a relative…. oh, that was poor form and bad taste… but if each sibling has a different surname….

Actually I’m the one who chooses the ten questions.

1. Do you say you charge by the hour or just until the client orgasms?

2. In your experience is it true that a significant number of prostitutes in the ACT are female Uni students trying to pay their fee’s?

3. Do you have sex with the mentally unstable? (It’s a fair question – I knew a guy who was a Koomarri placement in the PS that took every payday Thursday off work to go to a brothel).

4. Ever had to check for ID?

I’m also tempted to ask “would you ever do it with a client in Queanbeyan or do you have standards?” but some kids from Qbn High might read it and get annoyed..

Do you regret being party to this?

Did you think there would be so many questions?

Are you surprised at what the proletariat are asking?

How will you select ten questions to answer? Or nine, coz this could be one.

What are your views on climate change and the exchange rate mechanism?

Do you believe in UFO’s?

Have you had sex with Elvis? If so, how much did you charge him?

and how much does it cost?

What in your opinion is the weirdest fetish you’ve been asked to participate in?

What do most customers do wrong?

Whats the age range of your clients? Who would you describe as a ‘typical’ client?

What is the Number 1 “Never do it to an escort” rule?
What other rules do you expect your clients to follow?

Apart from the money, what do you get out of it?

Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E132:15 pm 19 Aug 08

Have you ever met Shane Warne ?

Is this your only job or do you do it as a sideline?

Waugh? great interest here. well I would like to know how many hours do you work in a week? Do you go on holidays? How do you spend your free time? How often do you go to gym?

Where’s daddy?

How old are your youngest and oldest clients?

Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E1312:03 pm 19 Aug 08

I pity the vista users, hard to work out how to use it…. Well since the development methodology employed by Microsoft was to rip the good bits out of Suse 10.2 and call it their own, I find it remarkable that you are having difficulty working out how to use it.

How long have you been in-industry?
What would you be doing if you weren’t in-industry?
How many nights a week do you work?
Describe an average workingday.
Describe a good day.
Funniest story?
Worst moment in the job?
Eventually wrinkles wil appear, while some things will sag and others stretch. What kind of post-industrial plan do you have?

Do you have a stable relationship outside of work?
Does he\she have any issues with your line of work?
Has this resulted in there being anything that you do not (or no longer) do for clients, as a result? If so, can you tell us?

When you meet with other men & women ‘in the trade’, what do you all talk about?

Is there an inter-referral system for clients, providers, and services where you are unable to ‘help’ someone, but know of someone who does\can?

What issues are facing your trade that you think any candidates in the upcoming election might be able to fix, or at least help with, and how?

Loquaciousness said :

Aurelius said :

Mathman said :

What’s the story behind the Web standards compliance stuff?
Does she run Linux?

Mathman,
Yet another attempt to answer the time-honoured question of whether Linux users get laid.

I’ve been on a year long journey of discovery to answer this very question. The results would surprise you.

L

or not.

linux users, myself included, do fine.

I pity the vista users, hard to work out how to use it….

Loquaciousness11:20 am 19 Aug 08

Aurelius said :

Mathman said :

What’s the story behind the Web standards compliance stuff?
Does she run Linux?

Mathman,
Yet another attempt to answer the time-honoured question of whether Linux users get laid.

I’ve been on a year long journey of discovery to answer this very question. The results would surprise you.

L

Soliciting a quality discrete lady-inclined gigolo may well be harder than you think, peterh.
(I don’t have even the slightest experience to draw on to back that up, though)

Question:

I had been led to believe that escorts were being paid for the time spent with a client, and that she was both under no obligation to ‘service’ a client, and could leave without sex so long as the time was spent.
Prostitutes were paid for performing agreed sexual services for her John\Johns.
If Tess is openly charging for sex, can she clarify the distinction between escorts, prostitutes, whores, and sluts (from a professional’s viewpoint)?

Are you a sole trader, small business, or incorporated body?
Do you calculate your own tax return for declared taxable income, or do you have an accountant do it for you?

Why did you decide to go it alone?

Why do most of your clients see a sex worker?
How many of your clients are repeat business?

Mathman said :

What’s the story behind the Web standards compliance stuff?
Does she run Linux?

Mathman,
Yet another attempt to answer the time-honoured question of whether Linux users get laid.

Have you ever caught anything?

scootergal said :

peterh said :

what was the decision that prompted you to “go it alone”?

what are the risks with being a lone sex worker as opposed to working for an agency or brothel?

what are the risks when associated with a brothel?

how do you register a business as a sex worker?

what forms of service do you provide, particularly, are there specific acts that you will not provide?

why is the sex industry tailored to males, and there does not seem to be many male sex workers who cater for female only services?

does the eros foundation still exist?

if not, what is the equivalent association for sex workers?

There are services out there that cater to females also, as well as to men who want men I (unfortunately) discovered.

really?

why are they so hard to find, then?

I would think that the sex industry would have equal representation for both males and females.

peterh said :

what was the decision that prompted you to “go it alone”?

what are the risks with being a lone sex worker as opposed to working for an agency or brothel?

what are the risks when associated with a brothel?

how do you register a business as a sex worker?

what forms of service do you provide, particularly, are there specific acts that you will not provide?

why is the sex industry tailored to males, and there does not seem to be many male sex workers who cater for female only services?

does the eros foundation still exist?

if not, what is the equivalent association for sex workers?

There are services out there that cater to females also, as well as to men who want men I (unfortunately) discovered.

sepi said :

Do you find that it is possible to maintain a loving intimate relationship outside of your work?

I thought threads on this subject were offensive to you sepi?

What does your family think of your line of work? have you told them?
Do you have a boyfriend? and what does he think of your work?

What made you decide to become an escort and how did you get into the business?
Do you remember your first client and was it difficult to go through with?

What are your views on the objectification of women, what impact do you think your industry has on this issue?

If you could get paid the same amount of money doing something that did not involve selling your body, would you?

If you had a daughter, would you be happy for her to be an escort?

How do you think women in dire straits (drug addiction, homeliessness etc) who turn to prostitution out of necessity deal with their past later in life? How would you suggest their families deal with it?

what was the decision that prompted you to “go it alone”?

what are the risks with being a lone sex worker as opposed to working for an agency or brothel?

what are the risks when associated with a brothel?

how do you register a business as a sex worker?

what forms of service do you provide, particularly, are there specific acts that you will not provide?

why is the sex industry tailored to males, and there does not seem to be many male sex workers who cater for female only services?

does the eros foundation still exist?

if not, what is the equivalent association for sex workers?

Do you find that you now have a greater understanding and respect for men and their issues or the opposite?

Do you think that porn instead of degrading women, who are the “stars” of the show instead degrades men and turns them more into faceless thrusting beasts and creates unreasonable expectations of sex…. ie anal, 3 somes etc?

If given your time over again would you pursue the same career?

Given that you have more experience with more people than 99% of the population what do you find that most people do “wrong” during sex?

By the way pure class and good luck….

Mary Whitehouse8:13 am 19 Aug 08

Forget Herzog. Pretty Woman, Klute or Belle de Jour?

Eyeball In A Quart Jar Of Snot1:22 am 19 Aug 08

What is your favourite Werner Herzog film?

Ever been to Switzerland?

The Beatles or The Kinks?*

Correct answer: The Beatles

Piratemonkey12:08 am 19 Aug 08

Has business noticeably picked up since the recent riotact publicity?
Have any clients mentioned they heard about you on the riotact?

and yeah how was the web developer paid?

Holden Caulfield11:55 pm 18 Aug 08

Do you fukc on first dates?

(Sorry, I’ll run along now…)

Jonathon Reynolds11:38 pm 18 Aug 08

Do you believe that the current Prostitution Act and associated regulations are appropriate for the Industry?:
http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/1992-64/default.asp

If you could make any changes to the current legislation, what would those changes be?

Well guess no reality skin

Can a client rim her ?

Is this something you plan on doing long term or do you have other plans for the future ?

Mathman said :

What’s the story behind the Web standards compliance stuff?
Does she run Linux?

+1

I’m also quite keen to know her annual income – and whether it is ‘financially rewarding’.

Monster of the Deep10:22 pm 18 Aug 08

I really want to ask a question about Ms Ryan’s thoughts and feelings, but I’m afraid to ask something cliché! So I guess I’ll just go with a simple one.

What would constitute a bad day of work? Would a bad day see you upset or distressed at home in your free time, or do you try and clearly delineate things?

Thanks for giving people an opportunity to get to know more about the usually anonymous people in this area!

To what extent are your family aware of your occupation ?
Their views?

What is your typical stereotype client?
Do you pay and charge GST, do people ever ask for a receipt?
Do you have a normal relationship/partner outside of work?
Do you love/like/meh/hate doing your job?
What did you want to do when you grew up?
How did you get into the industry?
What do you do for fun when your not working?
How do you pay your web developer? 😉

Kind of related to scootergal’s question: what do you do to ensure your physical protection, i.e. screening out any nutters or protecting yourself if some client suddenly turns violent or berko?

Is Tess Ryan your real name (ok, that question is more for me than anyone else!!)

How do you deal with stalkers? (ok, so that question is for me also!)

:O)

Mathman. FFS! You have an opportunity to ask a question of Ms Ryan and you come up with that.

Ms Ryan:
– Annual income?
– Rewards scheme?
– Funniest experience?
– Worst one ever?

Do you find that it is possible to maintain a loving intimate relationship outside of your work?

Is it true what Robbie Swan says about an Anglican priests conference in Canberra being the busiest time ever for Canberra’s sex workers?

Are Labor or Liberal party members more likely to request your services?

What’s the most frightening experience with a client, and how dangerous is it working in the industry?

Mælinar - *spoiler alert* I've seen S04E139:18 pm 18 Aug 08

What do you think the current Government could do to improve your current working conditions ?

Do you approve or disapprove of the Stanhope Governments policy stances on water, foreign affairs, the environment, building unecessary statues, entering into legal disputes over findings from bushfires when they had already claimed responsibility etc ?

What percentage of times do you really have an orgasm and what sets you off?

What’s the story behind the Web standards compliance stuff?
Does she run Linux?

Why she chose this line of work?

Are there any persons of specific backgrounds who you refuse to deal with in your line of work? and why not? Thanks.

“however, I do not provide kissing, anal sex or costumes”

Does $$ increase the chance any of those happening! just curious. Locked in cement etc

“however, I do not provide kissing, anal sex or costumes”

Does $$ increase change any of those happening! just curious. Locked in cement etc

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