Erica – Yes and yes to the unexpected injuries you get on set. The sorest part of me is usually my neck (from craning for face shots) and shoulders (from the creative waving of arms). *g*

Spike – Would it be better if the middle-aged men were good-looking and fit? LOL Only joking. One hears about exploitative bastards from time to time, but there’s enough information around, and enough reputable producers around, that there is absolutely no need to work for them.

This whole discussion has conjured up two images in my mind. One, which I like, is of the models getting spanked and knowing they’re being paid for what they love doing anyway – and making their own choice whether they want this to be a sideline or a full time commitment.

The other image is of awful, middle-aged men who are also doing what they like and are making bucket loads of money by exploiting the ones they pay by the hour! I’m sure it’s not really like that (and if it is……. please don’t tell me.)

Pandora also makes a great comment, that’s show biz! It probably always has been like that, and maybe always will be.

Oh look – a cartel! I’d love to see the European Commissioner for competition sort that one out.

Alternatively, send all the girls round to me and I shall sort out the matter privately ;)

I have never understood this “secrecy” behind what people get paid in this industry. No one can give an exact figure because of course rates vary – quite massively at the moment – depending on who you work for and often on the severity too. At NSI we pay girls £250-£300 per shoot (plus travel and food etc) and are increasing that quite considerably from January 2007. This is about average though some companies do pay more (but often expect more!) I’m not giving away any trade secrets here as most companies advertise the rates they pay on their site anyway.

Most girls working full-time make the bulk of their income through private appointments. There was a time when the rates where the same in the UK regardless of which girl you booked. These rates were agreed amongst the girls themselves and it was fair for everyone. Basically, guys paid their money and took their choice. However, this has changed in recent years with the number of pro spanking girls increasing by easily more than 5 times the number there were just 5 years ago in the UK, and it’s difficult to reach an agreement when the girls rarely know each other these days (though the core girls in the scene do stick to roughly the same rates so as not to undercut each other and try to keep it as fair as possible)

With the influx of new girls in general these rates can now vary hugely too depending on where you work, even varies regionally within the UK, but anything between £100 – £200 per hour session (though there are a handful of girls who charge less I believe). Though a session is never an hour. Normally by the time you’ve spent chatting to the client, sharing a cuppa and discussing what he wants from the sessions and your limits, do the session then a cool down chat and cuppa you’re looking at nearer 3 hours often for a “one hour” session. Again no trade secrets, most girls rates are available for people to see on their adverts and personal websites.

Parties in the UK generally pay £150 – £200 per party though this takes the whole day or evening generally with anywhere between 6 and 30 guys spanking, strapping and caning you, so less experienced girls do need to allow a few days off after a party to recover but it’s a good way to network and where most girls meet 121 clients.

Still a party or a shoot plus a couple of 121s each week is usually enough to tide anyone over! It’s great fun, you generally get to choose your own hours so one can’t complain!

That being said, it can’t ever be relied upon, so yes the girls who do it are brave in that aspect. The reality which not many people think about is that everyone, no matter how good, how young or how pretty, has a “shelf life” in this business so it’s by no means a life-long career for most.

The girls who do it though enjoy it. Adele makes a good point that one is not always in a spanking mood. That is very true. The strange reality of this however – and I say this from my own experience only, can’t comment for others – is that even when I have an appointment arranged and I am not in the mood, by the time I have had a cuppa with the client and I go off and get changed, when the session starts I am always in the mood! Isn’t that odd?!

In general though my theory to doing spanking full-time has always been “Give it up before it gives you up” but also that if you stop enjoying it, stop doing it. End of. :-) The girls who do this purely for the money and have no personal kink for spanking just completely bewilder and baffle me.

Julie

That’s true of all modelling and acting, Erica, not just spanking! If you have an itch for the camera, this is just something you learn to live with – and modelling is less physically demanding than many other jobs I could name!