I agree overall with your point but there are a few things I'd like to dispute. I understand from other threads you have posted in that you have experiance with escorts and the like so I'm not trying to talk down to you, but from my experiance there are a few varying factors.

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An escort, average in terms of appeal and physical attributes, if she puts forth modest effort and does not do anything desperate or stupid, can earn 1500 a day seeing 2 or 3 clients MAXIMUM, at 1-2 hours per client.

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Even top notch, non-porn star escorts do not make $1,500 a day. It can and does happen, but it's not like a common occurance. To charge $500+ an hour you generally have to be exceptionally attractive, well established, live in a big city, and cater to an uppercrust clientel. Most escorts do not posesses all of these advantages.

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Some porn chicks, I have learned first hand or here online, DO NOT regard fucking porn dudes like Dirty Harry, or TT Borg, or Erik Evilhard, or Steve Holmes for 900 bucks on film (minus Agent fees) as the same as, say, visiting a 45 year old affluent, clean (disease wise and hygiene wise) lawyer in a hotel for 500 bucks an hour, 2 hour visit, plus tips.

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Very few clients who escorts cater to are either affluent, clean, willing to meet in high-class hotels, etc. You are talking about a client base that is dealt with by a very small percentage of call girls. I suppose you could make the argument that most porn chicks are attractive and resourceful enough to be within that margin, but I'd have to disagree.

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...plus stripping LASTs a long long time as a career or source of income...

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This one I have to call you out on. While stripping does seem to have a smaller turnover rate than escorting or porn, a significant amount of strippers I have worked with over the years get locked into this spiral of making more money then they have ever had before and spending it all on designer purses, cars, drugs, etc. without saving any of it or planning for the future in any way, shape, or form (much like porn chicks). So they continue to strip for years and years until their looks and bodies are worn out and then they either continue stripping and sink into doing "extras" (hooking while you're on the job) or something else equally desperate, and end up old and shot out with nothing to show for it. And those are the few that don't burn out along the way.
Also, I don't think stripping is any more or less emotionally taxing than pornography, but that also depends on the person and their tolerance for certain things. When you're a stripper you have to work harder for your money and deal with multitudes of cheapass sleazebags, whores, and other bullshit that probably is right up there with the porn industry. Physically it certainly beats being triple-penetrated and donkey punched for hours on end, but emotionally and mentally I'm thinking it's probably one or two rungs below porn. It's not all flowers and sunshine and from my experiance it seems to be just as damaging and dead-end as any other area of sex work.