Moxie - I totally get what you're saying in a lot of your points on this.
Some girls can handle the emotions involved in this sort of thing. Me, I wouldn't have been able to, but that was just me.

I wanted to have really good sex with someone who didn't gross me out and since it was my career at the time, make a decent paycheck. If I had escorted, I don't think I would have done more than 1 a day, so how many hours I spent on set didn't make a difference to me cause either way I would have been doing 1 job a day and being i movies was usually kind of fun. Having to make conversation with a guy who bores me to death isn't worth all the money in the world.
I did meet some nice guys that 'came with good references' from girls I knew who escorted. Just wasn't my thing.

Maybe if I had been more cutthroat I would have had a bigger name by the time I had to quit. oh well...