We just have to look at SC dance prices to see the cause and effect relationship.
For at least fifteen years, air dances on boxes were $5, and nothing else was available. Most dancers were fairly busy, and the best were monopolized for extended periods, because their time was considered more valuable than $5 per song. There was also a lot of good looking local talent comfortable with 'look but not touch'.
Around 1991/92, a few ladies, then known as 'cheaters', began to offer extras, or offer the choice of the $5 or $10 dance. This initially caused a lot of friction with those who were adverse to physical contact during the dances, but given the choice, many if not most guys were willing to pay the extra $5 for the enhanced experience.
Shortly thereafter, the air dances pretty well disappeared, and those who chose not to adapt left the business, and there weren't a lot of locals willing to fill the void, hence the emergence of the Latina and EE dancers in the mid 90's, who were willing to do a job that most Canadian women weren't.
The problems for SCs began when lap dancing restrictions came in around the same time as a 100% increase in the price of dances. Most people have a limited budget for frivilous carnal expenditures, and pay raises are usually eaten up by increases to required living expenses. For a lot of guys, myself included, paying twice as much for a less satisfying time doesn't make a lot a sense, so SC business drops, the better quality dancers move on to, (we hope), bigger, and better things, and a lot of the slots are filled by women who aren't worth $10 a song, much less $20.
There are still dancers whose company is worth $20 a song, but not very many. There are quite a few who are worth $10 a song, but not $20, and their income suffers because supply exceeds demand. There are a whole lot who are worth less than $10 a song, and they usually spend most of their shift bothering patrons who are waiting for someone else.
With SPs, we have a variety of rates, dependent on appearance, reputation, services offered, popularity, chutzpah, and the amount of money they deem to be sufficient in order to perform certain acts with a stranger. That will always vary from woman to woman.
If someone can get $300 an hour for her companionship often enough to satisfy her financial needs, then more power to her. She owes nothing to the guy who has only $150 to spend. If everyone's price went to $300 an hour, some would still be busy, and others would need to get a second or an alternative job. Fewer trysts would occur, because the total amount of income for hobbying is fairly constant, and that amount drops when the price of the service exceeds its' value. People find other things to do or buy with their discetionary earnings.
