I may be mentally unbalanced, but I do thing there are high correlations to COVID for both.
People said Fuck-It in many ways after COVID, especially young women.
One way is that they won’t work below a certain price point. We saw it in restaurant service work, and perhaps the same thing in sex work.
People decided to spend more and save less. The government has everyone’s back in bad times like Covid. At least in the opinion of the masses.
Freelancing did well. Governments shut down organized things like escort agencies and even the German FKKs. Independent escorts kept on fucking.
Independent escorts drive up pricing. Their costs are higher, and they present themselves as more of a personal service than a commodity.
The agencies raised prices to match the independents, including Asian agencies.
Most BBFS occurs at Asian agencies and among Seeking Arrangement hook-ups.
Asian agencies view the ladies as interchangeable parts with changeable names and very little reputational risks attach to the agency. The higher prices allow for a greater acceptance of STDs for their ladies. More money to cure and there are more preventative medicines now.
The rise in independent escorting likely helped Seeking. It has a supposed selling point that it isn’t really sex work. Condom use for vaginal sex has been declining in civilian relationships for years, and since the Seeking folks argue they are civilians, not hookers and Johns, there is supposedly less need for condoms for full service.
The trend toward BBBJ was pre-COVID and is grounded in years of scientific statistics. To me, BBBJ is fine BBFS is not.