It's easier to make money in the paid/online companionship world when you fit into a marketable category. Extremes are easier to sell and are more visually striking and therefore memorable to the viewer.
I'd say these easy-to-sell categories are: "Playboy Bunny" (skinny with unnaturally large breasts), "BBW" (large bodied, very large butt and chest), and "Waif" (very thin with lil breasts/booty)
This is of course a result of our pornified culture and cultural trends. The BBW body type wasn't something I saw much of until after porn became mainstream. Any woman could pick up a camera and become a porn actor so body types other than the Playboy Bunny or waif came into focus. Viewers would stumble upon or seek out images of sexualized bodies and the BBW trend took off. This was also spurred on by the cultural zeitgeist known as the Kardashians and their womanly figures.
I grew up with the extreme waif figure as the ideal to aspire to. Way before "body positivity" or "Healthy At Any Size" (objectively not accurate, being 350 lbs isn't healthy, it'll eventually cause extreme health conditions) were Instagram trends, my millennial sisters and I were starving ourselves to look like the heroin chic Kate Moss. I remember my gay best friend saying "You have a big butt" as an insult when I was trying on jeans at Old Navy. Funny how seemingly little comments about our bodies stick with us for years. Just wait until you hear what creative digs clients have come up with over the years.
Of course the BBW body type has gone in and out of vogue for centuries. We all know body types also very by culture. Ancient Babylonians worshipped a feminine goddess who was decidedly big boned and breasted. All body types go in and out of style depending on the cultural milieu. Rubenesque women were lauded for their childbearing hips and full bellies. But our modern western culture almost necessitates that women go under the knife to obtain the current ideal.
The Playboy Bunny body type couldn't have existed without the invention of saline breast implants in the 1960s. This allowed women to embody the Twiggy waif look while also maintaining feminine fun bags. I'd argue that this body type is still the mainstream ideal (see Kim Kardashian and most Hollywood women/pop stars) with one tweakment: now an unnaturally large butt is required to possess the "ideal" body type. So not only are women expected to diet/maintain a low body weight, get breast implants, but now we're expected to have a plump rear end that can usually only be achieved via surgery. When one maintains a skinny frame it's very difficult to simultaneously have a big ass. The gym can only do so much.
The Kardashians are still a lightening rod for cultural trends and caused a stir when they had their BBL's (Brazilian Butt Lift) reduced to tiny "Country Club BBW's" that still look fairly unnatural to me. Plastic surgery rates have sky rocketed in the years since social media came to the forefront, raising 19% from 2019. Women obviously are feeling the pressure to change our bodies and who can blame us?
We're told our appearance defines our worth and every time we log onto social media we see warped waists and arms, airbrushed bodies and boosted butts. #WWJD?
Being a woman whose looks determine a good chunk of her income is challenging. Stay tuned for Part 2 if you're interested in my personal experiences as a skinny SW, a BBW and a regular boring "average" (healthy) body type. I'm writing this while on the elliptical machine btw, so my body image is never far from mind.
Xo,
R ❤️🔥