I've been signed up with a modeling agency in Miami for 5 years. But since I'm not a serious model, not a tall girl, not available when they snap their fingers, not interested in working for free, I don't get many 'bookings'. I have learned to avoid the pimp / ho gig, just because the models might be working 'it' for free, meaning to add 'it' to their portfolio, doesn't mean the agency wasn't paid to procure them. I can't stomach that type of exploitation. And this is often how it works for the scourge of the modeling scene here...car and boat shows.
The agency tells you that you won't be getting paid for the car show, but that you can charge $5 per photo that some groper, loser or slimeball pays to stand next to you and have his picture taken while he slides his hand down inside your bikini bottom and grabs a half moon. Well, the agency doesn't go into such glorious detail, but you know the drill. While the agency might be getting $5,000 to provide 25 girls to the 2 day show, you aren't getting 'paid'. The agency tells you that some girls make $100's of dollars at these events. Hmmmm, show me the girl who does. I know, porn stars or has-been playmates! Yes, usually a porn star or two or Miss June 2002 Penthouse Pet will show up at these events, but they will not only be paid because their hustler agents have pimped them out for marquis value, but they also get the best spot (raciest boat or hottest car) and make more $ posing with losers, while their bodyguard monitors those roving hands. If I wanted to collect $5 per grope, I'd be working as a table dancer.
Then there is the other type of gig for which you get paid quite well, too well in fact! Agency gets call from rich loser dude who doesn't know enough pretty girls to invite to a party, so calls a modeling agency to hire some hotness to heat up his party scene. But it is muddled in his mind, is there a difference between a modeling agency and an escort service??? Escort services in Miami often call themselves by modeling agency type names: Cover Girls, Miami Models, Bikini Models, Paper Dolls. These aren't their business names, meaning you can't write a check to Bikini Models, but these are the names they advertise under and by which they answer their phones.
Back to the legit modeling agency. Agency doesn't do much vetting on the rich loser dude other than to confirm his identity, run a criminal check and did his credit card deposit go thru. So you're asked if you would like to work a party. Think of the opportunities, you might meet some people (the way the agency girl says people, means that you haven't really met people before, but you will now). Wear something sexy! You will be paid $500 to be there from x time to x time. So you and 4 other girls from your agency show up at the party. Losers try to squeeze your melons or kumquats, ply you with too many drinks and make suggestions about going upstairs or out by the cabana. A couple hours later, the answering service for the modeling agency gets a call that "the girls aren't friendly enough". "Mr. X, we are a modeling agency, not an escort service. We reviewed that with you when you signed our Agreement." "Well I thought that escort services can't talk about sex or have contracts about sex, so I thought the Agreement was just to cover the time that the girls would be here, but that they would, you know, have fun with my guests!" This situation has happened to me twice, so I told the agency to strike me from party gigs. A few months later, the agency struck themselves from party gigs as well, due to complaints from the models about near date rape druggings, and other sexual situations which weren't part of the deal. The sad thing is, other modeling agencies still put their girls out on party gigs, and this I'm sure, puts them at risk.
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