Under male escorts for Sydney listings, there have been a lot of college/university students, as well as alot of travelling escorts, from overseas. A percentage of these people were not good escorts, seeing there work as a way to get access to easy money for doing very minimal of what they would have stated in their ads. Lying to clients and putting photos up that were either of someone else (fake) or were so long ago (when they looked more enticing) that they did not look the same now were just two tactics being used to deceive people. Also to note there were a growing list of male escorts advertising as being on prep, so consider what you will from that.

If you go to craigslist you find previous escorts ads now advertising as massage ads under therapeutic services and/or mene seeking men personals.

Like any industry that is affected by changes workers have to adapt, and just because gay & trans workers are affected doesn’t mean they are being singled out, every sex worker is being affected equally by the loss of this advertising site.

Backpage.com was seized by US authorities due to issues of child trafficking.