Note from Bashful : This call for a price survey was originally posted on my old website on March 18, 1997.

If you have been reading my website for a while, then you should know that I don't comment on the prices of individual ladies. The most popular page of my FAQ is section 6.2 on prices, where I hum and haw a lot but somehow manage to state that the "average" price per hour is somewhere around $150 to $200. Also, you will note that I sometimes leave the price in a report that is submitted to me, but I always allow the ladies to have full control over all the information that I have about them, so if they (individually) have asked me not to post their specific prices, then I will of course do as they ask.

I am just a prisoner of their love.

But the thought occurred to me that though I don't dare post the price that a gentleman paid for the favors of one of our beloved ladies, what if I decoupled the two pieces of information? That is, what if I ran a survey and asked my loyal readers to tell me the prices that they have paid but not tell me who they were with or even which brothel they were at? This way, the ladies would have full control over their own individual pricing, which is their prerogative, but we fellas would know such vital statistics as the average price over all the ladies at all the brothels, and get some idea what the lower and upper bounds of the distribution are.

Of course, I am sure that many of my readers will say, "But that doesn't mean anything unless we know the names of the ladies." Please pardon my French, but that is bullshit. If you have an idea of what the pricing distribution is, then you know a hell of a lot! So next time you sit down in the privacy of a lady's room and negotiate with her over what toll she charges for her to swing open her gate, then you have some context to see where she fits on the distribution curve. You see, if you don't even know what the distribution is, then she can quote any price she wants AND say something like, "Oh, but ALL the girls have prices like that!", and you wouldn't know if she was telling the truth or fibbing bigtime. What I am proposing is that we still allow our precious ladies to be able to quote any darned price that they want, and without us even knowing what other guys have paid before for her services, BUT we will now know where this particular lady's prices fall relative to the prices of all the other ladies. Sounds like useful bargaining information to me!

"But Bashful, you're comparing apples and oranges!". Yes, to a certain extent I am going to be averaging over apples and oranges, but still I believe that this can be very important information. There are certain things that I can do to make the analysis more meaningful, like computing hourly rates for the main comparison, and separating the data into two groups, those where vaginal penetration (sounds clinical, doesn't it?) happened and those where it didn't. And I could perform a linear regression analysis to see if the hourly rate itself decreases with increasing session length, as I've always suspected it does, and by how much.

So here are the ground rules. I will only take submissions from report authors. If you have some information to give me but are not a report author, then it is time to get off your duff and send me a field report! Send me a message with subject line "Bashful's Pricing Survey", and message body with the following format :

SESSION #1 :

TOTAL COST : $250

TOTAL TIME : 1 hour, 10 minutes

ACTIVITIES : Cum-once vaginal intercourse (girl-on-top, doggie), 
   oral (she sucked me), lengthy massage.

SESSION #2 :

TOTAL COST : $500

TOTAL TIME : 2 hours 30 minutes

ACTIVITIES : Cum-once vaginal intercourse (missionary), oral 
   (she sucked me, cunnilingus, I sucked her tits), cum-once 
   breast massage.

SESSION #3 :

TOTAL TIME : 45 minutes

TOTAL COST : $110

ACTIVITIES : I wore her brassiere and panties, and I scampered 
   around on the floor on all fours and barked like a dog while 
   she spanked me and repeatedly said, "Naughty doggie!".

The format you submit doesn't have to exactly conform to that given above, but the information must be there. In particular, it is critical that you tell me the cost and the time. If you've forgotten the time, then give me your best estimate ; this gets averaged out anyway. And please tell me what specific activities you performed. If I get enough data then I may be able to provide estimates for things like simple half-and-half, blowjob only, two-girl party, etc.

It is preferable that you give me all your information in one e-mail message, with each separate session clearly noted. I do NOT want you to tell me who the lady was, or which brothel it was at, but please do give me information on all your recent (within the past two years) brothel visits, whether you reported them or not. I know that some of you make lots of visits but only report on a few ; tell me about all of your visits.

I require a minimal sample size. At least a full dozen of you report authors need to participate ("We're gonna give you a fair trial before we hang ya!") with at least forty sessions among them. The more the merrier, and the more meaningful the results. The final results will average over many things, such as time of day, time of week, size of brothel, customer negotiating skills, etc., but this still allows us to know what to expect.

My final results will be a simple histogram of per hour rates horizontally, with number of samples vertically, and the distribution's average and standard deviation. This will be done twice, for those parties with vaginal intercourse, and for those without.

I remember many of the report authors, but some of you I've only heard of once before. If I can't identify you as a report author, then I may need you to tell me which report(s) you wrote. But only if I'm not sure that you are a report author.

Look, boys, I can't do this without your help. I am sure that you are going to find this information very helpful, so please help me and yourself by taking the time to submit your survey forms. Since I'm not going to identify individual ladies, there is no need to worry that you are being disloyal to them. By not telling me their names you are remaining loyal. Of course, for some of you I will be able to guess who the lady is that you are reporting on, but I will keep that confidential.

Finally, I am sure that certain "courtesans" are going to ask you not to participate in this survey. It would be misplaced loyalty for you to adhere to her wishes. You are not violating her trust by giving me the information that I am requesting, since nobody will know that it was her price. You owe some degree of loyalty to all the other readers out there who are in the same boat as yourself, and to me, Sir Bashful, who toils tirelessly to bring you the best source of information on the heretofore mysterious inner workings of those notorious Nevada brothels. Hey, guys, we've got to stick together!

If she gives you hell, then just lie to her. Go ahead and publicly denounce me as a cad and a scoundrel, tell the whole world just what a jerk and asshole I am. I'll play along with you and will provide you with plausible deniability, and if necessary I'll even swear a sacred oath upon the hard disk of my home computer that you did not send me any information. But just be sure and send it to me! This information could take a couple of months to trickle in and compile, but I will persevere and if I don't hear from you soon then you can bet that next time you send me e-mail I will be asking for your contribution in my reply.

"WHAT!?!?", you are saying. "Sir Bashful is recommending that we lie to our most cherished courtesans?". Yep, you read that right the first time. I remember a line from "Lonesome Dove", "If a fella isn't willing to lie for a poke, then he doesn't really want one."