Paramour is now open to Angel Investors
Want to make history with us?
Since 2021, we have been organizing around the mission of making the first all-gender, worker-owned escort agency. This has involved hundreds and hundreds of volunteer hours, completed by economically precarious FLINTA* people.
Paramour is nontraditional in many ways — including that, as marginalized people, we couldn’t provide our own startup capital. Everything we’ve needed so far, we’ve fundraised from the community.
Angel Investors are silent investors who choose an amount to invest. We offer 20% interest over the life of the investment. Repayment takes place when the company achieves your principle + interest in profit.
Interested? We welcome your questions.
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What will my donation be used for?
Monthly expenses, like our website and phone plan
Salaries for the workers currently doing 6-20 hours per week of admin work on a volunteer basis
Expenses for onboarding new members, like photo shoots, so that precarious members can still join Paramour
Paramour has overcome extreme obstacles so far during the development of this innovative agency. Knowing there is no time like the present to launch a revolution in the world of sex work, we launched ourselves into this project with passion, creativity and minimal resources. So far, we are extremely grateful to have received over 10,000 euros in donations from the wider sex worker, client, and ally communities. Our further development is still reliant on voluntary energy which we are hoping to change in the near future. Are you ready to support us?
Sex work businesses face multiple obstacles when it comes to accessing easy and fluid financial support, this is why we are reliant on donations and investors at this point. For example:
Many banks won’t open accounts for sex work businesses
Due to continuous political rhetoric about criminalization (including the Nordic Model), sex work businesses are generally not considered good investments
Most of our members were not economically stable when we began this process, which has required a lot of time that we have not been able to spend earning money
We specifically reject the standard model for agencies, in which the worker must pay 30-50% of their earnings to the company, as well as a huge fee for their initial photo shoot. We charge a booking fee to the client and no initial fee to the worker. It is important to us that there is no financial barrier to entry to Paramour and it’s safer working conditions.
Most grants for socially beneficial projects only apply to nonprofit businesses
Companies such as Google and Meta overtly forbid content relating to sex work, even when completely legal. We face very restricted advertising opportunities and shadow-banning, and we must self-censor our online speech
Our founders are all women and gender-diverse people who have faced systemic discrimination in the context of business in Gemrna
We are doing something no one has every done before. There is no roadmap, we are creating it