Hands On Pro! June-July 2012

The workshops started Thursday 7 of June and end on Thursday 26 of July. They will run every Thursday between these dates. For confidentiality and safety reasons, the address of the venue in Central London will only be sent to you once you have booked your place through contact.swou@gmail.com

1-3 Massage with Davyd

This is an all-level friendly, informal but structured massage workshop. Everyone is welcome from complete beginners to advanced masseuses. The
focus will be more on having an interactive, skill-share workshop than a teacher/ students structure.

We will be doing mostly Swedish massage which is oil massage applied directly on the skin. It’s a fascinating way to cultivate your touch and get to meet another body in a different way. Hopefully we’ll have time to do a bit of acupressure and other techniques too. The objective of this workshop is for everyone to gain some basic massage techniques and a little anatomy knowledge that will hopefully prove useful to people in their work as a sex worker.

Massage is a good skill to have in this job. It can make you look just a little bit more special to a client and is very useful to relax a nervous client and put him at ease.

And of course we’ll all get to be massaged for free!

Come and join us in this fun experience!

Davyd has been working in London as a sex worker and sensual masseur for 3 years. He also works as a “regular” massage therapist and has trained in
different styles of massage. Apart from the healing side of massage, Davyd also has a strong interest in massage as bodywork and in anatomy and physiology.

3.30 / 5.30 Marketing for Sex Workers with Manu B

This workshop aims to introduce a marketing perspective to the sex work business. The objective is to expose simple tools such as frameworks, methods and check lists so that sex workers can apply them according to their specific needs and objectives. A few main concepts and tips will be presented followed by an open discussion.

Manu believes that the best way to achieve being treated and respected as professionals is to be real business men and women, and this can be very easy. All we need is to get a business mindset, and the use of marketing techniques is the perfect approach to get there.

Key words: USP; customer value, satisfaction and loyalty; marketing mix; marketing tools; swot analysis; pricing strategy; underpromise&overdeliver; competition; advertising; branding; social networking; payment methods; privacy; WOM…

Manu is a male escort based in London who has an MBA in Marketing.

6 / 7.30 IT Skills with Ms Tytania

Design your own free website using WordPress.

In this beginner’s workshop, Ms Tytania will teach you how to design a basic, but functional and stylish website using WordPress. You don’t need to be IT savvy to use WordPress. You have the last word on how you want to sell your work and how you present yourself to your clients.

A website designed and run by yourself is the first step towards independence as a sex worker. It gives you the agency to decide who you are, how you want to present yourself, and where you want to advertise.

It’s a good way to network with other sex workers and it’s also a great tool for self-expression, so if you are sick of being perceived as a service – providing piece of meat – design and update your own website! It’s your shop window to the world and to your clients.

We will also aime to create a skill share environment in which we can teach each others how to navigate different websites such as Adultwork and Gaydar, as well as some marketing basics, to help each other be more internet savvy.

Ms Tytania has been a professional dominatrix for 10 years. As well as real life sessions she also produces her own content website, the Urban Chick Supremacy Cell. From her early days in the industry, she understood the importance of agency for a sex worker, in any branch of the industry. She has given talks and workshops on Japanese rope bondage, the cross-over between art performance and sex work, and on professional domination and authenticity.

Self defence and Martial Training.

More info coming soon for Fast Defence system training!

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