>>82778818 (OP)
>What is being a prostitute like?
I was only briefly a male escort, but it's not bad initially, you get to fuck and you get paid for it which is a win-win, but one thing you realize later on is that you're not having sex for fun, you're having sex to fulfill someone else's desires, so if your client is bad at kissing, you just have to tough it out and fight the urge to pull away, and while the clients I had were super nice, you'll inevitably run into a horrible one, like
>>82778898 did, which is why I stopped meeting men for money.
also, your clients don't disappear after you had sex with them, so you might run into them in public while they're with their wives and that's fucking awkward.
>Do they just do drugs to escape the pain?
Some definitely do, I abused substances because it made work a lot easier, pregabalin makes you a lot more enthusiastic and horny, you'll be shit at conversation but you're renting your body out, not your brain.
Though the money you earn can have you earn more than minimum wage with minimal effort, so a drug addiction isn't all that hard to maintain.