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[ladyjanelly]

Hrm. I'm working on a hooker!fic and wondering if an element has been done before? It has to have been done before, as much hooker!fic as there is in the world?

Okay, so, there's a professional athlete, let's call him Jamie, and he hires a high-end escort, "Tyler." And after a dozen or so appointments and some outside-life events, Jamie says he wants to date. So they try, but Tyler has always kept a very clean compartmentalization of work and not-work and this is messing with his head. The first time they try to make love when it's not a financial arrangement between them, Tyler calls it off, and is like "We can date, or we can fuck, but right now, I can't do both." Has this been done before? Too many times? In an iconic work?

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[grackle]

That may be a new idea because I've read a LOTTTTTT of hookerfic and that's not striking a bell with me. I'm forgetful though.

[ladyjanelly]

Thanks! Now I just have to figure out what gives, like what breaks that holding pattern once they're in it...

[grackle]

You know a sneaky way to double check this? Put it on kink_finders as a type of story you're looking for. I'm really not reliable because unless something really stands out I forget them not too long after I've read them.

[james]

There's a Sid/Geno story with this premise; after they get together for real, Geno has to keep giving Sid a dollar each time they have sex, so Sid can relax and have good sex, otherwise he feels too much pressure to be perfect at it as "himself" instead of as a highly skilled professional. It's a fairly long story, and the premise works well within it, so while I agree there can never be enough good hooker!fic, I think you might want to make sure your story doesn't do the exact same thing.

It's called Nights Are Getting Colder and while it is about a lot of other things, if you're concerned about being too similar, your description made me think of this story immediately.

[kayim]

Seconded. I immediately thought of this story too, I'm afraid.

[ladyjanelly]

I opened the link and I'm sure I never read that fic. I'm not hoping to have an idea that nobody has ever heard before, just one that I didn't plagiarize from somewhere? If that makes sense at all...If it's that Sid can't relax without getting even a token payment, I don't think it'll feel the same. Or maybe it'll shake out different in the end. I'll have to write it and see.

[ladyjanelly]

Okay. I'm sure I never read this one, because ugh, 800 words of exposition leading into awkward and wooden oral sex scene. I just. Can't. I would re-read something if I thought I got an idea from there, but I'm sure I never read this, so I'm gonna pass. Thanks so much for the link though, and I'm pretty sure the other aspects of the fic will be different enough. I've got a Tyler-Squared fic that someone else said reminded them of aspects I mentioned above, so I'll check that one out, and make sure that's not where I got the idea.
Thanks again,
-J