Backpage is it real or the cops?

Yeah – Backpage is “real” in the sense it’s not the cops running it – yeah – there *are* some sting operations where cops post fake adds to lure jons and bust them – but busting jons for prostitution has been around as long as prostitution has been deemed illegal.

I would say less than 1% of adds on BP may be stings by the cops – if not then there would be hundreds and thousands of arrests every single day and that is not happening – more often than not cops either are looking for underage dancers that may be being trafficked; or the local politicians are trying to make a name for themselves and forcing the cops to do stings.

If all you want is just a massage w/ no sex involved – then you are definitely not breaking any laws and no way would you get arrested for just wanting massage.

w.r.t “real” what one will often encounter is that the girl in the ad’s pics is not the girl you will see when you meet her – many BP girls either use old pics of themselves when they were 10 years younger and 30 pounds lighter; or use fake pics of someone else- you can always leave if you show up and the girl does not look like what you expected.

But this does not mean than most of the time is not the same girl – just saying that it happens fairly regularly (lust like a strippers in a SC that tell you they’ll give you an awesome dance and then you get dances from them and they suck – it happens – but it does not mean it’s all the time).

There are sites that have a better reputation than Backpage and have escort reviews like TUSCL has strip club reviews – i.e. “theeroticreview.com” and others..

I'm bout to look up that erotic review. Lol

I was out with an old favorite dancer last night and told her I'd seen her ad on Backpage & didn't realize she'd turned to escorting. She swore that a former BF had posted it out of spite. I said if true, she ought to sue his ass for defamation of character. Then I realized she doesn't have any character. Lol

They use it to advertise their stings around this area, at least that's what they claim for the newspapers.
And, based on the newspaper reports of these stings, they all involve the police renting out a room, posting the ad, and getting the customer to walk into there sting. I would guess their too afraid for their safety actually doing an "outcall"?
But, that's only going to be a very small percentage of the overall number of ads, even when they are active. The rest are 40+ year old women claiming to be 20, half black women claiming they are asian, real actual asians claiming to have just arrived from China after spending 2 years working in LA, another 2 in Houston, another 2 in Chicago, etc. And a bunch of junkies claiming "no drama"....
Ya, maybe 2-3 of the others are real. probably fewer percentage wise than the police stings.

For massages, check out the reviews on TheEroticReview.com (you have to be a member to check the Massage Girls section) or eroticmp.com.

For pictures of the ladies, use tineye.com. It'll flag if a picture shows up in multiple sites. And if you see those pics showing up in, say, Russian dating sites or different amateur porn sites, it's a pretty safe bet the pics a fake.

From my experiance, your pretty safe from a police sting if you get "outcall" (escort comes to you) service. Now, that being said, your better off aproaching a couple of dancers at a SC and getting them to come do a private party, allows you to do some screening.

You got a much higher chance of either getting ROB'd or a bait-and-switch scenario on BP than getting busted. Stick to more credible sites like TER.

Get a VIP TER account and look at the reviews. Never use an escort with no reviews. You can spot the gems with a little practice.