VIP party (2020): “carefully hidden, intricate economy, based on a complex brokering of beauty and status, to create an atmosphere in which people will spend $100,000 on alcohol in a single night.”

https://www.economist.com/news/2020/06/26/the-secret-economics-of-a-vip-party

“.. I was a model before I became a sociologist…”

I love this kind of anthropology-culture journalism.

The models are not exactly sex workers (“I wanna have fun. I don’t care about other people, like who is the client or whatever.” ) and are often poor. Many of the men are only millionaires.