I think it's a clever question, which goes way beyond the fact that the first 3 months of the year are traditionally slow, that things will pick up, etc. SC used to say that too, for a while. But there was a trend that lead to their demise, and I think the question Mr. Spock is asking is of that order: is there a trend that suggests that MP are slowly disappearing?
Very hard to say. To me, there are 3 types of clientele in this hobby:
- Group A is the high end patron, and connoisseur, the guy who gets off telling the guys who meet girls on 123, intime and humpchies that they're just looking for trouble. This group doesn't give a shit about MP...
- Group B is the regular Joe with some remnants of christian morality, who wants a little stimulation. This guy appreciates the company of beautiful women, even though they migh take his patronage for granted. He won't really mind if they're mechanic in their HJ. He doesn't expect more or less. This group, I think, will never disappear, and will continue to patronize MP.
- Group C is the chronic hobbyist: he's looking for thrills, cheap or not. He's ready to try all sorts of places, depending on his budget: high end agencies, pricey MP, pricey independents, the occasional budget independent who might just be like Stacy, the sweet girl with the cute ass and tits who hosted on st-denis and retired a few months ago, to the dismay of many a merbite. This group has finally realized - through a kind of collective conscousness - that MP are just too pricey: 140$ for HJ and some twerking in a place where you never realy know who's gonna be available just doesn't cut it for these guys.
MP had been patronized by groups B and C for a while, but now group C has just lost faith. They prefer to pay for an agency girl once in a while, and sometimes patronize the safe bets they hear about from guys like Jalimon, and a few other senior merbites. Hobbying knowledge is getting more refined, that's part of the explanation, I think.
My prediction is the next in line to experience a demise is the budget okay-quality incall agency like Vero's in Brossard and the one that hosts in Chomedey. In their case, the hike to 120 hh brought them over the edge; there are more and more okay-quality independents on the south shore now who charge 100 hh and are as cute and sexy as the econo lodge women. Still very hard to find, but their market share will soon increase IMHO.