Important - Verification Pictures.

[Trinity-Belle]

It seems that AW have decided to try to force girls to show face pics in the form of our verification pictures.

For those of you who don't know, a verification picture is different to being a verified member and verified members are as susceptible to this problem as non verified members.

When a guy performs a search on AW, he has the option to tick a box to show only members who have a verification picture.

But AW have changed the system so that to appear in guys searches under that particular criteria, you must actually make that verification picture publicly viewable to all who view your profile.

If you, as a service provider, choose not to allow your verification photo to be viewed then your business will suffer as a result. This is strong arming girls to show their faces, and for no good reason.

Those of us who choose to remain discreet by not showing our faces will be disadvantaged and a number of girls have already commented that the number of views on their profiles has dropped recently.

So... I've written to them:

I uploaded a verification picture when I first started my current profile. It has always been there... I do have one, you've checked it and accepted it and it is still there. But it has just come to my attention that when a service seeker searches using the "has verification picture" option, my profile is excluded from the results, even though I do have one. From talking to other girls who have found themselves in the same position, it seems that this is true for verified and non-verified members alike. And it seems that the problem is that when a girl chooses not to make her verification picture viewable, she gets excluded from the search results.

This hardly seems fair.

Plenty of girls, escorts especially, choose not to show their faces for discretion reasons. It is important to some of thus, especially when we live in small, close communities, that we do not become "know" in the local area, and many girls working in all areas of this industry are concerned about being discovered by friends and family. The truth is that we *have* uploaded verification pictures and you *have* checked and approved them. So if a guy wants to find a girl who's verification picture has been checked by you, then he should be able to do that.

What should not be happening, in my humble opinion, is that every guy who happens across our profiles (some 180,000 in my case) should be given the opportunity to view that picture and see our faces. This is, as far as I can tell, a recent change to the system and I am just curious as to your rational, because as a professional service provider it seems crazy to me. Would you be kind enough to please explain it to me, because I really don't understand? Thanks. Trinny. x

Not terribly strongly worded, but it is my first mail and I probably won't get to speak to anybody sensible until the third attempt... we'll see.