...Be a pro-domme! From The Daily Beast: link

"...at $200 an hour, a piquant visit to a Manhattan dungeon for a spanking administered by a good-looking girl with a liberal arts degree is easier on a guy’s wallet than the “girlfriend experience” offered by many an Internet courtesan. If a pro-domme permits him to “satisfy himself,” the end result may be similar enough to what he would get from an escort—and less expensive. Men who pay for kink aren’t all diehard fetishists or submissives—a spanking isn’t essential to their personal happiness. It may be an occasional side thrill. Clients are middle-management types, small-business owners, dentists, young lawyers, even a few single males who see themselves as casualties of the gig economy. A fence-sitter—flirting with, not truly committed to kink—might discover that the antidote to a recession resides in the nearest S&M parlor."

I dunno...if the pay of top execs is about to get slashed, it sounds like there'll be less petty cash laying about for, ahem, 'entertainment expenses'. Though if you're going to be bent over anything, it may as well be a golden commode. less

I worked at one of the best dungeons in Manhattan for a month at the beginning of the recession (October)....There was a lot of talk even back then that business had definitely gone down in recent weeks/months.

It was a great experience, I'd definitely do it again at another dungeon. The management was a bunch of jerks, and since I was commuting a pretty far distance, it wasn't worth the money I was making. less