In response to Glamour Magazine UK article ‘SL(Easy) Money?’
- By Panty Trust
- 5 July, 2012
- 16 Comments
Update: 6th July 2012. A copy of this article has been emailed to Glamour Magazine Editorial [email protected]
Written by Nicky of Forbidden Secrets, Panty Trust Member and Panty Seller since 2010 (with Serena’s contribution, member since 2006, retired panty seller).
Members wishing to share their used panty advice or insight on this article, please email support. Comments are open.
In June 2012, Glamour Magazine UK printed an article by careers advisor Tanya de Grunwald called SL (Easy) Money? featuring a used panty seller called ‘Sarah’.
Plenty of girls have been taken in by the article though. I have received numerous emails in the last few weeks from girls keen to set up their own used panty selling ‘business’. And who could blame them? The article, entitled ‘SL (Easy) Money?’, states that it is possible to earn £500 from just half a day’s work. I can assure them it is not true.
There is a lot more to it than simply popping to Primark on a Saturday morning, picking up 10 pairs of their cheapest panties, listing them on general commercial classified (which you can’t), selling them for £50 a pop (which you won’t), and posting them off in a jiffy bag (all in half a day?).
Each pair of panties has to be bought, photographed, edited, uploaded onto the website/auction site, emails have to be answered, websites have to be maintained, extra photos taken, panties packaged up, trips to the post office… That doesn’t even include the time speaking to buyers, confirming their orders, arranging payment, keeping them updated, flirting…
The time commitment is massive and it would be ludicrous to suggest that all this was possible in half a day. Then there’s the claim of selling them for £50 a pair. If the journalist bothered to do some research on the internet she would have learned that this simply isn’t possible because no one with a bit of brain would hand over £50 to a *stranger on the internet (*often male pretending to be female).
If you calculated how much potential money one sale makes, you really wouldn’t do it for anything other than the love of it.
This leads me on to the fact that I am also upset, frustrated and angry by the general acceptance of used panty girls being lying cheap mercenaries who find what they do “gross”. I quote the journalist when she was asked to comment: A reader letter in new August issue praises @GlamourMagUK for a balanced piece. What balance?
‘Sarah’ is quoted as saying “ Its pretty gross that men will pay good money for my used pants. I don’t want to think about what they do with them” [her panties]. A lot of buyers like to wear our panties, does this what grosses Sarah out? is she implying that men who wear women’s underwear are gross? Where is the balance? This is just plain intolerance Sarah!Further more she ‘exaggerates’ (deliberately lies to buyers!?) about the condition of her wear. Does she even wear the panties? It does not sound like it!
It’s not OK to lie to panty buyers (or people in general), it’s not OK to mislead and deceive buyers, its not OK to humiliate them, calling them gross, its not OK to be dishonest, its not OK to think panty buyers are stupid.
Sarah is exactly why Panty Trust exists, to make sure panty buyers are treated fairly, with respect, dignity, honestly, professionally, and not like a cash dispenser. Sarah is everything that panty buyers and the community hate and want to avoid.
If you are planning on selling used panties, don’t be a Sarah, Sarah is a despicable individual, show buyers respect, they will respect you back, treat them like meat, they will do the same, and this is the risk the article is exposing their readers to.
This is an appalling, misleading and irresponsible piece of journalism, misrepresenting girls I know who sell their panties, and allowing struggling students to think its OK to lie and treat people the way Sarah does. Shame on you Glamour Magazine. Shame on you Sarah.
I personally love to imagine what my buyers get up to with my panties; it’s part of the turn on, part of the fetish. If a seller isn’t in it for the right reasons they’ll soon give up trying and will vanish, very often with buyers’ cash.
We do it for own pleasure, to embrace our own sexuality and femininity, and of course because we like to spend our honest-hard-earned cash on new shoes!
SL(Easy) Money? It really isn’t.
Lying to people? It really isn’t OK.
Nickyxx
Well done Panty Trust.
I am on the scene not for long time actually, around one year and 2 months. But I NEVER thought of a single customer as a filthy individual and get disgusted of him. At opposite, fantasizing about what he will do with my item is a big fetish for me and the main reason WHY I AM SELLING MY USED PANTIES.
I can’t believe such a similar trash has been written on a magazine without the “journalist” make a serious check about her (real?) source(s). I am sure if she did a real case study, then the article would have been balanced and a lot different from this third league trash.
@PantyTrust @ForbiddenNicky a great article, well written.
@taxrelief4 Great article http://ow.ly/c1V6q @PantyTrust upholding standards of professionalism & respect for customers, way ahead of our bankers.
THANK YOU panty trust girls for sticking up for us, we are not meat, we are people like you, we have girlfriends, friends and jobs Why the need to rip us off only because we like to wear panties?
THANK YOU, this was a great response
Solidarity, Nicky. We are smart, sexual, feminist, proud, strong women and females making choices for our lives, with OUR bodies. And we respect each other, the fetish community, and those who buy from us. I am tired of a culture of shame surrounding sex and sexual desire that is not heternormative monogamy. I feel no shame. Sarah should feel shame. And so should Glamour. Love to all Panty Trust folks. xo
Worst carrer advice ever LOL
Well done, Nicky!!!! Well written and well argued. Glamour should be ashamed of themselves.
a fantastic response to the article. this should be sent to glamour magazine
Nicky that’s a perfect explantion as to why Glam Mag article is damaging and indeed irresponsible.
I dread the thought of our buyers being used and abused by a bunch of ignorant panty sellers who appear to live in a fictional world.
Kodos, and thank you for taking the time to share your feelings with us xx
Im really offended, I’m not gross, I am perv, you can call me gross but what does that make you ?
I hate sellers like those, they think they are better than anyone.
Thank you Panty trust selleer, we know you are never going to treat us like we are shit
wow that article seriously enrages me, who are glamour mag to publish complete and utter garbage like that there is no research into the used panty fetish at all and is totally one sided and aimed at getting students to deliberatly defraud men. Anyone who genuinly has this fetish will know that you are not going to make that amount of money, and will still do it because it is genuinly a fetish, also any guy who is in this fetish will tell instantly if the panties havent been worn for the length of time stated and will certainally spot if they havent been worn to the gym. As for sarah she repulses me, her suggestion that we are gross is totally rediculous we are normal every day people, not some sort of depraved sex pests. i find it pretty appauling that a magazine can publish trash like this and get away with it – somthing should be done about these idiots.
Hi lovelies x How offensive? I know I am not in a position to sell at the moment – but i still pop in to panty world now and again and this shocks and upsets me to the core. I’ve been selling panties for 6 years, now this is not some rip off-wear for 30 mins-industry!! I have always got to know my buyers, and built up a friendship with them, because if i am going to wear a pair of panties for them and they are paying me for a service, i want to make damn sure those panties are everything they are dreaming of!! how does Glamour suppose we get to know our buyers in a short time like they state? there is no way! the sheer time it takes not only to wear the panties for the required period, but the photos, editing, posting, emailing pics, etc its not a faddy easy buck.
I wouldn’t do it for the money, its not worth it! I do it for the enjoyment, and it makes me hot! Sorry to put that in there, but it is compeletely and utterly true.
SO SCREW YOU GLAMOUR MAGAZINE, and your ill informed reporters… come join panty trust and panty hog and see how to do it properly …. then you may appreciate just how hard we work…. we love our buyers x and we don’t need stupid, lazy and ignorant journalists who can’t be bothered to do their jobs to do their research properly telling the world how we supposedly work when they have no idea!!!
I challenge them to come and join our community for a month, and see how much work is involved when you do it the right way!
I would congratulate Nicky on her response to the article. I do not think there could have been anything added extra to her response so a massive thumbs up to Nicky, Middle finger up to Glamour Mag and come on all genuine panty girls, we know why we do it
the journalist has some explaining to do
she spent 5 seconds researching top
she should not be offering careers advice, she should be getting some
My first reaction to the article is that this is journalistic license at its worse. I honestly dont think ‘Sarah’ exists and the guy has made up and exaggerated the story for the benefit of extra readers and a story his editor will publish. First of all look at the money. Its ridiculous to say any panty girl can earn £7000 in six months. Her web site would need to be slick and constantly updated and the traffic alone would put it at the top of Google. As far as i am aware those of us that are genuine and on the first couple of pages of any search are not earning that kind of money and wouldn’t be able to. To wear that many panties would be impossible. I for one pride myself (and i will add get a very important kinky kick) out of sending my panties just as guys want them. I will even wear for longer if i have to, to get them just perfect and could never get through over a £1000 a month. At my prices i worked out that would be 67 pairs a month……….As i said Ridiculous.
This article has been pulled our from a Sunday Edition of a spread sheet surely. Lazy journalism, suitable for the Sun readers.
You’d be very lucky to get any response from the editor. In my experience, they never admit to anything what makes them look guilty and irresponsible.
Good effort tho.
Thanks for sharing.