No shame or blame here, but when you take money for a service you offer, you are running a business. If you clean someone’s house, you may develop a personal, friendly or even romantic “relationship” with them, but what you have at the start is a business.
ML wrote about a business she was running as an entrepreneur. She did the bookings, set the prices, did the “advertising”, and even agreed to counsel others on how to get started. The service she provided probably differed according to requests, but in blunt terms, even if it was pictures of ones nice manicured feet, SB/SD involves exchanging money with someone in turn for sexual arousal, cyber or otherwise.
Let’s take all moral judgement, shame, blame out of this and discuss the “business” aspect that may answer some questions.
It appears that the customer can request the specifics and MK, as any entrepreneur, can adjust the price. I think they were negotiating terms and prices in the calls prior to meeting. He may have offered much more money if she came to his house.
LE have stated that AA had pictures of her on his phone , including one from a certain website. Her other “friend” said they had some connection and the friend was disturbed by things ML told him about that “relationship. This friend could be the other SD that MS spoke of. We will probably never know but, as someone suggested, she may have dismissed his concerns as jealousy.
But ML need not have talked about AA to her friends, because it was “business” not romantic, on her part. He may not have been important to her but she may have been becoming very important to him. She may not have sleuthed AA prior to accepting his business, but he had her phone number, knew she was local, and may have “sleuthed” her.
I think she met him, even maybe agreed to participate in his secretive behavior...”meet me at the park” “turn off your phone”....because they had arranged those terms as a business transaction.
If we start to think in terms of a business relationship, and financial “transactions” leading to the place, time and terms...with no judgement at all...some puzzles could well be answered.