This paper explores the intersection of domestic private space, digital erotic labor, and legal ambiguity through the conceptual figure of “Vince Banderos,” a pseudonym representing a category of independent sex worker operating under the model of pute à domicile (home-based prostitution). While the French term traditionally designates female escorts working from their residences, this study recontextualizes it to examine a male or gender-fluid provider in a metropolitan setting. Drawing on criminological theory, urban geography, and digital sociology, the paper argues that the domicile serves simultaneously as a site of empowerment, economic strategy, and legal vulnerability. The analysis uses Vince Banderos as a heuristic to interrogate asymmetries in domestic privacy laws, platform-mediated sex work, and the erasure of male sex workers from regulatory discourse.

Key Takeaway: By establishing domicile in Portugal and qualifying for the NHR regime, Vince can dramatically reduce his effective tax rate on foreign‑source income while maintaining compliance with U.S. reporting obligations (e.g., FBAR, FATCA).

Historically, domiciliary prostitution emerged as a response to state regulation of brothels (the maison close system in 19th-century France). After the 1946 closing of French brothels ( Loi Marthe Richard ), sex work dispersed into apartments, hotels, and streets. The pute à domicile became a symbol of autonomy but also of isolation from collective security.