The city of Wichita is looking at making it more expensive to operate an escort service or to be an escort, in hopes of discouraging people from going into that type of business.

Council members discussed several proposals at a workshop--including increasing fees and health exams.

Right now, fees for escort businesses are one hundred dollars a year. The new proposal would make that fee five hundred dollars.

Currently each escort pays 25 dollars a year for a license, that would go up to one hundred dollars.

While none of these changes are sitting well with people in the escort business, the one change a lot of people in the escort service are having a problem with is the city wants all escorts to get health screenings when applying for a license.

"People perceive escorts as legal prostitution but it's not."

Jessica is an escort we talked with about a month ago when the city council first talked about cracking down on escort services.

Now that the proposals are on the table, city council member Sue Schlapp who has been leading the charge for tougher regulations hopes people will think twice before going into this type of business.

"We don't want to encourage people to go into that business," say's Sue Schlapp, "but at least this way if we have the proper health screening, it's for their benefit and everyone else's. If they have to pay enough money so they have to think about it before they jump into it, I think that's important too."

Taxpayers we talked with are happy to see the city cracking down on escort services.

"I think it's a good thing, I think getting blood tests making sure everybody safe is a good idea."

"I'm not so sure there needs to be an escort services or anything else, it's an issue of morality, it brings up the question, is it an escort service or prostitution."

Right now these are just proposed changes to the city's current escort service ordinance. Council will still have to vote on these changes before they become official.