Usually that is what clients were looking for. Many of the people I played with were married and were not looking for emotional involvement outside of our play. I do enjoy conversing after a scene or getting together for lunch with someone if we share outside interests. I have gotten to know a number of my regular clients as friends. But I firmly discouraged clients who are looking for dates.
Mistresses learn to head off that sort of attention.
In fact, you have a better chance of meeting dominant women, even professional mistresses, in the local community than of dating a mistress you are seeing professionally. In order to protect both ourselves and our clients from infatuations based on the intensity of play, mistresses create boundaries. Within the context of the fantasy, intense emotions are one of the clues that the scene is working. Hunger, arousal, and dark desires are felt by the mistress, shared with the submissive, and funneled back into the experience as further fuel for the intensity of the scene. Such intensity comes at a cost, however.