Have you ever considered sex work? Alexis not her real name! I am a twenty-two year old English undergraduate student moonlighting as an escort. How long have you been working as an escort?
Why would somebody want to sleep with this particular ideal? What kind of images does one need to project in order to get the other person off? It all seemed incredibly barbaric and primal to me, though I now appreciate that aspect of it. This curiosity grew as the wave of erudite sex-workers hit the blogosphere, right when I was about sixteen. I also read the Nancy Chan column on Salon. It gave me an open mind about this kind of work.
Years went by; I moved out to a new country for university, lived alone, had complete freedom from both family and friends. I had a lot of casual sex, though I was never paid for it. It was a serious education in both sex itself and learning about the utter disposability of having multiple partners. An armour was built, so to speak. She had a few stripper friends in the city, who pointed her in the direction of a woman-run agency. She started first and her enthusiasm drove me to finally see it for myself.
Are you open about being an escort? Why or why not? Being closed about my job is a choice, not a necessity. The decision to keep mum has more to do with sustaining this dualityββkeeping my job and life separate. Did you come from a religious background? How do you think your family would react if they knew? My father, bless his argyle socks, put a lot of emphasis on education.
He taught me to question everythingββincluding authority, which has led me to become a lot more independent, which is a huge part of why sex work appeals to me. My stepfather is a champ.
