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I took pride in being able to endure. I cherished my stubbornness as much as I coveted the money. Maybe that was my talent, my trade secret: that I’d inherited the selfish obstinance of my father. It was how I affirmed and sustained self-respect; I didn’t give up because I didn’t have to. And I was…

An escort friend of mine met this man before I did and said he told her a story about intentionally hitting a cyclist with his car without stopping to see if he—or she?—was OK. “This sums up his respect for humans in general,” she emailed me in her reference. “I almost left the date right then.” An…

He liked to keep the TV on. The TV, much more than my company, was his vacation. And it wasn’t a smoking room—no rooms are smoking rooms—but he smoked constantly. As I sat next to him, pretending to watch a VH1 documentary about a minor band from the ’90s, he told me to suck him off. I unzipped his…

I never had to do anything like that, and I don’t know that I’d have been able to. Any drama is too much drama; I require all my dealings to be neat. My most combative moments involved threatening to out a man who antagonized me, but I only resorted to that after suffering through months of invasiv…

If you market well enough, your reputation can do a lot of the work. No one likes to feel that they’ve wasted time and money or that they have bad taste or are easily duped. Circumstances primed clients to feel that they were with an irresistible woman, a woman most men yearned to be with and never…