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4 months, 1 week ago

as if I were a captive animal doing tricks

Roger had an account on The Erotic Review and wrote reviews when a woman asked him to. When together, we followed the TER formula to some extent—the order is textbook straight sex, paid or unpaid—but he wasn’t an aggressive kisser and rarely wanted sex to last more than fifteen or twenty minutes fr…

—p.90 An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work by Charlotte Shane
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clients treated us better

Though my escort friends and I were scornful of clients who imagined our work as purely pleasurable, it could be a blast. Women with straight jobs who started moonlighting as strippers or call girls often left the white-collar world to spend more time at their sex job because it paid more, offered …

—p.77 by Charlotte Shane
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because it was near Penn Station

“You look better than your pictures,” he said after he opened the door. He’d sent me a blurry one of himself in sunglasses, from the chest up. He was in his forties and much heavier than I’d expected. I can’t remember if I told him my real name, but I hope not. He apologized for the quality of the …

—p.58 by Charlotte Shane
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payment concretized validation

My wildest dreams involved getting paid for being desirable, because payment concretized validation. Becoming desirable was a goal in and of itself, of course, but I wouldn’t believe that goal had been achieved until I had the money to prove it. I reasoned that if I were accepted into environments …

—p.56 by Charlotte Shane
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I trust my capacity to charm and seduce

Because I started sex work early in adulthood, I’m not sure if the lessons I attribute to the job are in fact lessons gained in the usual course of growing up. But judging from the public’s reaction when men who are married to great beauties cheat on their wives with less impressive-looking women, …

—p.38 by Charlotte Shane