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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 …

“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 …

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 …

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, …

My objective as a teenager was to find the boys, to link up with them because they were the party, they were the event. Years passed, and the objective stayed the same, with the focus shifted to sanction my own creativity: find boys to make a band, find boys to make a movie—find boys because they’d…