Eight years working, six of them in Waterford after moving back from Dublin. Writes about money, autonomy, and the social contradictions she finds genuinely fascinating.
Last week I had a client - let's call him Michael - who works in tech management and makes about three times what I do annually. He spent most of our time together telling me how 'liberated' and 'prog
After eight years in this work, you start to see patterns. Not just the obvious stuff about what happens between clients and escorts, but the deeper currents of human need and transaction.Most people
I've been thinking a lot about how my clients construct their self-image through our interactions. Not just sexually, but economically. Every businessman who books me is performing a kind of social ch
The funniest thing about my work isn't the sex. It's watching middle-class men perform what they think masculinity looks like. They come to me with these carefully constructed personas, all hard edges
People always assume sex work is about sex. It's not. Not really. After eight years, I can tell you it's about something far more complicated: emotional labor and performance.Take last week. I had a c
I was having coffee with my mate Sarah last week, and she started going off about how 'degrading' sex work is. Classic middle class performance, right? She's got a corporate job where she sells her em
I've noticed something fascinating about my clients from professional backgrounds. They genuinely believe they understand financial precarity because they've read some Guardian article or watched a do
People always assume this job is just about getting naked and doing whatever some bloke wants. But after eight years, I can tell you it's way more complicated than that.Most of my clients aren't buyin