I mean, I'd always thought of escort work as having to entertain some horribly greasy fat piggy guy with a cigar, ready to grope you I went out with him, and we just talked all night. He was an architect, about 40 or so, and he was looking for young premy gro take to ms ore party so nobody would think he was ust a sour old bear He'd been married a couple of times and was recently divorced. He said he hadn't got round to meeting new people because he'd imnersed himself in his work, instead So l dressed up and went to the party and made out 1 was his friend. I got t4 and the agency collected E12.
The agency told me the second guy I met was a friend — well he was a pretty regular customer - and they said he was completely trustworthy. He was the nicest guy 1 met, a sort of d-style gentleman. He was 60. 1 La director of a stockbroking freshly liberation at that stage so 1 found it difficult not to talk about it. I just nagsed him a lot about women's lib, and he seemed to enjoy it.
PIECES OF MEAT Then there were two young boys who took me and another girl out. 1 was usually on my own, so it was nice to have another woman to talk to -sad that these two young boys should have to go to an escort agency to get some girls. I think they were Pakistani, but said they were Persian, which they thought was more socially acpeptable, When 1 was getting fed up with escort work I went down to a night club in Mayfair, which had about 25 girls working as hostesses. I'd seen an ad in a newspaper no experience Decessary and at this stage I was thinking of writing an article about my experiences.
T thought, well, I've got to get omething out of all this degradation, so I figured I'd better find out about hostessing too. I went along and the eww asked met wantec to start that night. So I said okay, and sat down with the girls.
There you really feel like meat. We were all sitting at tables around the bar and the customers came in and syed you up and down and then they would select which piece of meat they wanted to sit with.
You get a fiver to sit at a table with a guy and you must drink two bottles of champagne at around t8 a bottle. If you only drink one you're not really a good hastess. We had to fleece the guys For is much mone As We could get. Then most of the girls go case as - going all the way, It just doesn't pay otherwise, because you're WHAT'S LEFT on while sailse home als such for onders of 10 er more.
ELP Socialini Challenge. Greenwic UNTER TROOPS GUR MORTAn COUT ectio ale lo be followod by pla at 7.30pm Socialist Chailenge 3 August 1978 Page 8 Nearly all the girls went case. The going price was E25. They said to me 'If you get chosen tonight and you si with a guy and you don't want to go case, because it's vour tirst niebt and you might feel funny about it, then try and sell himto one of us."
This b what they do. 1f sou've got your period or. you just don't far the guy, you pass him on. Of course, I didn't get chosen, and I couldn'! face It again after the first night.
Then came Super Pig, pul me off. He imagined escort customers would be. He was short and fat and greasy. And he was a merchant banker, with a fat cigar.
The other escorts had taken me to fairly nice places but hadn't sort of overdone it. This guy was throwing repulsed by i money like by it: his indulgence. All the money was for him and all the pleasure was for him and every body should fall at his feet because he had lots of money. It made me sick. I went out with hit several times.
I was becoming more and more demoralised by could see that I wasn't getting much out of it anyway and that I was beins was etting my E4 out of Super Pi ind he was spendin evening and it used to break my heart because T'd think: "My God, can't we go and have a hamburger and give me the E1D0 inscead.
Super Pis propositioned me the first night - he said be desperately wanted to go to bed with me and he would pay me anything I wanted. Anything 1 wanted I could have. And Whitcome St Taicesin- 8a.1 Mass urgently needed WC2. 01-2401056 FIGHT RACISM' badges and T-shirts Ibadges black on white, shims black on red? awlable for ai anli-racisis.
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all the lips arrogant man. So 1 said No, cried. It sort of threw him a bit.
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LIVERPOOL Hear Course plus disse SPITALFIELIS Sunday. a Brick Lane, Most al the woman's nghi Museum Taven I thought ahout it quite scriously. | people. Kationally in my mind I didn'trbink it The girls at the club were saying 'These guys are so drunk and the drunker they are the hetter it is for you of property because you get it over quicker? 1 got speculators and inside information from the josis at the club. You miss aiways get paid first, and you must try and get the guy as drunk as possible.
Ithought about it very serioudy for a few minures with this banker. But 1 just couldn't do it, I don't know why, HOLE DOSES whether it was just because of his attitude, that he just felt he could buy arrogant man. So laid No, and i felt I was really selling myself and I'd gotten into women's liberation so I really was very aware how horrible it all Not just the degrading bit of being bought and sold, but being a little meat body and a little painted dell for thin guy, and trying to please han and boosting doing all the oid tricks you'd been taught all vour life whic were now so much against my grain.
When I got into women's liberation I just wanted to be me and I wanted customer? Don't people to see me as a person and not as here unt sou feel I was also difficult going when there were many things I desperately wanted to do - to write leaflers attacking these Pathouse 10-00 m and pretered. Ring Reland os 0n 36/ 5042 LIVERPOOL. Bocis at Centre Berehit:
Him Harlan County USA pua Change COMRADE ness reem Fortree Bi, London Ena SPANISH comrade w give Spanish classes to English comrad: intereste Confer Seciest Challenge, I then started to get some secretarial And then secretarial became developers land - and 1 thought: 'God, can be Thad a friend who was working in a Japanese club and she was making good money at it so I thought ld try That for a while because she said it wat It wasn't like the English clubs where LOT CECROUTE CENTR have to go case to make up the money to night clubs and always get a hostess to sit at their table, and they just talk and they're quite happy with that. So I worked there for a while.
The guys were mostly Japanese and they were quite casy to handle, bur whenever an Englishman came into the clab I used to try and hide because the first Englishman I sat with was just murder. He was so rude. He Nipped my nipple as he was talking fo me. I had a glass of champagne in my hand and got such a shock that 1 jumped and the champagne went al BLASHT gentleman I had on my other side 1 war so pissed off, 1 went inta the ladies and that's when the girls carne In and saw me crying. They said; A worry. Just wait betser, customer was obnoxious 1 used to go off to the ladies for 20 minutes Hostessing was okay to a certan exicht and I worked there for two months. With escort work you're on your own the whole time You fee sociNat 1 MALE FEMALE non-amekar for sher:
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organise of conspiracy physical bealth any good, and wasn't much good either because I was fairly alienated from my group and I couldn't go to my meelings. 50 l finally gave up hostessing.
'You didn't sleep with any of you merchant banker in the end? custners? You IT CHIS for the Yeh, I still find it difficult to talk about. It's still incredibly painful to think that I did it. I didn't do it wher he first propositioned me. I waited. because I couldn't do it that night But I thought I should do it because he had all that money.
I thought: "Please give me some so that I can use it for the moverneat, I's not much of a big sacrifice. Al that stage I hadn't really ever had an orgasm. I used to luck a lot and 1 thought well. 1 fuck couch anyway and I don't get much pleasure our of it so 1 might as well fuck for money.
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any doing this. I'll never be able to make it sexually. In the last year I finally did manage to have an orgasm That all came about through being in women's liberation, through getting to know my own body, masturbation, and through loving other women, just finding met how beaticiful cont The funny part is that after all the BENICE TO AC DONE ad is Lyi too polite to ask Super Pig for the money in advance, and I assumed be would be gentleman enough to give it to me afterwards, when I-explained whal I needed it for.
The next night be stood me up. T never beard from hintagain. Ilost qui all round. 1 was trying to be nice about The problem about escorting and EOSTCSSINL IS TOOT BES WOICE HID U taught to be beautiful objects and are conditioned all their life to please men, to caich a man to look after you BAd Dav all your bills and dress VOW 9: this beautiful onject.
And tbat's the type of woman who can fall into this trap, because this is what comes easy to me. The thing I'm most skilled at is charming a man and Mattering his ego. And I can do that very well 1 don't regret haviag worked as a is an experience, and rationally I kept saying, well, why shouldn't I.
But emotionally I found it very destruchive This contribution hy S is taken from WiTn SHERIDAN, in April 1973. Sociulist: Land others] At Work is a regular feature. If you know someone perhaps yourself • good subject, do letesknow.
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