So, yesterday I met a prostitute...

[loveka]

In strange circumstances which are not relevent, but she was just a normal.woman, with 2 primary age children, works from home while they are at school. She said there is nothing she could earn so much from. I would never have guessed until she told me.

I just thought of all the women I read on here who find out their husbands have been paying prostitutes. She said nearly all her clients are married, They either have fetishes they don't want to tell their wives about or aren't getting sex at home.

I just thought, bloody hell, this must go on way more than most women imagine.

Choosing to sleep with married men is not what I would describe as normal. But I don't know what you were expecting. Many will be like this woman, many won't be. I do think it is way more common than people like to think. Sad really.

Well she’s not exactly just a normal woman living a normal life, is she?
It’s sad that she does this just because it pays more than she’s capable of earning elsewhere.

A friend of my ex (male) did it and made a killing. Much more common as more and more women want no strings!

I can believe it's much more common than people might think. Especially now you can advertise online.

Did she say anything about what fetishes her customers want to indulge?

More pimp propoganda. Even if true she represents a miniscule of prostituted women, and the reality of their lives.

Bloody hell, I wouldn't describe being a prostitute as having no strings. It has its own set of "strings" to deal with, which might be something that some women find more preferable to other ways of getting paid.

It's easy work to get into and a quick way to get paid. I know many women who have sold their 'goods' in some way or use sugar daddies (basically escorts).

What I meant is that she SEEMED normal. From what she said, her life is pretty normal.apart from.the 3 hours she spends with clients.

I was pretty shocked really. I don't understand the 'pimp propaganda ' comment.

I mean the " normalising" of prostitution as just another job opportunity for women. As opposed to the horrific and abusive reality it is. Look at Julie Bindel and The Pimping of Prostitution. Pervasive
Including on mumsnet.

I agree with you Ms. I have done a lot of reading about it, in the past. I hate the normalization of it in the European city where I work. Everyone bangs on about how legal prostitution empowers the women. Most are still pimped.

I guess the normalising of it would encourage some men too. It isn't as seedy to go to a detached house in rural Cheshire.

In her own house? Where she and her children live? That is so dangerous, all those men knowing her address, what she does . How does she vet her ‘clients’?

Apart from that, of course her life is ‘normal’!

I think this is really interesting op. I would love to know how she gets clients (Not for myself, just out if interest!). I mean surely a risk if doing it locally of it ending up being people you know.

I used to be a sex worker and I don’t think anyone would believe me if I told them. I wear Boden, play the piano and do PTA cake sales (not all at the same time).

It is WAY more common than you might imagine. Normal "decent" men. It could be any one of them. Any one of us could be that wife.

What I meant is that she SEEMED normal.

How did you expect her to seem?

It is without any doubt more common than you would hope, there are some horrible, selfish men out there who lack morals or decency.

Just out of interest I was going to see how many escorts were available in my area of rural Hampshire to see just how common it is out in 'middle England' but Tesco Mobile block 18+ content!

Umpteen- there will be plenty.

Bombadier I didn't expect her to seem anything. I met her and she told me. I was shocked that someone so seemingly ordinary was doing this.

Prostitutes are just people pretty much like anyone else, of course she seemed normal.

It's possibly a tangent but I sometimes ponder the sheer amount of porn there is. Whatever your position on porn, there is shitloads of it and that means that hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of women have been in porn.

You've probably met a lot in your life, people don't go around with Hooker written on their forehead.
I was forced into prostitution (I do mean by force) by an"ex". 90% of the men who paid to see me were normal family men, married or with partners, often on their lunch break or when they were meant to be doing their hobbies/at the supermarket/on the way home from work. A lot of them knew I didn't want to do it and was being forced. But because that meant I couldn't say no to anything, it just made me more popular.
There are thousands of women like I was. Thousands of men who pay because they want to use someone for half an hour for an orgasm.

Christ. That's awful. I hope you arr ok now.

Yes, in paying for an orgasm a woman is (in my opinion) degraded.

Her poor kids. If and when they find out they’re going to need a shit load of therapy. I’m sure she’s pretty messed up too.

Maybe, maybe not. It depends on your attitude and like it or not some people just don’t have the attitude that sex is important.

Her poor kids. If and when they find out they’re going to need a shit load of therapy. I’m sure she’s pretty messed up too.

How judgy-pants! How do you know?

Jesus - people in glass houses and all that...