Prostitution isn’t easy and I know because I have done it, it’s a fast way to make money and I hate when people say ‘there are others who struggled but didn’t turn to that’, no they didn’t but they probably added on another 20 hours to their working week to get a measly £150 and I bet they didn’t see their kids much either.
I got into it when my DD was 3 and there was 7 weeks until Christmas, and I was at college FT, I had been a temp up until about September when I started college and I thought to cover Christmas I would apply for a budgeting loan from the DWP, infact I was certain that I’d get the loan, well I never got the loan and I panicked about Christmas and thought that a normal job would be crappy wages because I’d only be able to work part time, and then there was finding a job, applying for it, interviewing for it and thoughts like ‘would I be paid in time for Xmas, as a new employee I may need to work a month in advance before payment’ etc, etc, and I knew a woman who worked in a sauna and I was always intrigued by her, anyway I decided screw it I’ll work as a sex worker, and I made £480 on my first ever shift and that was it, I was hooked on the fast cash.
I could have gotten a really low paid job but I wanted a proper amount of money, not just a little, I wanted nice clothes for myself and daughter, I wanted the security of never worrying about money, and I had worked in offices before my daughter was born and whilst I was pregnant but I hadn’t worked long enough in the company (the one I worked in when I was pregnant) to get maternity pay (this was 2002) and on the day my waters broke then my DDs ‘father’ went to the pub after work and switched his phone off and then I never heard from him again until my DD was 4 months old, this is what forced me into benefits, we weren’t married either.
I ended up working in the sex industry for 10 years on and off because if you can do it once then that’s it, ‘your in’ so to speak, and you always need money so the thought of getting a normal job and being paid a week what I could be paid in 2 hours wasn’t exactly thrilling, I ended up having to leave college because being a single mother, going to college, and working late nights in a sauna the day before college was all starting to catch up and I started missing days and I got dropped from psychology due to poor attendance so without that, then the NC wasn’t worth anything and so I quit college.
Doing sex work for that long has ruined a major part of my life and I cannot be arssed with the men, ‘but some girls like it’ is their standard reply when you tell them that’s its only ever about the money for the girls, men that pay for sex on a frequent basis CANNOT, WILL NOT accept the truth about prostitution, and you think to yourself look at all the information out there about prostitution on the TV and on the internet and your telling me that these men don’t know that it’s about money, 
the truth is is that because they pay for it then their very fragile egos won’t accept that beautiful young women are only sleeping with them because they’re being paid too, it’s seriously like they block the money part out, and they don’t want to believe that they are exploiting us either. It doesn’t help either with programs about sex workers who say that they just love sex and this is why they do it, every hooker tells her paying punter that she just loves sex and this is why they do it, it’s a bloody myth and the manager of the very first sauna I worked in said to me “if the punters ask why you do this job then always say coz you love sex, they don’t like hearing that it’s about the money”, and don’t I bloody know it, I have had a bad review on that god awful site named UK Punting and all because I told a guy the truth about why I did that job! This is what they get like when you tell the truth, it has also made me wary of men, and the amount of men that openly admitted to being into teenage girls is astounding, it’s like because your just a prostitute then they have no qualms about telling you what unsavoury characters they are, they’re disgusting.