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[Xithras]

50. I've mentioned on DU before....

...that I had a relationship with a young woman while I was at Cal who basically put herself through college that way (she started by renting a room in our apartment, but we ended up dating). She worked for a high end escort service and took home over $400 an hour after taxes. She also did weekend trips with wealthy business guys who took her to Paris, the Med, and all sorts of other places, and she could easily clear $5000+ dollars in just a few days time. And keep in mind that those were early 90's wages. I'm sure women in that field make far more money today.

She was a highly intelligent woman, wasn't sexually abused or hooked on drugs, wasn't being forced by a pimp. She could have easily pulled student loans to pay her tuition, but chose to go the escort route simply because she didn't want the debt. She typically only worked a few days a month, and went all the way through grad school 100% debt free. Last I heard, she was a married mom working at a research lab somewhere in the SF Bay Area.

I once asked her why she was dating me, a poor broke college student, when she had all these rich guys throwing money at her and asking her to marry them (she used to get about one marriage proposal a month, and refused them all). She said that I kept her "normal".

Stereotypes about escorts are about as accurate as any other stereotype, and there are a lot of young women who engage in that sort of thing without being "broken", or "exploited" or "abused". It's not something I'd want my own daughter to do, but I wouldn't freak out over it either if I discovered that she was (we might have a long talk about safety to assuage some fears, but that's about it). To some people, sex really isn't a big deal.