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A real story – becoming a whore
July 15th, 2009
Here’s a real story. It’s happening in more places than you think.
This recession has many casualties.
‘The housing market was good to me in 2007, but it just dried up in 2008. By 2009 it was looking pretty dire’.
‘My job had gone and I had a £400,000 home with a mortgage of £350,000 to service. Well that’s the value I thought it was before things went pear-shaped’.
‘I had over £20,000 debt on my credit cards. I never imagined that things would grind to a halt’.
‘I was at my wit’s end’.
‘Then my friend Lucy told me about an evening job she’s been doing working as a table dancer.’
‘It was good money, she told me, and not hard work’.
‘So I started, dancing in my knickers in front of groups of drunken businessmen’.
‘I got paid £25 a dance and got to keep £15 of that each time’.
‘Life was good’.
‘But then I wanted more money’.
‘I changed jobs to a quieter club where I poledanced naked’.
‘And then, a few weeks later it happened. I accepted £400 from a businessman to go back to his hotel and do anything he wanted’.
‘I had turned from successful businesswoman and property owner to whore’.
Ethnographic research – Leaptomorrow