Comments on: The Real Legacy of Belle de Jour

By: Sandy Kilos

Sandy Kilos — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:17:02 +0000

What do you think of it ?

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:14:43 +0000

For what it’s worth, the only caveat I would have with my daughter becoming an escort is that I would hope that it was on the road to something else. Escorting isn’t a life-long career to me, though I respect those who have chosen to advocate and continue working throughout their lives. Then again, bartending isn’t a life-long career to me, nor cleaning or sports. It’s my privileged upbringing talking, professional or bust.

If the time came, and she were in my shoes, studying a punishing and at times expensive postgraduate degree, and she wanted to earn money in way that was enjoyable and efficient – she can have the benefit of my experience and my blessing. I am overjoyed by Brooke Magnanti because she is exactly the kind of girl I see around me. Smart, educated and going places. While professional sex is a worthwhile career choice (and I have met many admirable women who see themselves doing this their whole lives), many women choose this job as a path to something else, happy and secure. I’ve met future doctors, lawyers ( I have a 172 LSAT though I didn’t pursue that path), scientists, teachers, small business owners. I’ve met wives who worked with their husbands’ blessing because they wanted another house.

It’s just a job. A really, really well paid job, that is in equal turns, bizarre, incredibly enjoyable and thoroughly mundane. Not everyone should do it, but people who faint at the sight of blood probably shouldn’t be doctors and people who are bad at maths, shouldn’t be accountants. It’s just a job, and all of us who do it, are just people.

By: Consirvative

Consirvative — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:00:53 +0000

Well I see censorship is alive and well in the UK. I tried to post a comment on Liz Hunt’s telegraph article starting with “You ma’am, are an idiot.” and ending with “…you don’t know sh*t.” It was never posted. Then after a firestorm of negative comments against this “journalist,” the adding of comments was (apparently) shut down on the 23rd of Nov. It must be nice to be able to control the media like that. Very William Randolph Hearst I must say. I would actually love to tell Liz that she doesn’t like writing and disallow her to do it. “No Liz, you couldn’t possibly like writing, it’s simply Daddy issues. No Liz, accept it. Get away from the computer.”

By: Ingrid Nevin

Ingrid Nevin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:54:05 +0000

I suspect it would be hard to find research you wouldn’t be aware of in this area. ;)

But I posted those mainly for SS or anybody else who expresses interest in research but also sounds like they are just starting out in looking at the indoor business. I am beginning to realize that after 3 years of following blogs and discussions I came across a huge number of references that are not immediately apparent and may take some time to come across. Whenever I try to simply google such information, it doesn’t show up in the first dozen of returns.

By: hmgfiae

hmgfiae — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:13:52 +0000

unfortunately, it’s sort of the same in lots of countries. Research pays in the private sector (where it’s capitalistically driven, thus not necessarily bad or evil, but most probably boring to death and not so much for the sake of science), but not so much in the public/education sectors (where you can do what you want, but you won’t have financial support, and don’t expect too much moral support from your so-called peers either, because it can become a bit cat-fight-y in the academia…)

I haven’t been to that many countries where I saw public sector researchers make a good living. You can live on it, of course, like in the US, but it’s a choice you have to be fine with.