The Whales That Got Away

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Preview: Every now and again, a client comes along who is abnormally wealthy and who wants to spend some money buying sex. Sometimes certain extremely wealthy men will become clients of sex workers who are not marketing themselves as “high-end”, instead seeking out sex workers who are poor and charging low rates because rich men so often don’t want to share too much of their money with people they seem to be beneath them. I’ve had a number of these clients, both when trying to brand myself as a sugar baby trying to get a degree and when I was clearly poor and using sex work as my full-time income. If you have community around you, other sex workers will help you to get the most money you can out of the client and encourage you to do so, but when you’re new and alone it often doesn’t occur to you to try and rinse them of all they’ve got or play at Pretty Woman for a while.

This article also includes thoughts on the guilt we often feel as sex workers, when we do get money out of a whale client, and some reassurances on the morality of this kind of practice.

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