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Dr Brooke Magnanti, student of informatics, epidemiology and forensic science chose to be a sex worker to make money for school. Her blogs as Belle De Jour, describing her sexual encounters were complied into books, broadcasted  as TV shows, and made her an anonymous and mysterious celebrity. 

"The sanitisation of prostitution goes on, coercing us into a room where we will accept anything. This weekend "Belle de Jour", the middle-class prostitute (and bestselling author and inspiration for the TV drama Secret Diary of a Call Girl) revealed her true identity. Her name is Dr Brooke Magnanti and she announced that she had enjoyed herself. "What I write about is something every depiction of prostitution in this country in recent years has not been permitted to say," she has said. "There will be no comeuppance."

You may not realise that Dr Magnanti is an exception, even as she performs her role as glamorised outreach worker for prostitution. She took the job because she ran out of money as she was finishing her PhD; she is a now a research scientist. Hers was an extraordinary experience of prostitution; she was lucky, because prostitution ordinarily is, simply put, a condition that kills women."

Its quite a fascinating story but at the same time it disgusts me how overrated sex has become in our society. If the same girl had worked at the bar or a coffee shop to make money, it would be a trite. she spread her legs for an hour to make more money than all the others who work relentlessly, and she becomes a celebrity.  

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/17/belle-de-jour-tanya-gold




 


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