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Sex Worker Confessions: Angela St. Lawrence Describe your work & services.
I am a self-employed PSO (phone sex operator) providing what I refer to as "esoteric depravity for the aficionado," specializing in Erotic Fetish, Female Domination and Sensual Debauchery.
How long have you been doing this work?
Give or take a few months, a total of eight years. (I worked as a PSO off and on through two of my four years of college, then had a mainstream corporate job for two years. I left that company in early 2003 to start my own one-woman phone sex business.
Describe, as best as you can, your type of clientele in terms of what you see as their need for sex services. (Not just the 'need to get off' but why they hire help; what they are missing in their lives.)
The majority of my client are smart, sophisticated and successful. I sincerely believe that IQ is directly related to the brain work that goes into a sexual encounter--the smarter you are, the more you need when it comes to the foreplay, the back story, the details, the mind-fuck. So my guys aren't really missing a lot in their lives. It's just that usually they want some serious kink to get off on. Many are either happily married or in committed relationships and have fulfilling, mostly vanilla, sex lives.
Do you try to help with those needs, even if the client hasn't specifically asked or even acknowledged this need? If so, how? If not, why not?
Well, I do have a co-dependent streak in me, so, of course, I've been known to give advice or at least attempt to save the day now and again. But it's not something I want to do, nor see as part of "my job." Many girls have various "characters" they present themselves as, moving from call to call as if on an assembly line. It's quite a legitimate strategy, with each character "specializing" in a particular kink or fetish.
I've chosen to more or less create a "brand name" with Angela St. Lawrence and offer a high-end, specialty service, building repeat business. Because my callers are regulars and call often, a quasi-friendship often develops, which lends itself to more personal interactions on occasion. So, yes, sometimes there is a more or less a cry for help; and when that happens, I try to do what I can.
If you have specific example, please tell us about it.
When I was working for the service I mentioned, I once had a caller with a drug problem threatening suicide. I took it upon myself to call information in his area and provided him with numbers for a variety of help lines and Narcotics Anonymous.
Another time, the service asked me to take a call from a regular on Thanksgiving day. When I took the call, it was to find out that his mother had died that morning. It broke my heart that the only person he had to call was me, his PSO. I refused to be paid for that call and my manager agreed not to charge him, even though I talked with him for two hours.
About the interviewer: Secondhand Rose is a former escort who became a writer and then, when she discovered she missed sex work, returned to sex work as a phone companion and conversationalist.
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