England's EBay for Sex

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"...a new British website is helping people to become part-time prostitutes.

Across Britain and Ireland plenty of people are willing to pay for sex -- and plenty more are willing to provide it, but until now it has largely been the domain of professional sex workers.
Melissa is a 20-year-old full-time student who finds part-time sex work through a U.K. website.

Britain's AdultWork website is plugging into the growing niche industry of sex-work dilettantes, people who spend a few hours a week in front of a camera, or in bed with a client, to augment their income -- or maybe even just because they like it.
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Paid-for sex is a popular pastime in the United Kingdom. Recently published research in the Lancet medical journal found that one in 23 British men had paid for sex in the past five years, and there are about 80,000 sex workers in the United Kingdom.

One of AdultWork's part-time escorts is Melissa from Belfast. Melissa is an attractive, intelligent and well-read 20-year-old. A full-time student of communications, she is internet- and media-savvy -- a far cry from the clich\ufffdd call girl.

"I think what I do is very different to prostitution, well in my head, anyway," she said. "I guess it depends how you codify things -- everyone is a prostitute at some level. We're all willing to whore some aspect of our body or soul for financial or material gains."

For Melissa, escorting is part-time work that provides good money. She insists it's not sordid. "

Post #197,598 by bluke 3/8/05 5:33:15 AM Reply	England's EBay for Sex [link\|http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66800,00.html?tw=wn\|England's EBay for Sex] "...a new British website is helping people to become part-time prostitutes. Across Britain and Ireland plenty of people are willing to pay for sex -- and plenty more are willing to provide it, but until now it has largely been the domain of professional sex workers. Melissa is a 20-year-old full-time student who finds part-time sex work through a U.K. website. Britain's AdultWork website is plugging into the growing niche industry of sex-work dilettantes, people who spend a few hours a week in front of a camera, or in bed with a client, to augment their income -- or maybe even just because they like it. ... Paid-for sex is a popular pastime in the United Kingdom. Recently published research in the Lancet medical journal found that one in 23 British men had paid for sex in the past five years, and there are about 80,000 sex workers in the United Kingdom. One of AdultWork's part-time escorts is Melissa from Belfast. Melissa is an attractive, intelligent and well-read 20-year-old. A full-time student of communications, she is internet- and media-savvy -- a far cry from the clich\ufffdd call girl. "I think what I do is very different to prostitution, well in my head, anyway," she said. "I guess it depends how you codify things -- everyone is a prostitute at some level. We're all willing to whore some aspect of our body or soul for financial or material gains." For Melissa, escorting is part-time work that provides good money. She insists it's not sordid. "
Post #197,810 by lincoln 3/9/05 1:41:22 PM Reply	Need this in the USA immediately! lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #197,840 by jb4 3/9/05 6:06:58 PM Reply	I propose the first client be... ..a certain resident of a well known Washington address. (Not that Washington...Washington D.C., silly!...) jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #197,844 by inthane-chan 3/9/05 6:31:08 PM Reply	Looking to Monicagate the current admin?
Post #197,872 by Arkadiy 3/9/05 10:58:05 PM Reply	First buyer or first seller? -- And what are we doing when the two most powerful nations on earth -- America and Israel -- stomp on the elementary rights of human beings? -- letter to the editor from W. Ostermeier, Liechtenstein
Post #197,879 by Andrew Grygus 3/9/05 11:30:39 PM Reply	Already been on the market for decades . . . . . with plenty of takers, so it'd have to be as a buyer to be anything new. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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