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Known as “Yelp for Escorts,” Arizona-based ECCIE.net has provided a highly unusual forum since 2009—just like Yelp allows people to review restaurants and Amazon lets you review books, ECCIE  permits those who use the services of sex workers to describe…

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“I appreciated that they saw me as human, rather than the majority of my male clients who saw me as a blowjob machine.”

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“If I’m being brutally honest, the hottest women I’ve ever f*cked have been sex workers. I would never be able to f*ck women who are ridiculously hot unless they were prostitutes.”

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Stripping and escorting have helped inspire and sustain my writing, but they’ve also exposed me to genuinely heartbreaking things.

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When not portraying them as misguided prudes who need an open ear, the media portrays johns as freaks who engage in risky or fetishistic sex to which they can’t subject their wholesome wives. There has to be a legitimate reason to purchase sex, right?

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“I was from a small town and really sheltered, but had lost both of my parents and my foster family kicked me out at 17. I stole some of her shit, pawned it and made my way to a greyhound bus that took me to a big-ish city.”

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I’ve winced at some of what my hired sex partners have said to me.

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“Woah… So, my dad could have came here and cheated on my mom?” I say.

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Bob told me the job was actually for private lap dancing parties; he liked my photos and thought I was a perfect candidate.

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I was engaged for a grand total of a month and a half, when I was pretty and skinny and seventeen, as arranged by my parents who wanted nothing but the best for me.