Marie Claire Australia

THE WOMEN WHO PAY FOR SEX

SOPHIA, 46, DOCTOR

“I just wanted someone to cuddle me and stroke my hair”

If you had said to me as a young woman that I’d enter into a paid sexual relationship, I would have said, “No way, not in a million years.” Before I made this decision, I had never had sex with someone I wasn’t engaged or married to – two men in total. My view is that sex and relationships are sacred.

I’m from a conservative background. I was raised in a happy, stable family by parents who are still married, and was studious rather than rebellious, training as a doctor and completing five degrees. The path that led me to hiring Jake Ryan (JR) was my loveless and abusive marriage.

I married another doctor, a psychiatrist. I didn’t realise that once a woman has children she is in an incredibly vulnerable position. As soon as my beautiful son was born, the birthday gifts, nice trips away – even the basic warmth and kindness – all just disappeared.

My husband started taking all my earnings and replaced them with

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