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So somone other than poor women finally came to the realization that you could get more than dinner and a movie out of sex?

The way some will sleep with anyone with a pulse why not? Might as well get paid for it.

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I met a call girl at a graduation party a few months ago. She seemed to have a pretty good life. She lived in New York, rich guys would pay her to travel with them. She wasn't super beautiful, but attractive and mixed race. Her lifestyle was very tempting to my niece who was looking at being unemployed after graduating with a degree in music.

Instead my niece took up with a 30 year old loser who wants to spend her money and has vague dreams of going to Africa to teach.

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So, you're angry your niece didn't become a hooker Escort?          



 

Twenty-one-year-old Jennifer Thompson (or ‘Juicy Jeni’ as she chooses to style herself) was once a churchgoing teenager who went to a private school. Her father was an oil executive, her mother a PA.

Jennifer’s fellow prostitute (and alleged enthusiastic participant in lesbian scenarios) is 23-year-old Helen Wood — also from a middle-class home. Her mother is a primary school teacher, for heaven’s sake, and her father a university lecturer.

I have no doubt the parents of both girls are asking themselves: ‘What went wrong?’

Of course, no outsider can answer that. But we can look at the world those girls have grown up in, and perhaps find some clues.

As a children’s author, I have found myself in many schools over the past 25 years and noticed one significant change — nowadays, girls of ten and over seem to have grown up far too quickly.

So many aspects of popular culture — from fashion, to pop lyrics and videos, to advertising, through to TV programmes like Big Brother and The X Factor — peddle a combined message of sleaze and greed.

This corrupting influence is very hard to avoid. Once, a little girl might have wanted to be a teacher or a doctor (and of course, many still do), but  now, sadly, she is likely to say she wants to be a model, a pop star or a WAG.

The most frequent answer I get, when I ask little girls what their ambitions are, is: ‘I want to be famous.’

The disturbing truth is that many teenage girls will read the lurid stories about £1,200-a-night sex and think it sounds a very easy way of making a living.

Better than studying; more interesting than a nine-to-five job; even ‘glamorous’.

They do not realise that the line between wannabe WAG and girl-on-the-game is very fine indeed.

Just as bad — many teenage boys will think that what they learn from internet porn is clearly right and all girls are cheap slappers, up for anything if the price is right.

Little by little, the gutter has become the cultural main street — and morality be damned.

How can women have changed so much in the space of less than a century?

On the one hand, you have the noble history of active suffragettes and other brave women who took on the establishment and were punished most severely for merely demanding the right to vote.

You have the women who played a vital role at home and as nurses at the Front in the two World Wars.

You have the women who challenged institutionalised sexism in the workplace — and bequeathed us a world where equality is no longer an aspiration but a reality. We owe them all so much.

By sickeningly depressing contrast, just a few decades later, we have Juicy Jeni and Helen Wood, who have taken that precious inheritance and wiped their hookers’ stilettos all over it.

They are not the only ones, of course. Less than a year ago I wrote about the famous call girl known as Belle de Jour who was revealed to be Dr Brooke Magnanti, a high-powered scientist casually unabashed about her secret life as a hooker.

She boasted of being ‘unbelievably fortunate’ because she enjoyed her horizontal job and had never had a bad experience with a client.

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There's a difference.

Twenty-one-year-old Jennifer Thompson (or ‘Juicy Jeni’ as she chooses to style herself) was once a churchgoing teenager who went to a private school. Her father was an oil executive, her mother a PA.

Jennifer’s fellow prostitute (and alleged enthusiastic participant in lesbian scenarios) is 23-year-old Helen Wood — also from a middle-class home. Her mother is a primary school teacher, for heaven’s sake, and her father a university lecturer.

I have no doubt the parents of both girls are asking themselves: ‘What went wrong?’

Of course, no outsider can answer that. But we can look at the world those girls have grown up in, and perhaps find some clues.

As a children’s author, I have found myself in many schools over the past 25 years and noticed one significant change — nowadays, girls of ten and over seem to have grown up far too quickly.

So many aspects of popular culture — from fashion, to pop lyrics and videos, to advertising, through to TV programmes like Big Brother and The X Factor — peddle a combined message of sleaze and greed.

This corrupting influence is very hard to avoid. Once, a little girl might have wanted to be a teacher or a doctor (and of course, many still do), but  now, sadly, she is likely to say she wants to be a model, a pop star or a WAG.

The most frequent answer I get, when I ask little girls what their ambitions are, is: ‘I want to be famous.’

The disturbing truth is that many teenage girls will read the lurid stories about £1,200-a-night sex and think it sounds a very easy way of making a living.

Better than studying; more interesting than a nine-to-five job; even ‘glamorous’.

They do not realise that the line between wannabe WAG and girl-on-the-game is very fine indeed.

Just as bad — many teenage boys will think that what they learn from internet porn is clearly right and all girls are cheap slappers, up for anything if the price is right.

Little by little, the gutter has become the cultural main street — and morality be damned.

How can women have changed so much in the space of less than a century?

On the one hand, you have the noble history of active suffragettes and other brave women who took on the establishment and were punished most severely for merely demanding the right to vote.

You have the women who played a vital role at home and as nurses at the Front in the two World Wars.

You have the women who challenged institutionalised sexism in the workplace — and bequeathed us a world where equality is no longer an aspiration but a reality. We owe them all so much.

By sickeningly depressing contrast, just a few decades later, we have Juicy Jeni and Helen Wood, who have taken that precious inheritance and wiped their hookers’ stilettos all over it.

They are not the only ones, of course. Less than a year ago I wrote about the famous call girl known as Belle de Jour who was revealed to be Dr Brooke Magnanti, a high-powered scientist casually unabashed about her secret life as a hooker.

She boasted of being ‘unbelievably fortunate’ because she enjoyed her horizontal job and had never had a bad experience with a client.

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Yep. These women have every opportunity given to them and yet it goes back to the popular culture messing them up. It seems to do that to a lot of them even if they don't take up prostitution as a career.

Many here need to question what's happening out there. By all accounts, these women had damn good childhoods.

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I would work at McDonalds for the rest of my life rather than something like that. I can't imagine a worse existence... Other than maybe being Michelle Obama's underpants.