Inside The World Of Hipster Hookers

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I meet my madam for the first time at a vegan restaurant in New York's East Village. Heather, a friend who has worked for her for more than a year, is the connection. She has told the madam that I am researching a story about the history of prostitution in New York City. And that is true--but my involvement in the subject matter seems to be getting more complicated by the day. I can feel myself getting drawn deeper and deeper into Heather's world.

Is that a bad thing? I look at Heather, a 28-year-old who has a coveted job in fashion media, in her slinky black dress and silver Cartier bracelet. She looks happy, confident, prosperous. The madam does too. She is in her mid-thirties, tall and lanky. She's wearing black leggings and motorcycle boots and has a vintage Gucci purse looped over her arm. If we met at a party I would peg her as an affluent Ivy League-educated scenester with a media job--and I'd be right. When she isn't hooking up hot young professional women with lonely (or just horny) rich guys, she works as a consultant for a major news organization. And that MBA from a university whose very name makes peoples' hearts beat a little bit faster no doubt comes in handy when trying to determine the maximum hourly market value of a romp in the sack.

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Comments

[mamacat]

Prostitution is a word and a subject that evokes strong emotions. I think that the author is not referring to sex slaves, which everyone but Russian mobsters can agree to condemn.

I believe that it is a fact that there have been prostitutes for thousands of years. On cable TV, they talk about the prostitution dens found in Pompeii, and the prostitutes of ancient Egypt, Greece, and the French Court. When I was in Paris, it was a common sight late at night to see hookers meeting their johns. To be frank, they did not look miserable, but I only saw a few.

I have known women who agreed to be supported by men, or even used by men, for money. All of the ones that I knew chose to do it, and were not forced to, although one might argue that they were "forced" by circumstances. I even knew one very attractive physical education major in college who allowed a much older and richer man to provide an apartment for her. I think it was not all of that unusual. If college education were paid for by the state, like it is in most democracies, that particular form of prostitution would be rarer.

I think prostitution is more common than we like to admit. Sometimes it may not fit the legal definition of "hooking," but usually rich older men would not be able to hook up with much younger attractive women without the lure of money.

[PhillyQuaker]

The girl should wear stockings with those heels. She has scabs on the back of her heel.

[MemphisBuffalo]

No such thing as a happy hooker.

[blowhard]

another english major concocting a bs story to make a name.

[Jamesdean]

this is a work of fiction and the writer should be really really ashamed of passing it of as real. no wonder our media has lost all credibility.

[tbone99]

Hope these girls are putting some money away... good thing they keep their day jobs
Someday they may need a resume...

Biggest drawback-once you've become a hardcore capitalist , its hard not to see everyone in dollars and cents.

[estevancarlos]

There's a few in the L.A. area around los feliz and downtown..­. not that I would know.

[Fudgefase]

Bollocks. Anyone with half an imagination could have written it. No real names, no way of backing anything up. And didn't do the deed. Total b****. If it was that cool, why didn't she examine why she didn't 'do it'? Maybe it wasn't such a fun way to spend the night after all???

[MajorKong]

I've often wondered why it's illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away.

[Destin]

It goes back to that 60's heydey of free love and free drugs. Once capitalists figured out they could make money off both, they both became extremely big business.

I agree, nobody should have to pay for either, it should be given away, freely. Maybe crime, abuse and the slave trade would die out.

[Economike]

You need a spanking, oh wait I can't afford it, never mind.

[Paris68]

I'm calling BS on this story. Are Radar's fact checkers on vacation?

[RobinSeattle]

Each to his or her own and whatever kind of sexual bargains two people strike between each other even if this story is mere titillating fiction, are their business, but men who pay a couple of grand (!!!) for nookie are bloody pathetic. Part of the high I get from sex is that my partner is also into it for the sake of being with me both physically and emotionally and not as some commercial transaction.

In any event, this should all be completely legal even if I will never avail myself of that service.

[HamletsMill]

This is pure fiction. I would give it a C+, B- in a creative writing class.

[missviv]

"I don't want to encourage young women to become prostitutes," she says. "But they should know that being objectified is not all that bad."
I really hope so, otherwise the comment above taken from the article is enough to make me want to throw up.

[chendri887]

If conservatives (or liberals, for that matter) wanted to make the issue of prostitution be way less of an issue, all they would have to do is filter a little fluoxetine or paroxetine into the drinking water. SSRIs lower libido substantially. For those prone to sexual acting out and addictions, this might not be such a bad thing, despite its obvious moral flaws. Oddly, it might actually lead to a more stable functional society in the long term. Maybe Brave New World is not such a bad thing after all, and Huxley had it all backwards about the way new psychoactive drugs would affect the sex thing.

[Economike]

Yeah and women still get pregnant when there on the pill.

[Destin]

I've taken SSRI's in the past, I must be the exception to the rule as I was still as horny after as before. And could still get a stiffie with ease. And I'm well into middle age. I'm hoping to be still getting it up at 90+ even if I am doing nothing but blowing powder out the end.

[Destin]

By the way, I can agree somewhat that SSRI's can make your libido lower. But in my previous post, I was merely pointing out that it doesn't stop it completely. Mostly SSRI's make you feel like a zombie and you don't care if you live or die at that point, which is why so many people who take them, commit suicide. I was very close to doing that one time after I was given some as a way to deal with my health problems, I started getting all weird and seeing things like the garbage disposal as an enemy. SSRI's are VERY BAD for your health and mental state, because they unnaturally alter how your body works. It does not, as doctors claim, mess with your body chemistry. That's a cover story, because the fact is, the meds turn off things in your brain, modifying how your brain receptors work. Has nothing to do with altering chemical content, except that by shutting stuff down, you end up with an excess of a certain chemical in your body, Serotonin.

My advice, people should take serotonin supplements rather than SSRI's, they won't kill you at least.

[chendri887]

Well, I'm on fluoxetine now. I have a really bad anxiety disorder. I've tried every natural thing in the book and antidepressants are the only thing that helped me. I'm very health-oriented, very anti-pharm­aceutical. However, drinking bottles and bottles of kava, 5-htp, St. John's, tryptophan, fish oil, and anything else I got in my local health food store just never does it for me. I hope and pray for better understanding of mental health/brain issues in the future, but have to go with what medicine has at the moment, despite the risks, I guess.

By the way, I was just joking about the SSRI thing above. It is interesting that they raised your libido. For me, they always lower it, which is not always a bad thing.

Do you have a serotonin supplement that works for you? Sorry about your SSRI experience. Sounds horrible.

[brooklyncitizen]

Too disturbing if any of it is true.
What's going on with young women?