Whores who tell all

[jossophie]

The best way to sell your sex work memoir is to name a famous client and this becomes almost morally appropriate when that client is the writer of a television series wherein the only call girl character is belittled and told "you'd do anything for money". Thus I give you the story of Dimitra Ekmektsis and her book "Confessions of a High-Priced

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Re: A whore is a whore is a whore - but not immoral!

[jossophie]

Yep well I think any sort of 'kiss and tell' is bad form. You'll note I said 'almost' moral - but that's only because I hate media power-brokers who don't use their power responsibly. I'm also being very sarcastic in general in this post, partly because I have very ambivalent views about these sorts of books.

It's not hard to see where Dimitra is coming from when you see her in interview (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7273230904848502524.) She's pissed off with this guy because he fobbed her off when she tried to stretch the relationship by asking him to help her break into the 'music production' business. Later when she saw the call girl character she says was inspired by her she phoned him to ask for a credit. He refused so she decided to fuck him over. Sour grapes? probably - I think she's jealous of his success. But it also seems like she was genuinely hurt (maybe she's a good actress).

I think what you say about the implications this stuff has for workers trying to get personal details from clients is a good point, and one I hadn't really thought about.

Either way, you only have to turn the scenario around to decide the moral correctness of this behaviour. A nobody escort sees a regular for a couple of years and then she goes on to become famous, we'd all be pretty pissed off if suddenly he was making a name out of her past and his connection to it. Hmmm, sounds like a story I heard about Rosanne, come to think of it. It's mercenary, it's low.