Elizabeth G rolls off her newest lover and lets out a contented sigh.
She describes herself as a ‘very sexual person’ and nothing pleases her more than an afternoon of pleasure – and what makes it even more wonderful for Elizabeth is that she gets paid for it.
She started giving happy ending massages while traveling in Sydney[/caption]
He is just a drop in the ocean of clients, ranging from politicians to celebrities and even clergy, that Elizabeth has brought into her home. career of twenty years as a call girl.
The retired sex worker earns £100 a minute for her conquests and says she has lost count of the number of men she has had in bed, but she won’t be ashamed of it.
“I describe myself as the ‘naked feminist,’” says Elizabeth, 41.
“It may be controversial to say and many people will disagree, but sex work is empowering.
“There is nothing empowering about working in an office, getting paid peanuts and struggling to survive while being sexually harassed. In my work I am in charge.”
While Elizabeth may be the epitome of sexual freedom, she says she had a sheltered, conservative start in life.
Speaking as part of Life Stories, Fabulous’ YouTube series that shares the extraordinary lives of ordinary people, she explains: “I grew up on my family’s farm in Bedfordshire.
“It was quite a secluded rural upbringing and sex wasn’t something that was ever talked about.
“In my teenage years my only interest was working on my father’s farm – he instilled a strong work ethic in me from an early age.
“This was around the time I first became interested in boys and my fascination only grew as I got older.”
Elizabeth entered the sex industry at age 22 as a bankrupt university business graduate during a gap year in Australia.
“I didn’t want to go into the corporate world right away,” she explains.
“I found myself short on cash and about to take a trip up the East Coast, and I needed some money to do some traveling.
“While traveling I came across the opportunity to work in an erotic massage parlour. I was always curious about the sex industry and when this opportunity arose, I took it.”
Elizabeth earned £1,600 a week doing nude massages with a ‘happy ending’ at a Sydney salon.
“I didn’t provide a full service, which was intercourse, that wasn’t in the job description,” she says.
“Although sometimes if I was attracted to a client I would have sex with them.
“It wasn’t an expectation, maybe I just got caught up in the moment.
She has bedded politicians, celebrities and even members of the clergy[/caption]
“It felt so powerful to me, and even more so to have this huge wad of money in my hands.”
In 2012, Elizabeth, aged 29, returned to Britain to complete her masters degree in acting and it was then that she began to establish herself as a high-end escort.
“I needed the money to pay my tuition and decided to upgrade from erotic massage to a full-service escort agency,” she says.
Working primarily with agencies that put her in touch with clients, Elizabeth worked her way up from a cheaper agency on the outskirts of London to the luxury areas of Mayfair, Kensington and Chelsea.
Elizabeth built up an impressive clientele that would earn her up to £3,000 a day from sex work, earning her a total of £1 million in 20 years of work.
But despite her lucrative career, she says she was careful about wasting money.
“It is a very unpredictable sector,” she admits.
“One week you can make thousands of euros and the next week it’s like tumbleweed.
“I had to learn to really put my finances away in good times, because I learned to understand that there would also be a quiet period.”
However, at the height of her career, Elizabeth had a six-month waiting list for her services thanks to her growing clientele.
And when it came to customers, there was no set type.
“Everyone pays for sex,” she says.
“I have met doctors, lawyers, creatives, traders, even priests and preachers have come to see me – they were very sweet customers.
“Some were married, which didn’t really bother me at the end of the day I was providing a service and I think it’s wrong to pin that on sex workers and blame sex workers for someone else’s infidelity.
“If it hadn’t been me, it would have been someone else.”
And the requests Elizabeth received were as varied as her customer base.
I had a number of clients who wanted to do an aunt and cousin role play, which was quite common
Elizabeth G
“One event that really sticks out in my mind happened just after Brexit,” she says.
“A customer came to me wearing a blue T-shirt with the text Keep Calm and Vote Conservative on it.
“Another one wanted me to pretend I was pregnant and that was pretty much the bulk of the booking.
“He kept rubbing my belly and saying we were going to have a beautiful baby together.”
And role-playing was a recurring theme.
“I had a number of clients who wanted to do an aunt and cousin role play, which was quite common,” says Elizabeth.
LAWS AROUND SELLING SEX IN THE UK
Prostitution itself is legal in England and Wales.
But public solicitation, crime prevention, pimping and owning or managing a brothel are all crimes.
Some MPs want brothels to be decriminalized as they believe the current law could discourage prostitutes from working together in groups – which is generally safer for them.
For example, in Sweden, buying sex is a criminal act, but selling it is not.
It is not a crime to sell sex in a brothel unless the employee is involved in the management of the business.
“I was also often asked to pose as their best friend’s girlfriend.”
Although Elizabeth was open to some of her strange requests, she admits that she set more boundaries as she got older.
“I never offered a porn star experience,” she says, “only a girlfriend experience.
“That is something that is more natural and sensual than something extreme.
“Many bookings were not actually about sex, which might surprise a lot of people.
“Many just wanted to be listened to or held, and I suppose in that sense what I did became a kind of therapy.”
Offering the girlfriend experience meant that the boundaries were sometimes blurred when it came to her relationships with customers.
Elizabeth, who has written a book called Unashamed: Why Do People Pay For Sex?, says dating clients is the only negative thing she can remember from her two decades in the industry.
“Dating a client was appealing because I didn’t have to worry about telling a potential partner about my job and then dealing with abuse or shame,” she says.
“Every time it ended in disaster, because I noticed that they were going to book someone else behind my back, otherwise it just wouldn’t work.”
Elizabeth is proud of her job as a sex worker, but says not everyone saw her success as something to be proud of.
“I’ve definitely lost friendships because of my work,” she says.
“There will be people who judge. But I think the people who judge, the ashamed, are part of the problem of the dangers of the sex industry.
The only risky encounter I had was with a group of drug dealers who had machetes in their room
Elizabeth G
“Because they push us into those corners, into those shadows and pretend we don’t exist. I think that is where a large part of the danger lies.”
Elizabeth says she has only experienced one potentially dangerous moment in her 20 years as a call girl.
“The only high-risk encounter I had was with a group of drug dealers who had machetes in their room,” she recalls.
“They didn’t threaten me and I focused on staying calm during the booking.”
Elizabeth took time out of her sex work last year and admitted she felt her career in the industry had ‘run its course’ and she now works in property development.
She does not drink and says she is looking forward to a ‘quieter’ life.
But while Elizabeth may have left her career as a call girl behind, she hopes the industry will continue to thrive.
“It’s the oldest profession in the world and it’s not going anywhere,” she says.
“As long as there are people, there will always be sex work, it is an industry that will continue to exist.
“It’s time we accept sex workers and understand that they are actually fundamental to society and actually help many people.
“People who are lonely or struggling with their mental health and often just need someone to talk to.”
The landscape of sex work has changed dramatically in recent years, and platforms like OnlyFans allow sex workers to cater to their clients’ needs remotely.
This means there is an increased demand for more ‘extreme’ online content to compete with the growing market.
The stories of creators such as Bonnie Blue and Lily Philips have gained popularity after both competed to have sex with as many men as possible in the shortest time possible.
On Monday, Bonnie, 25, claimed she had broken the world record for having sex with the most men in a day – after “1,057 beds in 12 hours”.
And Lily Philips, 23, bedded 101 men in just one day – and is now on a mission to follow in Bonnie’s footsteps and have sex with 1,000 people in 24 hours.
For Elizabeth, the stunts make her feel “conflicted.”
“I will always support sex workers,” she says.
“Terms like ‘barely legal’ make me feel conflicted, but as long as everything is consensual and these girls are happy, then that’s what matters.”
Elizabeth is campaigning to change the Equality Act 2010 to include professions, such as those in the sex industry, as protected characteristics. You can sign her petition here.
Elizabeth says she is looking forward to enjoying a quieter side of life[/caption]
