No Shane In her game.
Charlotte Shane, a former sex worker for the 1%, opens up about bedding merchants in her new memoir.
The author’s erotica, “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work,” hits shelves on August 13 and details her raunchy lifestyle of sleeping with elite men in hotels for more than a decade.
Before entering the call girl business, Sean was studying for a postgraduate degree in Women’s Studies – but the amorous academic ultimately decided to devote herself to men and satisfy her insatiable desires.
“I became a sex worker because I suspected and hoped that this would be what it would be: a private, niche celebrity. An alternative version of myself,” she wrote in an excerpt from her memoir published in the Wall Street Journal.
In the book, she reveals how wealthy men circumvent the taboo industry, chatting up women in luxury hotels and exchanging secret code words.
“Euphemisms for illicit behavior help to smudge the conversation,” she writes in her book, “‘Curious’ means sexually aroused, ‘visiting’ or ‘spending time’ means sexual relations, and ‘friend’ means a repeat visitor.”
Sean recalls an interaction with her client Roger, a 54-year-old litigation attorney in Washington, D.C. Although the two had agreed to meet at the Marriott downtown at 9 p.m., Sean unexpectedly arrived 12 hours early, at 9 a.m., wearing “traditional business attire,” a blue custom-made shift dress.
Although she hadn’t deliberately arrived so early, she had deliberately worn clothing that allowed her to enter the hotel, making her feel like she “deserved to be there.”
Roger thought Sean was worth attending and “invited” her to meet again and again. After the third meeting, he began to beg her to attend.
“I have to say, every time I see you, I want to see more of you,” Roger wrote after their third date.
Whenever a session goes well, Shawn sends a thank you note to the client, thanking them for a “great evening,” especially those she’d like to see again.
Sean regularly receives adoring messages from “married men, single men, divorced men, men a few years or decades older than me, men with money and very money, and men living in secret debt.”
After working in the sex work industry for many years, Sean decided to quit because she couldn’t adapt to the changes.
“Today, sex workers, even live workers without OnlyFans accounts, have to advertise like influencers, and to me, that’s too much money, no matter how much,” she wrote in a July 10 “For You” blog post.
Sean acknowledges that marketing has changed since the early 2010s, when profiles included stock images, champagne and an “about me” section listing education and languages.
With other escorts adding accolades to their profiles, this made Sean feel insecure about the services she was offering and questioned whether she could charge as much as other sex workers.
Sean wrote that she was “too afraid of being caught lying to pretend to lie”.
Shawn wrote in a blog post for Written For You that she believes her memoir “will inspire readers to love more thoughtfully and to love better.”