Nov 27, 2009
Scientist misses call girl life
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'I think it is like very many other jobs, you do turn on an aspect of your personality so it isn't that Belle wasn't me but Belle is the more confident part of me.'
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'It wasn't so much that I was ashamed myself, but I was afraid of other people's reactions. You do really never know, until you go through something like that, how people are going to react to that situation.'
'I don't regret it. It sounds a strange thing. Obviously there have been drawbacks.' 'My experiences were very lucky. And I managed to get out of it before it became the bulk of my lifestyle.'
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LONDON - A BRITISH scientist who wrote a racy blog and a best-selling book about being a prostitute has admitted she misses some parts of her old job as a call girl.
Brooke Magnanti, who works for The Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, revealed herself this month as the person behind the nom de plume Belle de Jour - the title of a famous 1960s French film starring Catherine Deneuve.
Dr Magnanti said she missed the job satisfaction from prostitution.
'I miss the moment when you walk into a hotel and you instantly click on and recognise where you are going and the feeling of 'I am about to do a job - I'm about to do it well',' Dr Magnanti said in an interview on 'The Show Book' broadcast late Thursday on Sky Arts 1 television.
Short of money, she turned to prostitution while completing the thesis for her doctorate. She joined an agency and began having sex for 300 pounds (S$700) a session. Dr Magnanti kept a weblog of her antics in 2003-2004, which were turned into a best-selling book, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl.
Her memoirs were adapted into a hit 16-episode television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, which starred actress Billie Piper and was screened in countries around the world. -- AFP
Scientist misses call girl life
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'I think it is like very many other jobs, you do turn on an aspect of your personality so it isn't that Belle wasn't me but Belle is the more confident part of me.'
<!--end background story--><!--background story, collapse if none-->ON HER EXPERIENCES...
'It wasn't so much that I was ashamed myself, but I was afraid of other people's reactions. You do really never know, until you go through something like that, how people are going to react to that situation.'
'I don't regret it. It sounds a strange thing. Obviously there have been drawbacks.' 'My experiences were very lucky. And I managed to get out of it before it became the bulk of my lifestyle.'
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LONDON - A BRITISH scientist who wrote a racy blog and a best-selling book about being a prostitute has admitted she misses some parts of her old job as a call girl.
Brooke Magnanti, who works for The Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, revealed herself this month as the person behind the nom de plume Belle de Jour - the title of a famous 1960s French film starring Catherine Deneuve.
Dr Magnanti said she missed the job satisfaction from prostitution.
'I miss the moment when you walk into a hotel and you instantly click on and recognise where you are going and the feeling of 'I am about to do a job - I'm about to do it well',' Dr Magnanti said in an interview on 'The Show Book' broadcast late Thursday on Sky Arts 1 television.
Short of money, she turned to prostitution while completing the thesis for her doctorate. She joined an agency and began having sex for 300 pounds (S$700) a session. Dr Magnanti kept a weblog of her antics in 2003-2004, which were turned into a best-selling book, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl.
Her memoirs were adapted into a hit 16-episode television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, which starred actress Billie Piper and was screened in countries around the world. -- AFP
