Thursday, January 29, 2009

Street-girls, escorts and cocaine

I have been criticised by some for suggesting that large numbers of prostitutes who are not street-girls take drugs. I need to clarify what it is that I have said and explain why I think it is so.

My guess is that half of all prostitutes who are not street-girls, even the higher-class escorts, take cocaine on a regular basis. It is my belief that no matter which form of prostitution a man may indulge in, the money he pays is likely to be spent in part on cocaine.

Cocaine use is so common in our society now, and is becoming more common. It is accepted in some circles, especially among people who can earn large amounts of money.

Women who take up prostitution have crossed a line that most women would not wish to cross. A woman who is willing to cross that line would be more willing to also cross the line of trying drugs. Trying a drug like cocaine is an easier step to take than trying prostitution, more women have taken it, and more middle-class women.

The sort of men who pay prostitutes are more likely to take cocaine. The sort of men who associate with prostitutes socially are more likely to take cocaine. This will influence many women who take up prostitution.

Any man who pays prostitutes and who thinks that his money will not be spent on drugs is fooling himself. Any woman who takes cocaine and looks at a street girl and thinks "That could never happen to me" is fooling herself. Street-girls in my experience do not become street-girls because they are forced into it by pimps, or been forced onto drugs, or because they have recently emerged from a childhood in care.

They have become street-girls because they have been willing to cross lines, to transgress boundaries. This is because they are fun-loving and don't think that it can happen to them. They don't think. In some cases they will have had some kind of psychological disturbance and have always had a chaotic lifestyle. In most cases that will not be true. It is in the nature of drug addiction that people loose control.

Cocaine by itself is enough of a problem. People who take it think that they can control how much they take and that they will not go on to take crack cocaine, crystal meth or heroin. In most cases people can control it, but you can never tell if it will be you who ends up on the streets.

You may think that it is hypocritical of me to say this when I give money to street girls. I'm not criticising people, I just want people to be clear about what it is that they are doing. If two or three times a year I give a tenner to a street-girl to feel her tits or something else I don't feel that I should be criticised by other punters or by escorts who feel that they are better than me.

I am aware that money paid for cocaine and crack cocaine ends up in the hands of criminals who plant land mines that kill and maim innocent people in South America. Are you? What I have been looking for for a long time is an unmarried mum on a council estate in south London who needs the money to pay rent and bills and Xmas presents for her kids. I would be one of her regular clients and I would be more confident than nearly all punters that my money was not going on drugs. I would stop seeing street-girls and I would stop going to Soho too.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a dickhead, I know quite a few prostitutes and to my knowledge none of them use cocaine or any sort of illegal drug. Their money is earned the hard way and too precious to waste on drugs. Why not go and look at the medical profession, it's well known to be full of drug dependent people or isn't that as sexy as writing about prostitutes?

D.

BBWC said...

This is the biggest pile of shite I've ever read. I'm a prostitute, I don't work the streets, I've never touched drugs in my life and I don't know anyone who uses them. I have friends in the game, and a logn list of clients, and in all the time I've worked I only ONCE had a booking with a guy who I suspected was high on something.
I'm frankly amazed that you would speak with such confidence on a subject which you plainly know very little about, and would turn your opinions and conjecture into text presented as fact. Your arrogance and idiocy are beyond belief.

Fred said...

This is a total load of cobblers. The writer is either trying to be controversial, trying to justify a habit of her own, or just plain stupid.

Before writing blogs like this, love, try getting a few facts. You know - facts? Things which actually are as opposed to things you imagine.

James said...

Ill plead guilty to knowing, er lots and lots of escorts, I know a few punters too, your perception of cocaine may be true of your world, but its far removed from mine.
I guess the truth would be somewhere in between.

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Anonymous said...

Most prostitutes are on drugs.....why do you think they sell themselves? The ones that start just to pay off debts etc often turn to drugs to help them do what they do....and so its a catch 22 situation. The single mums whose kids arent in care are sometimes drug-free, as are the high class call girls. Kairos is an organisation working with street girls, they agree that 99% of street girls are on drugs. These gorls arent victims they know damn well what theyre doing and they love the attention.

Bête de Nuit said...

Most prostitutes are not street girls or addicts. That's a myth. The evidence is that 10% to 15% of prostitutes are street girls. When I went to Argyle Square in the 80s and Tooting Bec Common in the 00s, many of the women soliciting on the street were not addicts, but because of police attention the non-addicts stopped doing it. So it's easy to believe that 99% of street girls now are addicts.

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