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You know, it's interesting, I was actually friends with a girl in college who did this, and she somewhat changed my attitude towards it. She was quite simply one of the most beautiful women I've ever had the pleasure to meet, and not in a made-up, silicone-injected, "look at me" way, I mean she was one of those rare women with a classic natural beauty that turned men's heads whenever she walked through the room. She was highly intelligent (graduated top of her class in HS, and in the top 5% of her graduating class in college), from a good but not wealthy family, and she had a classy and yet down to earth attitude about her. To make a long story short, she was the kind of woman every man wants to marry.

She was also a prostitute, or as she jokingly termed herself: "an expensive date". She told me once that she started simply to pay for college, but continued because she enjoyed it. Why did she enjoy it? Because she wasn't any stand on the streetcorner to turn a trick hooker...she saw the world with her clients. Her clients tended to be rich single men looking for "company" while travelling or vacationing. She once spent two weeks cruising the Med with a Greek billionaire on his yacht, she had been to Tahiti, Bali, Hawaii, Australia, Japan, and most of Europe with clients, and she enjoyed every minute of it. Rich clients like that weren't looking for sex (though they often [but not always] got it), they were more often looking for companionship, someone to hang out with on the beach, go to dinner with, and just generally enjoy themselves with without worrying about whether she was simply a gold-digger looking to marry him for his money (though also for the record, she did end up marrying some multi-millionaire from Georgia). Sex, to her clients, was simply a side benefit to her presence. And what did she make for enjoying herself and seeing the world? Depending on the client she has made anywhere from $10,000 to $120,000 per day!

She explained it to me this way once: "To most people, the idea that a poor Tennessee farm girl could grow up to date princes and billionaires sounds like a fantasy, something straight out of Cinderella, and it's something that they would encourage. So why is it wrong for these men to be generous with their money afterward? I would do the same thing with any of these men for free." And she meant that last part too. With clients like these, there is never a discussion about payment. They simply invited her on a vacation or date (sometimes it was just dinner), and paid her "for her troubles" or "as a gesture of their appreciation" when they dropped her off. The clients simply gave her what he felt was fair, and they were always generous. To her, it wasn't about turning a trick for a few bucks, it was a chance to mingle with the rich, famous, and powerful, and make a tidy profit in the process.

For the record, I never slept with her, though I probably would have if given the chance (I was in college and she was stunning...what more can I say?).