Economic crisis forces girl in to selling sex
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:10 pm
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A SACKED Woolworths shop girl has had to swap the pick ’n’ mix counter for turning tricks as a VICE GIRL in the struggle to make ends meet.
As the credit crunch grips Britain and more employers go to the wall cash-strapped Zara insists she had no other choice but going on the game.
The pretty 22-year-old said last night: “I’m in so much debt. There are no jobs around and it is the only way I could see of coping. But I never thought I’d end up doing this . . . ”
Zara sells her services over the internet on an escort website. Advertising herself as “Ex-Woolies Girl” she began by offering intimate massage and oral sex for £100 an hour.
“From that point it’s not that much of a bigger step to offer more,” she confessed. “And now I do full sex for an extra £50. Admittedly it’s not my dream job. But I just think about how much money I owed, and it’s quick money. Quick, but not easy.”
Shocked
Naively, Zara is shocked at the bizarre sexual requests men bombard her with in their emails.
“Some people have really weird fetishes,” she said. “They want allsorts.”
Until a month ago Zara was just about coping financially, getting by on the minimum wage of £5.73 she earned shelf-stacking and manning the till at her local Woolies in a Sussex town.
“It wasn’t glamorous,” she said. “Days were long and you were often on your feet the whole time. But it was a job and I was earning a living.”
Then just before Christmas Zara was crushed to learn she was being made redundant as the company crashed throwing 27,000 out of work.
“There were a lot of tears when it was announced.“ she said. “Some people had been working there for years. As the doors closed for the last time it was a sad moment. I just thought, ‘Well what now?’
“I was so scared. I’d been there eight months and was barely getting by as it was. Then I looked around the town where I live and saw shop after shop closing. It’s dying.
“But the problem is I owe around £2,000. It’s from credit cards, general household and telephone bills.
Sex
“I know it might not sound like that much to a lot of people, but when you haven’t got it, or any way of getting it, it may as well be a million—and you start thinking about doing things you’d never normally consider.”
In desperation Zara started looking at escort websites. In her innocence she was originally heartened by agency promises that she wouldn’t have to have sex. But the grim reality of her new trade soon kicked in.
The first time Zara went to meet a client she spent the two-hour journey in a petrified state constantly thinking about what lay ahead.
And the only way she could go through with it was by being drunk.
“I had to have a few drinks,” she said. “Even then I was still really scared and nervous.”
Afterwards, on the way home to her unsuspecting and jobless boyfriend, tears flowed. “I felt awful,” she confessed. “But I just had to keep thinking of the money and clearing the bills.”
Zara’s unexpected new profession in recession-hit Britain is a far cry from the job she really yearns for.
“All I’ve ever wanted to do is become a counsellor and help people,“ she said. “I wanted to do an access course that could lead to university last year, but I just couldn’t afford it.
“There’s another course starting September that I’d love to do, but God knows if I’ll be able to pay for it.”
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/14 ... s-sex.html
A SACKED Woolworths shop girl has had to swap the pick ’n’ mix counter for turning tricks as a VICE GIRL in the struggle to make ends meet.
As the credit crunch grips Britain and more employers go to the wall cash-strapped Zara insists she had no other choice but going on the game.
The pretty 22-year-old said last night: “I’m in so much debt. There are no jobs around and it is the only way I could see of coping. But I never thought I’d end up doing this . . . ”
Zara sells her services over the internet on an escort website. Advertising herself as “Ex-Woolies Girl” she began by offering intimate massage and oral sex for £100 an hour.
“From that point it’s not that much of a bigger step to offer more,” she confessed. “And now I do full sex for an extra £50. Admittedly it’s not my dream job. But I just think about how much money I owed, and it’s quick money. Quick, but not easy.”
Shocked
Naively, Zara is shocked at the bizarre sexual requests men bombard her with in their emails.
“Some people have really weird fetishes,” she said. “They want allsorts.”
Until a month ago Zara was just about coping financially, getting by on the minimum wage of £5.73 she earned shelf-stacking and manning the till at her local Woolies in a Sussex town.
“It wasn’t glamorous,” she said. “Days were long and you were often on your feet the whole time. But it was a job and I was earning a living.”
Then just before Christmas Zara was crushed to learn she was being made redundant as the company crashed throwing 27,000 out of work.
“There were a lot of tears when it was announced.“ she said. “Some people had been working there for years. As the doors closed for the last time it was a sad moment. I just thought, ‘Well what now?’
“I was so scared. I’d been there eight months and was barely getting by as it was. Then I looked around the town where I live and saw shop after shop closing. It’s dying.
“But the problem is I owe around £2,000. It’s from credit cards, general household and telephone bills.
Sex
“I know it might not sound like that much to a lot of people, but when you haven’t got it, or any way of getting it, it may as well be a million—and you start thinking about doing things you’d never normally consider.”
In desperation Zara started looking at escort websites. In her innocence she was originally heartened by agency promises that she wouldn’t have to have sex. But the grim reality of her new trade soon kicked in.
The first time Zara went to meet a client she spent the two-hour journey in a petrified state constantly thinking about what lay ahead.
And the only way she could go through with it was by being drunk.
“I had to have a few drinks,” she said. “Even then I was still really scared and nervous.”
Afterwards, on the way home to her unsuspecting and jobless boyfriend, tears flowed. “I felt awful,” she confessed. “But I just had to keep thinking of the money and clearing the bills.”
Zara’s unexpected new profession in recession-hit Britain is a far cry from the job she really yearns for.
“All I’ve ever wanted to do is become a counsellor and help people,“ she said. “I wanted to do an access course that could lead to university last year, but I just couldn’t afford it.
“There’s another course starting September that I’d love to do, but God knows if I’ll be able to pay for it.”
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