From the Guardian’s piece on Sunday about the outing of Brooke Magnanti, aka Belle du Jour, the PhD who anonymously wrote the Diary of a London Call Girl blog (which was turned into a British TV show):
Among sex workers themselves there was little surprise that a well-educated woman like Magnanti had got into prostitution. “Loads of people who work in the sex industry are academics – education is a very expensive habit,” said Catherine Stephens, an activist for the International Union of Sex Workers who has been a sex worker herself for 10 years.
“At a brothel I worked in, I think I was the only one not doing a PhD.”
Dr. Magnanti now works as a children’s cancer scientist at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health based at Bristol’s St. Michael’s Hospital.
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