The jig is up. Belle de Jour, the former prostitute behind the popular column "Diary of a London Call Girl" and TV series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" is really British research scientist Dr. Brooke Magnanti, 34. Dr. Magnanti gave the oldest reason for turning to the oldest profession -- to pay for her PhD. She came forward now allegedly out of fear that an ex-boyfriend might out her. Not even her literary agent knew who she really was.
"It was time. I've felt so much guardedness and paranoia about remaining anonymous recently," Dr. Magnanti told The Sunday Times. "... I don't want this massive secret over me anymore."
But let's step back a moment -- Dr. Magnanti's story isn't anything we haven't heard before. Melissa Beech (not her real name), a college senior from a swanky suburb outside Philadelphia, has written about how a sugar daddy is paying for her schooling in The Daily Beast. Until last fall, a student alleging to be a call girl detailed her experiences at the blog Confessions of a College Callgirl. In the summer, a Knoxville, Tenn., media outlet interviewed a 19-year-old using escorting to pay for massage therapy school. (Stifle that laugh.)
The number of students having sex for tuition money has exploded in Europe, and experts believe it will continue to rise due to the rising costs of education. British researchers found this unusual trend in sex work has grown by 50 percent over the past seven years. In early 2008, France's education minister vowed to increase financial support after a freshman's diary and a book of interviews with undergrads exposed their experiences with prostitution.
It makes sense. There are few jobs you can work while going to school full-time that can truly help you pay for an education. (Read the claim by "Freakonomics" authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner that prostitution can get you the most buck for your bang.)
So since we've heard stories like Dr. Magnanti's before, maybe there's still an outcry because society still can't accept a woman using both her sexuality and her smarts. Why can't a smart cookie give up the cookie as a means to an end? Or maybe it's the fact that Dr. Magnanti went really far in her education that irks us. Commenters are hissing that she's somehow less, her degree somehow not as credible, because she paid for it with carnal currency.
The most shocking part of Dr. Magnanti's story may be that she didn't get exposed before now. With her revelation, maybe stereotypes of exactly what kind of woman engages in the sex industry will start to fall away.
And maybe the next time a highly educated woman admits she did the deed to get a degree, we won't judge her so harshly.
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Monday 16 November
By execlenderllc
I've never went to bed with a girl as below average as this one, but I have woke up next to a couple !
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By wangsumansiren
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Tuesday 17 November
By toutesuite
Those girls are probably thinking the same thing about you.
Monday 16 November
By Arthur Low
I think it an appropriate way for college students who wish to, to use prostitution as an effective way for pay for education.
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Tuesday 17 November
By San Diegan
There is an outcry because its raggity. Turning your body into a gas station restroom is just nasty.
Monday 16 November
By Anon
I was approached to do something like this once. I seriously considered it, because my bills seem insurmountable. I can't ask my parents for any more money, and I can't work any more than I do, or I'll flunk out.
The option to get a big wad of cash quickly could come in handy...
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Tuesday 17 November
By whirple
there are other ways to get a big wad ... better ideas will come upon you
Monday 16 November
By Kevin
At least these ladies are getting a higher education out of it. Beats a crack head working the streets.
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Monday 16 November
By kiki
you are right about that!! It sure does beat a crack head out in the streets any day.
Tuesday 17 November
By MyOpinionIs
So let me get this straight: "It sure does beat a crack head out in the streets any day" you say ....... so you make the assumption that this person did not use drugs to be able to do what she did??? How do you know at the time she wasn't a crack head??? Or that one low-life at the moment is better than anotoher??? Meaning, prostitution (for getting PhD) is better than prostitution just to get drug money??? Both are the SAME ACT, SAME GROSSNESS, SAME EVERYTHING AT THE MOMENT OF THEIR PROSTITUTION ESCAPADES. The "reason" for it does NOT matter. Either way, are you saying that someone using their body to get a glamourous career title is OKAY but those who do the same thing but do not end up with a nice career title is NOT? Either way, the female is a DISEASE-PRONED SLUT, WHORE, MARRIAGE WRECKER, SKANKY, IMMORAL, ILLEGAL PIECE OF TRASH (AND SO ON). M'men love to look at a naked female - doesn't matter who and what moral character she is - they are visual and just want to look (not to mention, TOUCH). Nasty, Nasty, Nasty Can you imagine being the 1,000th male that this female has allowed to penetrate her ---- the number in the line up you are is NOT what is important ---- and who knows what number in line you are for that particular night. AND YOU MALES REALLY DON'T THINK THIS IS NASTY??? She just sucked his and now she's sucking yours. An AIDS patient may have just squirted his sperm in her right before you - and that is OKAY??? Men are so shallow minded that they think THEY are special enough to get this "attractive" girl to do it to them --- never once thinking of the true grossness of being whatever number in the line-up you are ...... and especially then bringing that disgust home to a wife!
Tuesday 17 November
By Kalikkalack
The prostitute is not the marriage wrecker, he cheating husband is. Your entire post made me feel like your husband cheated on you, gave you a cookie, and now you are blaming the girl he was with instead of him.
Tuesday 17 November
By T
Why do people always automatically assume that because someone is disgusted with this sort of behaviour, it means they've been affected by it personally, as if there is no other reason why anyone would feel strongly about the issue? Responses like that are just unbelieveably shallow and ignorant.
What a lot of people are saying here is that the end justifies the means, as long as the end turns out good. It's pretty obvious that they've never really considered what it means to start going down that road. If the end always justifies the means, then how about if someone likes your brand new car that you just paid a mint for, and they decide it would look better in their driveway? Oh, of course, they plan to use it to bring things to Goodwill, or to pick up a friend's kids from school, or to deliver meals to shut-ins, so they will make far better use of it than you would, just driving back and forth to work. Does the end still justify the means?
Wrong is wrong, no matter what it's done for, and at some point, if we want to get off this slippery downward slope we're on, we're going to have to regain our sanity and realize that there was a reason we used to know right from wrong.
Monday 16 November
By LMW
Oldest profession in the world. Legalize it, regulate it, tax the earnings. w00t.
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Tuesday 17 November
By james kennington
i though motherhood was
Tuesday 17 November
By Shari
I couldn't agree more. Time to stop being a victim and assume responsibility for your own co-created experiences instead of judging another thru your distorted lens. There are no accidents in God's world, we co'create everything for our lessons. Most of all, is time to love yourself instead of shaming and blaming.
Wednesday 18 November
By FNTCYFCTRY
Prostitution is NOT illegal in England, street walking and pimping are.
America is the only civilized country WITHOUT some sort of sex worker legislation. except fpr pahrump county nv. very progressive we are.
Monday 16 November
By recharged95
All it shows is, just because you get a PhD doesn't mean you're always *right* & *good*..
Society looks upon PhDs as these good, right, heros of the mind. They make decisions just like anyone else--good and bad. I find that most PhDs to make bad decisions, be lazy, steal, cheat, do drugs, greedy, egocentric bastards, etc... it's more the normal than the exception! They are still human, folks. It's just they appear "better" cause
a. through more education, they are better prepared, and
b. colleges are freaking networking institutions to gain access, power & money nowadays.... aside from the partying. Pay to play is a good word for most higher education institutions (with the rising costs of colleges).
For anyone to assume a PhD "does the right thing" is ignorant. Purely ignorant--simple as that.
Guess what: the OP subject girl is just like anyone else, even if she has a PhD. Doctoral students do not get a free pass from being judged--though a lot of folks that did not goto college assume that...
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