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High-class escort to wealthy 1 per cent reveals secret sex code words

A former high-class escort has revealed the code words used by her rich clients to ensure their illicit liaisons were never exposed.

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A former sex worker who catered to the wealthy 1 per cent has revealed the secret sex code she used on her businessmen clients.

Charlotte Shane has just released a memoir titled, An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work’ which hit shelves on August 13, and details the raunchy lifestyle she lived for over a decade, sleeping with rich men in hotels.

Before entering the sex industry, Ms Shane was in a women’s studies graduate program — but the amorous academic eventually decided to devote herself to men and her insatiable desires, the New York Post reports.

“I became a sex worker because I suspected, and hoped, it would be this way: a private, minor form of celebrity. An alternate version of myself,” she said.

A former high-class escort to the wealthy 1 per cent has revealed a secret sex code used by her clients. Picture: Instagram/Charlotte Shane
A former high-class escort to the wealthy 1 per cent has revealed a secret sex code used by her clients. Picture: Instagram/Charlotte Shane

In the book, she unveils how affluent men worked their way around the taboo business, schmoozing with women in luxurious hotels and exchanging secret code words.

“It helped that illegality-induced euphemisms tipped the dialogue into affectation,’ she wrote in an excerpt of her memoir, published in The Wall Street Journal.

“Visit” or “spend time with” meant have sex with, “friend” meant repeat customer,” she stated.

Ms Shane also recalled the moment she interacted with a client named Roger, a 54-year-old litigator in Washington, D.C.

Although the pair were set to meet at a downtown Marriott hotel at 9pm, Shane accidentally arrived 12 hours earlier at 9am dressed in “conventional business attire,” wearing a blue tailored shift dress.

While she didn’t intentionally plan to arrive so early, she purposely dressed in attire that would allow her admittance into the hotel and make her feel like she “deserved to be there”.

Roger agreed Ms Shane was more than deserving to be there and “invited” her to meet up again and again. After the third encounter, he began begging for her presence.

“I have to say that each time I visit with you, I am left wanting to see you more,” Roger wrote after their third date.

Charlotte Shane said she became a sex worker to become a ‘minor form of celebrity’. Picture: Instagram/Charlotte Shane
Charlotte Shane said she became a sex worker to become a ‘minor form of celebrity’. Picture: Instagram/Charlotte Shane
In the new book she reveals why she quit the X-rated profession. Picture: Instagram/Charlotte Shane
In the new book she reveals why she quit the X-rated profession. Picture: Instagram/Charlotte Shane

Whenever a meet-up went well, Ms Shane made sure to send a thank you note to clients for the “wonderful evening,” especially to those who she would like to see again.

Quite frequently, Ms Shane would receive admiring messages back from “married men, single men, men who were divorced, men a few years or a few decades older than me, men who were wealthy and men who were rich, and men living under secret, crushing debt.”

After years in the sex work industry, Ms Shane decided it was time for her to step down due to the changes she wasn’t comfortable with.

“These days sex workers, even in-person workers without OnlyFans accounts, have to operate like influencers to advertise and, for me, that extracts too much regardless of the compensation,” she wrote in a personal blog entry posted on July 10.

Ms Shane admitted that marketing had evolved since the early 2010s when profiles included stock images, champagnes, and an about me section listing educational degrees and languages.

With other escorts adding accolades to their profile, it made Ms Shane feel insecure about the skills she had to offer, questioning if she would be able to charge as much as other sex workers.

She wrote how she was “too afraid of being caught in a lie to pretend otherwise”, stating she believes her memoir “inspire its readers to love more thoughtfully, to love better”.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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