Amanda Goff talks about life as a sex worker with Gary Jubelin for I Catch Killers podcast series
Amanda Goff has revealed how “dating d---heads” prompted her to reinvent herself as a high-class sex worker. Warning: Graphic
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Former high-profile escort Amanda Goff has told how “dating d---heads” and being ghosted by men prompted her to ditch her media career and become a full-time sex worker.
Ms Goff, formerly known as Samantha X, has opened up about her past in a candid interview with Detective Inspector (retd) Gary Jubelin for his I Catch Killers podcast series.
In part one of their interview, the 48-year-old mother of two revealed how her disillusionment with the “tiring” dating scene eventually led to her working at a Sydney brothel.
She also told how a brutal sexual assault by a client forced her to temporarily leave the industry and how being a sex worker made her feel like she had “power” over men.
Unable to cope with her “suffocating” life, Ms Goff split from her long-term partner in her late 30s.
She had long been intrigued by the sex industry and when a man she was dating told her “you’d make a very good sex worker”, she decided to take the plunge.
“I just thought ‘f--- you, that’s what I’m going to do’.
“I remember thinking this is the right time to do it.
“I just thought, really, I’m too old to be messed around by men.”
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Ms Goff said she wanted to “capitalise” on her power over men.
When asked by Mr Jubelin what it was about the sex industry that “intrigued” her, the London-born Ms Goff said her fascination stemmed from her teenage years.
The daughter of a wealthy businessman, she had a privileged childhood in the posh suburb of Wimbledon.
“As a family, we used to go to the South of France for summers and I used to see sex workers on the streets.
“In the eyes of a young girl, they used to seem so glamorous — that intrigued me.”
After moving to Sydney to work as a journalist, a visit to a Kings Cross strip club for an article she was working on flicked a switch inside her.
“I went backstage at Kings Cross and these women were just so powerful and smart and sassy and strong.
“And they were older — they weren’t 19-year-olds, they were mums, they were studying, they were lawyers.”
Ms Goff said the incident left her “like a moth to a light”.
In her two books, which she said she wrote to clear up “misconceptions” about the sex industry, Ms Goff told how she initially led a double life by working at a boutique brothel in North Sydney while maintaining her real job.
“I dipped my toe in - and from day one, I was hooked,” she told the podcast.
She refers to her first client as “Mr Bean” and said the experience was life-changing.
“Some nerdy, normal bloke — you know, 30-second sex and an hour-and-a half conversation. and I go home with $100 bills,” she told Mr Jubelin.
Another client was not interested in sex and just wanted to sit on the bed with her and watch sport on the TV.
There has, however, been dark times, including her alleged sexual assault by a married customer.
“I was sexually assaulted and sex workers can get sexually assaulted, as you know,” she told the podcast.
“It wasn’t so much the assault that upset me, it was the fact that I was sacked afterwards.
“It's the only job I’ve been sacked from and it really upset me.”
Jubelin said the client was a “a pig of a human being”.
“You were injured and you were outraged by it and quite rightly so.”
Ms Goff praised the police for their efforts in locating the man.
The attack forced her to return to her “normal life” but she just “couldn’t do it.”
“I thought, you know what, I’m going to be more powerful and more successful and I created this woman called Samantha.
“I rented a really beautiful waterside unit in the city, I tripled my prices and that journey began.”
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