12:04pm Wednesday 7th May 2008
By Emily Walker
A WOMAN working as a prostitute at a Swindon brothel has said she is proud of her job.
Jenny works as a dominatrix from a friend's house and said not all prostitutes are on drugs.
"I would happily speak out, but there is still a bit of a stigma attached to it, so I don't want my children to get picked on for it," said Jenny, who is using an assumed name.
After years of office work she got into the game as a way of providing for her children.
Jenny said she offers specialist services to men who can't satisfy their needs in conventional relationships.
"I work as a dominatrix, dressing up and things," she said.
"A lot of my clients don't feel they can ask their wives to do the things they want.
"So they come to me instead.
"I see it as providing a kind of bespoke service.
"I don't always enjoy what I'm doing but I do it so I can provide for my family."
The mum-of-two said she could earn up to £100 an hour, and her pay varied dramatically on different days of the week.
She said: "I was working two jobs before and struggling to provide for my kids.
"Now I work when I want to and earn good money.
"There are so many women out there who will sleep with a man on a one night stand after a few drinks. I don't see what I do as any different to that.
"Men pick women up and take advantage of them, so I might as well make a profit out of it.
"My children are pretty much the only people who don't know what I do.
"That's not because I'm ashamed of it, but you don't ever really want your kids to know too much detail about your sex life.
"When I first told my parents they didn't like the idea, but now they understand that I would never do anything I wasn't comfortable with."
Jenny describes her secret life as a job and says she doesn't find the men she sleeps with attractive.
"I have one client who is an 82-year-old war veteran," she said. "It can be hard when it is someone you really don't fancy, but you just switch off and do what you've got to do.
"People think it is all sleazy men, but most of them are normal. They are your husbands, dads and friends, they just have sexual needs they either can't get elsewhere or are too embarrassed to ask for.
"As it is a business transaction they don't have to feel bad about asking for exactly what they want."
Jenny said brothels were a good way of protecting sex workers.
"I'm not on drugs, and none of the other women I work with are," she said.
"I'm sure there are girls who are forced into prostitution, but not here.
"Girls on the streets might be drug addicts, but I'm not.
"I just work from a normal house where my friend lives. There is no way I would work from the streets, but I don't have any fears about my safety here."
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