I have a feeling this question was asked sometime ago but...
A while back I saw British miniseries called Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The miniseries was based on the book of the same name written by a London call girl. I wonder if there are any ladies here familiar with either film and/or book? If yes, what did you think of it? How close to the real life did you find it to be? Let's say on the 10-point scale. What did you find to be real and what pure dramatization? Are there any episodes that rung of something that you yourself have experienced? For example, the main character has a male best friend (who of course is secretly in love with her; how can it be otherwise ) and stream of boy-friends outside of work. How often do you think this happen? What percentage of call girls do you you think are involved in steady and relatively stable relationships? Out of them what percentage of their partners are aware of their girl-friend's/wife's activities and are perfectly fine with it? Does the job affect the way you look at the relationship or do you think you have that same attitude before you got into the profession? For the main character in the film every new appointment seemed to be a source of excitement. She says that she gets (positive) adrenaline rush almost every time she approaches the door of the hotel room. True? What about negative thoughts like what if he is ugly, violent, what have you. To an outside observer that may appear as natural thoughts to have when you about to meet a stranger who is not of your choice. But I'm more interested in your opinion of the movie/book? Pretty true or total fiction?-- Modified on 3/28/2014 10:28:02 PM
That book is the reason that I found out about TER and then the rest is history lol...... great book I really enjoyed it definitely worth reading ....
Xoxo kayden
The series was just loosely based on the book, which was based on her blog, a very interesting woman who is now an activist and writer, I follow her on Twitter and I am in awe of how well she writes and how open she is. I literally used the series as another research tool, and if I did have to say that I molded myself or was inspired by someone in this industry, it was definitely Brooke M.
For me it hit very close even from the beginning, my ex of 10 yrs is my best friend. We used to have a rather co-dependent relationship, two years later it's slowly downgraded to just close.
I know several reviews said it was too dramatized but especially in the first season, she dealt with things I took notes on:
-guys who are your age
-threesomes
-overnights
-reviews
-shady person
-disabled person
Etc, I can't say enough good things about it. Those brits and their talent for television.
Nah, it's the first one...fun Friday night that knocked me out early.
It's on netflix, from Australian show time. Both are pretty realistic and I really enjoyed them
I find it to be pretty realistic. I also have the book which is a great read. To answer your question about men who are friends most of my friends are men. One of my best friends is my ex. I think its easier for us to be friends with men because they are less judgmental about our profession than other women. The female friends I have outside of the industry don't know what I do, but my male friends do and its nice to be able to share funny stories from work with them.
Yes, this what I would expect. I personally found the series quite entertaining and from reading the posts here I figured that a lot of what transpired in the series seemed close to the reality.
As for other women's attitude towards the profession they always surprised me. I never quite completely understand why so many women found escorts threatening.
Once I was talking to a female friend and she told me that she'd rather have her husband have an affair, even if it's with her best friend, then to spend time with escorts. I tried to reason that having an affair actually amounts to having a competing relationship on the side and presents a real threat to her own relationship, while seeing escorts really doesn't. In fact under many circumstances it could actually be the thing that keeps marriages together.
But she'd frown and have none of that.
There is a French joke about a woman coming home from two-week long business trip and asking her husband how many women did he sleep with while she was away. He responds: "One only". "Only one?!" she covers her mouth in dismay "I think we have a problem!"
I also remember reading that back in the day and even sometimes now, the Japanese woman would take an active part in picking a geisha for her husband.
All those things make sense to me, but I really don't understand women's harsh attitude towards the escorts. Hidden envy? No, it can't be just as simple as that. A hypocritical desire to present herself as virginous and righteous to herself as well as to the outside world (in this case myself)? Hm... Subconscious fear of something like that happening to them? Maybe. Or maybe rather a fear mixed with the magnet?
I mean I met women who would legalize heroin before prostitution! And while I'm a staunch supporter of legalization of both, I still don't understand how can one compare a real damage done by hard drugs with such a largely victimless activity.
Weird...