Several years ago, I met a young woman from Liverpool who was 'on the game'. As best that I could make out from her story she had had an older boyfriend who had dumped her and I got the distinct impression that her response, at least in part, was if you don't want me then I'll prove that all the men want me hence she started escorting. However, she did say one thing that stuck with me which was, "I have become much more confident since I became a prostitute".

She also said that she was having less sex as a call girl than her friends back in Liverpool who were going out to bars every evening. 'on the pull'. That I found interesting as well as a massive sea change in mores among working class women in Britain from when I lived there in the 70s. This incident was around the year 2000.