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1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 min. 37 sec.) ; 264755007 bytes |
| Summary |
Ever since the publication of the bestselling memoirs, Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl, escorting has been presented as a viable career choice for young women. But these aren't desperate women with no alternative; they're often middle class girls looking to fund expensive lifestyles. Journalist Alex Bedford meets these self-styled happy hookers and their punters, to find out whether it's possible to do this job and retain a normal life.Alex meets a variety of twenty-something women at the forefront of an emerging shift in the sex industry, young, trendy women in London who are turning to high-end escorting to finance their expensive taste for lavish goods.Although media outlets and policy makers tend to paint female sex workers with a broad brush - either as drug-addicted young women or as trafficked migrants who have no control over their lives, there is a growing trend amongst more apparently 'middle-class' girls entering the profession and Alex wants to know why. From the UK) (Documentary) M (A,N,L) CC |
| Event |
Broadcast 2011-11-04 at 22:00:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: M |
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Escort services.
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Prostitutes -- Psychology.
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Prostitutes -- Social life and customs.
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Prostitution -- Economic aspects.
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Students -- Economic conditions.
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England -- London.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Bedford, Alex, host
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Jesper, Nick, director
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Mofidi, Mandana, director
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