Month: December 2013

  • Places I have worked part 3

    Places I have worked part 3

    I’ve always hated this corny song, although this version seems tolerable.  Play it while you read my post. A brothel next to a nunnery.  Seriously, it was.  There was a convent next door to Tudor Court where nuns lived.  Once some visiting elderly nuns walked up our path accidentally while the girls were all sitting…

  • Places I have worked part 2

    Places I have worked part 2

    London.  London was a very strange town to find work in.  Luckily I wasn’t desperate for money but I thought it would be interesting to check out the sex work scene, mainly so I could say I had done it. Even though it was equally as illegal to be a sex worker as it was…

  • Places I have worked part 1

    Places I have worked part 1

    This is the first part in a series of reminiscences about places I have worked.  I mentioned earlier that I had worked as a sex worker one summer as a teenager, back then when it was still illegal. The Penthouse was the first place I worked in when I entered the sex industry in Australia.…

  • Places I have worked – how did I get into sex work?

    Places I have worked – how did I get into sex work?

    Image: Wellington Harbour, where I entered into the sex industry as a ship girl  Most people who get into sex work get into it initially for one reason and one reason only – they need money fast.  Sometimes lingering under or just above the surface though, is an interest in or fascination with the sex…

  • The money, honey part 2

    The money, honey part 2

    Disclaimer: This lovely pile of dosh was not all earned by Amber O’Hara, neither is it indicative of an amount a “typical” sex worker could expect to earn on a daily basis in New Zealand   One skill that all working girls could consider getting would be the knowledge of how to keep a cash…

  • The money, honey part 1

    The money, honey part 1

      It’s not that hard to go legit as a hooker, so I thought I would share a few things that I have found in case any other working girls who read my blog are interested. The first thing is to remember that we are actually in a pretty fortunate position here in New Zealand,…