Cleeve - Mattress actress

When I started out selling sex in Queensland at the tender age of fifteen, I wanted to be an actress. Id done a twelve-month acting course and belonged to a talent agency but I had no idea what a mattress actress was or how to be one. I was talented at being young, blonde and attractive, plus I had big boobs. I didnt know you had to work for your money. I didnt know about tricks or anything about the business of acting to please men in bed.

But I was a fast learner and pretty soon knew everything needed to make every client happy.

I eventually became more than a prostitute; I became a professional sex worker. I moved to the high-end parlours and agencies; I ran my own business and travelled the world selling my craft to politicians, businessmen, rock stars, professional sportsmen and rulers of small countries.

What does selling sex mean? In reality, a sex worker is someone who doesnt just sell sex, its someone who sells fantasy. My job was to work out what this client was doing in my house and on my bed. Only about forty per cent of the men I saw were just there for the sex. The other sixty per cent needed ego strokingthey needed a compliment, affection and someone to talk to. My job was to figure out what it was they were craving so theyd return every other week with another wad of cash.

I constantly had to keep my wits about me to protect myself. You want them to fall in love with the fantasy but not in love with you. That can be dangerous. When I was young, I used to think how great it was that these men were in love with me. With the wisdom that comes with experience, I realised they were in love with the fantasy.

One heart-breaking incident taught me a lot. I fell madly in love with a guy who was smitten with me; he took me out to dinner and away on holidays. Later I found out he knew nothing about the real me, nor was he interested in my dreams and aspirations. He was in love with the nympho who gave him sex on demand; who always pandered to his ego with compliments; who always gave him what he wanted; who was always clean and healthy. The real me with a runny nose or a periodno, no, nohe wasnt interested in that.

I learnt the lesson that clients are never going to be in love with the real you; its the MadonnaWhore complex: every guy wants to marry a saint but they want to fuck a nympho. They will never take you seriously because you sell sex. They love the idea of being with you, but to get to know youforget it.

A woman who sells sex must understand that even though a client may think hes in love, she knows its his fantasy; that way she never has to give away her real self because he wont take it seriously and he is never going to remember whatever she tells him about herself out of the context of her work. He doesnt want to know thatall he wants to know is that shes available on Tuesday at two oclock.

A professional knows that the best business is repeat business. And the best way to get that business is to know what to say and what not to sayeven if it kills you! If he tells me hes an engineer, I tell him thats really fascinating and ask him to tell me all about it. Maybe hes looking for a bit of a laugh. If theyre fat you tell them theyve got lovely eyes. If they go to the trouble of waxing their chest, you compliment them on their great physique. You never tell a man he has bad breath or ask him to use a deodorant even though every fibre of your being is suffering under his armpit. A girlfriend or wife might tell them they stink or are crap lovers but a professional is not paid to be honest. Thats why clients come back.

Put a condom on a man with quite a large dick and after three minutes he says he cant feel a thing and youre not making him come. The usual response when you tell him that the condom is too tight will be that youre just blowing smoke up his arse because hes got a big dick. You say, Mate, Ive already got your money, I dont need to lie to you; the condom is acting like a tourniquet. So lets just do it between the boobs with no condom.

Someone less professionala hooker, as Id call themwould tell him if he cant come, thats his problem: Times up, now fuck off.

Youre a mattress actress. You never say what you think, you say what they want to hear. You give Oscar-winning performances. If a guy said you looked like you were enjoying yourself, youd say, Yes! What else could you say?

Clients came in all shapes and sizes, but mostly they are married men. Being single is certainly no barrier to pursuing the company of sex workers. They are the single clients who choose to be single; often they may be bitter and burned or simply in a career that is not conducive to a healthy relationship. Finally there is the small percentage of clients who could never get a free shagthe guys with disabilities or social anxieties. Everybody deserves a stroke on the back and a bit of a cuddle, which was what most of my clients were chasing anyway.

There were the girls who worked to feed a drug habit but a professional worker had an accountant; give him a freebie once a year and hed sort your tax out. Often you work on a barter system so you never had to pay for anything; you had a client who sold cars, a client who was a chemist, a client who was a butcher, a computer technician, lawyer, furniture manufacturer, restaurateurs, sometimes even artists.

It sounds like a clich, but the pandering to mens whims and the mindset of obeying a mans command needed to be a sex worker often comes about from years of pre-adolescent training. I was five foot six with double-D boobs on a size six figure by the age of ten. I looked like a grown woman. I had a knack of arousing males of all ages. It had been also drummed into me at home that my future was to be a good wife and look after my husband. My science teacher echoed my parents beliefs by telling me with your looks and figure you will never need to work a day in your life outside the bedroom.

After enduring two violent sexual attacks before I was twelve, I realised if a guy wanted to have sex with you, it was easier to just give it to him; if you didnt, hed take it anyway and hurt you. This experience reinforced my parents training to do as I was told. I was afraid of men. All the men I knew hurt me or let me down in some way. Even those meant to protect mepolice and school teachersfailed to do so. So I learnt that all men were potential predators to be feared and revered.

Social grooming was an essential part of growing up in my family; etiquette, posture and conversation skills were more important than good grades. At fifteen I didnt know my own value, all I knew was that I was fuckable. I knew I was good at pleasing men, and in my brain, this was the summation of my self-worth. It seemed to be the one commodity everybody wanted from me and the one thing I excelled at.