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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Eleanor Gordon-Smith

I may have fallen in love with a sex worker I am paying. Could it be real?

‘You know you’ve asked her to trigger that feeling, so its intensity isn’t a guide to the truth.’ Painting: The Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864) by Frederic William Burton.
‘You know you’ve asked her to trigger that feeling, so its intensity isn’t a guide to the truth.’ Painting: The Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864) by Frederic William Burton. Photograph: Frederic William Burton/National Gallery of Ireland

I have been seeing a sex worker for a year now, very regularly, like more than once a week. We go beyond sex and also have dinner dates and outside encounters. I am now extremely attached to her; I may have even fallen in love with her.

She was hired to provide me with a “girlfriend experience” and apparently she is really good at her job because she treats me so well that I sometimes ask myself if she has any feelings towards me. But I also understand that it may be just because she is an excellent professional; after all, she is just delivering what I asked her to deliver.

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