Hearing my phone ping with a new message, I quickly snatched it up.
I’d come to the UK from New Zealand in September 2017 after travelling around Europe for a while – but after six months here, I was struggling to find work and my money was quickly drying up.
I’d downloaded an app called Job Today, hoping to find something to bring some cash in fast – it linked you up to lots of different organisations, often in hospitality settings, so I’d made a profile and attached my CV.
And now I had my first message.
It was from a woman called Kristy, saying she had work to offer me – I replied with my number.
But in the early hours of the next morning, my phone buzzed with a new WhatsApp message from someone at the Soul Mate agency – I assumed Kristy had passed on my number.
How would you feel about escort work? Paying for sex is prostitution and illegal, but paying for somebody’s time and company isn’t. You’ll make