In 2005, Holly Hill* gave up her job for a wealthy boyfriend who dumped her. Distraught and lacking funds, she decided to put herself forward as an escort.
The Sydney-based woman has just released a controversial new book detailing her experiences.
"It's true multi-dimensional employment," says the psychologist-turned-escort who claims she got 11,000 replies to her advertisement looking for a client or, as she puts it, "sugar daddy".
"I think we have to realise that we haven't managed to transcend our biology," says Ms Hill who claims all men want sex and it's a woman's job to provide it.
Her clients fell into three categories; young men "who didn't have time to find a girlfriend", men who were married with children and older men whose wives knew they strayed.
After interviewing 100 men, Ms Hill says she settled on one man to be her sugar daddy. Her sugar daddy wanted conversation more than sex she says.
"He paid me $1000 a week for mostly 15-minute conversations between meetings," she says.
While working as an escort Holly decided it was easier not to have a boyfriend.
"This is something I have to do by myself," she says. "I don't think it would be fair to have a partner going through this."
Holy claims her book about her experiences Sugarbabe, has been well received by women.
"A lot of women are saying it's helping them to understand why they were cheated on," says Ms Hill.
Her time as an escort has given her greater insight into what men really want. Holly says these insights will help her find her next relationship.
"When you know what a man hold's in his head, you do tend to get a lot of offers."
Holly's book, Sugarbabe is published by Random House, RRP $32.95.
*Not her real name
