City councillor tells of her past as a high class escort girl
A NOTTINGHAM city councillor and successful author has told of her past as a high-class London escort in the mid 1980s.
Coun Catharine Arnold said she got into escorting after getting into financial difficulties while living in the capital in her twenties.
The Basford Labour councillor and Executive Assistant for Leisure, Culture and Customers wrote about her experiences in a national Sunday newspaper while promoting her new book City of Sin: London and Its Vices.
In the article, she wrote: "I wasn't an obvious candidate for recruitment to the sex industry. I'd come down from Cambridge with a degree in English and a broken heart, keen to see life, only to wind up in a string of temporary jobs and broke.
"Far from looking like a conventional hooker, I was a gamine public-school girl with a fresh complexion and a good figure. I had always had a thing about older men, perhaps because I lost my father young.
"I was never hard enough to be a real 'Mayfair mercenary', as the top girls were known. I never went to Tokyo Joe's or Tramp, and the women who did terrified me. I wasn't interested in rock starts or celebrities. I knew my type: they were the older men who would find in the quiet bar and take me to dinner and tell me about their children. I nursed the hope that at some stage I would meet a kindly sugar daddy who would set me up in Mayfair. But I never found such a man."
The former Hollygirt pupil said she turned her back on high class escorting after falling in love with a "brilliant but erratic" young Italian graduate who disapproved of her work.
Speaking to the Post about her article's revelations, Coun Arnold said: "It was a long time ago. I'm hoping that we are all grown up and others will realise that people do a few things when they are younger."
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by james mason, sherwood
Saturday, August 07 2010, 6:41PM
“some promiscuity is better than mass genocide&infanticide, if a politician commits the former the sky falls in, the latter is done for a corporate politburo& fake economy, so thats ok?”
by Johnny, Grow up
Saturday, August 07 2010, 6:26PM
“boys,many men & women see escorts. I'd rather be married to a honest women like catherine than a liar.
Politicians can committ mass genocide, but if they have a open relationship or work in the sex industry the sky falls in,grow up boys&girls”
by james mason, sherwood
Saturday, August 07 2010, 6:20PM
“Its a job,that should be tested,regulated& more about educating couples&adults, many do it, your wife or husband maybe at some point for money or favours.
I might not agree with your politics catherine, but I salute your honesty.
We are a great nation, but universally known for juvenile sexual attitudes, you havent really disproved that here have you.
The women down on their luck on forest rd might are desperate, put afew parlours opposite the cemetery& lets stop street prostitution”
by wurrows, Nottingham
Tuesday, July 27 2010, 10:42PM
“Everybody has done something which they regret. Everybody will do, and has the right to do, anything to preserve themselves. No argument. Whatever she has done in the distant past - so be it. No-one has the right to critisize. Her mistake is telling everyone about it, and making money out of it. That really is a 'prostitute' - the lowest, of the lowest, scum.”
by Dave, Nottingham
Tuesday, July 27 2010, 7:16AM
“"s she not admitting to breaking the law,last time i knew prostitution was illegal sp, beeston" - No, it's never been illegal in English law. I think you are thinking of soliciting for prostitution. An example of this is pestering people on Forest Road by saying "Do you want business?"”