In today's Evening Standard (London local free paper) it gives the real name of the writer of Belle de Jour. Her name is Brooke Magnanti. It says her father was a crack addict and spent a lot of time with prostitutes. She met some of them, and it doesn't sound as if they were street girls. He seems to blame his association with them for him becoming a drug addict.
So drugs are not just part of the world of street girls, they are also part of the world of Belle de Jour. A man who uses a high-class escort cannot be sure that his money is not being used to buy cocaine or crack cocaine. He cannot be sure that he is not going to get done under the new law.
i absolutly love your blog and allways read it with great interest. i live locally to the common and have not seen any girls there for years, i recently heard of an operation on the common targeting kerb crawlers and that there were a number of arrests made. it strikes me as crazy that in streatham and tooting where robberies are rife - i was robbed recently , the police are wasting there time with on tooting bec common ! i would be interested to hear your views .
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