Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info. A FORMER prostitute today provides the most detailed and harrowing account of a vice industry that ensnared her from the age of just Cassie, now 32, reveals how women were enslaved by pimps, raped and trapped in a cycle of drugs and despair. Stuff comes down the conveyer belt - you pack it, it goes. Still only a teenager, she responded to an advert for a job in an Edinburgh sauna, naively assuming she would be folding towels and answering calls.
Inside the saunas, up to 14 women would do 12 hour shifts, with some girls accomodating up to 12 punters a day. At the weekends you were fighting for rooms. Boyfriends of her friends even turned up, knowing it would be her but she refused to deal with them. She said the foreign girls, mainly Romanian or Polish, were treated worse than her by the pimps because she was Scottish with a network of friends and family.
A lot of them were being used and abused. Pimps actually owned them because they have to buy their passport back. When she wanted to move into escorting she advertised on Gumtree and one of the pimps who scour the internet for women, picked her up.
A lot of damaged girls, a lot of girls getting pregnant from clients. Nobody makes a big deal about an escort going missing,. Cassie started taking drugs to drown out the horror of the job and she realise that she was often working to feed her habit of ketamine and crack.
Pimps encouraged the girls to get addicted. If I was doing drugs at the time I had to do some drugs before I went. She tried to be safe when she was escorting, always making sure a friend had the address of the flat she was visiting. You learn all these tricks. You just learn over time, through mistakes and through bad experiences.
