SKIRMISHER

The anonymous person using the pseudonym Belle de Jour whose best-selling stories about how to lead a secret life as a prostitute and influence people turns out to be research scientist Brooke Magnanti, a specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology in a hospital research group in Bristol and whose “hot” prostitute-y picture appears below.

Running out of money to finish her PhD thesis in 2003, Magnanti turned to prostitution through a London escort agency, charging £300 an hour. She wasn’t absolutely unemployable, as she also had another job as a computer programmer. But she continued with prostitution because “it was so much more enjoyable.”

Kids, remember that! So you know what you wanna be when you grow up!

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