Athalia
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Well, I'm here and I can answer that question. Erin was definitely not a prostitute or a "sex worker" in the conventional sense. She was a licensed psychologist specializing in sexual anxiety and dysfunction. She may have had sex with her clientele, but it was always for therapeutic purposes, and not simply to collect a fee for getting laid. What wasn't clear, I suppose, was that she had many other clients who didn't need actual sexual contact, as long as there were other ways of treating them. When she laid Connie, the MC of the story, I tried to make it clear that in this case she was doing the job as a token of her friendship rather than for renumeration.You'd have to ask Athalia what she had in mind when she wrote the story, but I would guess that the character was what we'd call a "sexual surrogate" since it was clear that she'd had some sort of psychological training.
From the thread, I would gather that "sexual surrogate" would be an apt description of her job. FWIW, I modeled the character on a person interviewed on a radio program who was in that line of work. She emphasized that she was very selective in her process of accepting clients, and felt that she'd done a good job when they could go out on their own and never have the need to consult her again. That doesn't sound like a good business model for a harlot.