"I worked in a brothel - but now I earn £300-an-HOUR on OnlyFans"
A woman says she saw “up to 16” clients a day when she worked in a brothel - but now she earns £300 an hour as an self-employed sex worker.
Jade Blair, 26, stopped working in retail and started sex work because she wanted to save up for a house while studying part-time at university.
She worked 16 hours shifts, seeing up to 16 clients a day, and earned up to £900 a day, but left after three years to work for herself on OnlyFans.
Now, she earns £3k a month on the platform, and charges a fixed hourly rate of £300 for a ‘set menu’ of sexual services, working four hours a day.
Jade, from Brisbane, Australia, said: “I decided to go into sex work because I love sex - it’s amazing, I can be my own boss, set my own hours, and I don’t even have to wear pants while I’m working.
“Being a retail manager was fine - but I can’t say I was passionate about it. I wanted to earn a little more income.”
Jade was working as a full-time manager in a shop when she decided to work in an industry she felt more enthusiastic about, while studying politics at university.
She liked her job - but could only just scrape by on minimum wage, and wanted to find a side hustle.
While brainstorming other career paths, she realised she enjoyed sex - and would be able to make money from it.
She said: “I was saving for a house, and I saw a mortgage advisor. He told me there was no way I’d be able to afford a deposit as a single person working minimum wage. After tax, I was earning £300 a week.
“I wanted a side hustle at first and I wanted it to be kind of fun - I was already working in retail, I wanted to do something I actually enjoyed.
“I researched different options and made a little list - I considered dog walking, and I even looked into becoming a professional wine and chocolate taster.
“Then I realised - I love sex, I enjoy it - and it’s legal in Queensland. So I went for it.”
Jade applied to a brothel for full-time work - and was invited for an interview.
The process was very relaxed, and all she needed to do was send some photos of herself, pass an STI test and answer a questionnaire about her wellbeing.
She was then shown the ropes - including how to introduce herself to a client, which room to lead her in, and the rates she’d be charging for different acts.
“I was picked on my first shift,” she added. “The client would introduce themselves, and we’d go into a room.
“I hadn’t had any experience in the sex industry before - just a couple of one-night stands. So I had a lot of butterflies in my tummy that first time!
“I didn’t think I’d get picked straight away - my first client was really nice, really gentlemanly. Usually in brothels we charge a fixed rate of £62 for a massage, full intercourse with a condom and oral sex with a condom, lasting an hour.
“Anything extra - like the ‘girlfriend experience’ - is another £26 in tips.”
Jade Blair, 26, stopped working in retail and started sex work because she wanted to save up for a house while studying part-time at university.
She worked 16 hours shifts, seeing up to 16 clients a day, and earned up to £900 a day, but left after three years to work for herself on OnlyFans.
Now, she earns £3k a month on the platform, and charges a fixed hourly rate of £300 for a ‘set menu’ of sexual services, working four hours a day.
Jade, from Brisbane, Australia, said: “I decided to go into sex work because I love sex - it’s amazing, I can be my own boss, set my own hours, and I don’t even have to wear pants while I’m working.
“Being a retail manager was fine - but I can’t say I was passionate about it. I wanted to earn a little more income.”
Jade was working as a full-time manager in a shop when she decided to work in an industry she felt more enthusiastic about, while studying politics at university.
She liked her job - but could only just scrape by on minimum wage, and wanted to find a side hustle.
While brainstorming other career paths, she realised she enjoyed sex - and would be able to make money from it.
She said: “I was saving for a house, and I saw a mortgage advisor. He told me there was no way I’d be able to afford a deposit as a single person working minimum wage. After tax, I was earning £300 a week.
“I wanted a side hustle at first and I wanted it to be kind of fun - I was already working in retail, I wanted to do something I actually enjoyed.
“I researched different options and made a little list - I considered dog walking, and I even looked into becoming a professional wine and chocolate taster.
“Then I realised - I love sex, I enjoy it - and it’s legal in Queensland. So I went for it.”
Jade applied to a brothel for full-time work - and was invited for an interview.
The process was very relaxed, and all she needed to do was send some photos of herself, pass an STI test and answer a questionnaire about her wellbeing.
She was then shown the ropes - including how to introduce herself to a client, which room to lead her in, and the rates she’d be charging for different acts.
“I was picked on my first shift,” she added. “The client would introduce themselves, and we’d go into a room.
“I hadn’t had any experience in the sex industry before - just a couple of one-night stands. So I had a lot of butterflies in my tummy that first time!
“I didn’t think I’d get picked straight away - my first client was really nice, really gentlemanly. Usually in brothels we charge a fixed rate of £62 for a massage, full intercourse with a condom and oral sex with a condom, lasting an hour.
“Anything extra - like the ‘girlfriend experience’ - is another £26 in tips.”
Transcript
00:00 I'm a worker online and in person and my rates vary a lot. At the moment my online work has
00:11 kind of taken off and has now become my main source of income, although I love my in-person
00:16 work, I love my clients, I love getting to interact with people in such a vulnerable,
00:23 intimate kind of way. Like it's kind of soothing and healing for the soul, not for everyone but
00:28 for me, I like it with the right person. A lot of people don't understand this industry and how
00:33 the kind of money side of it works. A lot of people think the lower your rates are, the more
00:39 money you will make because you can see lots of clients and sometimes this is correct. However,
00:43 there is a limit on like how much you can work in this industry because physically, you know,
00:49 friction, like you're using lots of muscles, it's a labor intensive job, you can't,
00:56 there's a limit, right, to how much your body can do that. Also like emotionally and mentally,
01:00 like it is, it is very vulnerable, it is very intimate, you need downtime to cope with that,
01:05 just like a lot of other professions who deal with that need to as well. Some people are only
01:11 doing this for like extra spending money for the holidays, some people are doing it as more of a
01:18 side job, like I guess I am kind of doing that at the moment, it's kind of like my side hustle,
01:23 and some people are doing it as their full-time income. So everyone has different goals in what
01:28 they're trying to get out of it. At the moment, I'm mostly doing one and two hour bookings up to
01:33 three hours. I won't do a booking longer than that and I won't do a booking shorter than one hour,
01:38 that's just my personal preference at the moment, it's what works for me and my lifestyle and I work
01:44 for myself so I can pick that boundary. However, when I first started, I was in an establishment,
01:51 the kind of way that it's done is it's a lot cheaper so you have to see a lot more clients
01:57 to make money, so I was often doing more half an hour bookings and that's how I started,
02:05 that's pretty much all I would get. Now it's mostly one to two hours and the occasional three hour.
02:10 Most men will take like six-ish minutes to get where they want to go, that's just like kind of
02:19 science from when you start really trying to make them get where they want to go. Guys really need
02:24 to do a little bit of research on how long the average male can last because so many come in
02:31 feeling really embarrassed and upset and disappointed in themselves and I'm like,
02:37 no that's like totally normal, like that is a normal average rate for you to last
02:44 and you have nothing bad to feel about. I used to see up to like 16 clients a day.
02:49 Now it was when I was working in an establishment, it's legal where I am,
02:54 so basically you sign up for a shift and I would do a double shift which is two eight hour shifts.
03:01 Now in that shift, you're not really like working the whole time, basically when a client comes in,
03:07 you'll introduce yourself, if they book you, then you work, otherwise you kind of just like chill
03:11 and hang out in the ladies room and just do kind of whatever you want. I've always, it doesn't
03:17 matter what establishment I'm in, it doesn't matter when I'm independent, it doesn't matter
03:21 what time of year, I am always the busiest on Mondays. I have a friend who for some reason,
03:26 Wednesday, that's her day, doesn't matter, it's been years, like that's just her day and it kind
03:33 of does make sense in a way because different people are going to attract different clients,
03:37 right? Like I'm not going to click with everyone as much as I try. Some people are going to be
03:42 like, "Yeah, she's cool." And some people are like, "Whatever." That's just the reality,
03:47 not everyone's going to like you, that's fine. And so those types of people I tend to click with
03:53 tend to be older gentlemen, so they're coming, they're usually business professionals owning
03:58 their own business, are able to kind of take control of their own schedule, so they love to
04:02 see me first thing on a Monday morning because they've been working busy all weekend. So Monday
04:06 is kind of almost their weekend, at least for the mornings anyway, and then they get crazy back into
04:12 work. Another reason is particularly when you're working in establishments, you used to actually be
04:18 able to kind of stay there. They have everything for you to stay there. So there's beds in the
04:22 ladies area, there's usually a full kitchen, there's obviously bathrooms, you can take a
04:26 shower there. So if you had a really long commute and a lot of people would because they didn't want
04:31 to be found out, right? Like it was a secret. So you travel really far from where you lived,
04:36 so no one would kind of walk in and recognize you. So sometimes you travel two or three hours to go
04:42 to work, you do a double shift, sleep there, do another double shift and then go home. You've
04:46 done four shifts that week. Yeah. And also kind of save some fuel as well.