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Going Down in the Downturn | Salon Life
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“Boob play ” “pics of kitty ” “topless housecleaning” and “hypno role play.” The list scribbled in a lined yellow notebook is followed by a double-underlined figure $725.
It’s 9 a.m. on a Friday and 30-year-old Marie is sitting on her couch clad in Donald Duck pajamas munching on buttered toast and staring at her cellphone like she can will it to ring. If someone calls in response to the ad she posted this morning on Craigslist she can add $75 to her projected income for the month.
Five months ago before being laid off Marie was bringing in $45 000 a year at Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Now she operates out of two offices: her living room and a regularly changing hotel room. Her uniform is different too: Instead of conservative business attire she dons a lace bra and booty-hugging capris. The former corporate supervisor has become a sex worker.
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