Being on Call for a Swiss Call Girl

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When you mention prostitution to Americans, many of them think about dope-addicted, morally destitute damsels in distress under the thumb of blinged-out pimps, before Richard Gere comes to the rescue. In Switzerland, however, prostitution has been legal since 1942, with an estimated annual turnover of 3.79 billion dollars.
Due to its legalization and agreements between Switzerland and the European Union on the [URL="https://www.bfm.admin.ch//bfm/en/home/themen/fza_schweiz-eu-efta.html"]free movement of people[/URL], the number of prostitutes has risen sharply over the last decade. As of August 2013, Zurich local authorities even installed "[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/world/europe/switzerland-sex-drive-ins/"]sex drive-ins[/URL]," as an attempt to sweep prostitution off the streets. With thriving sex clubs, erotic massage parlors, sauna clubs, escort services, and licensed brothels running out of studio apartments, prostitutes are treated the same as any other self-employed worker in the Alpine nation. They have to possess a valid work permit, a sex worker license, health insurance, and pay taxes.
Alice Sala, an ethnologist from the University of Neuchâtel, worked for six months as a receptionist for a prostitute in an erotic massage parlor in Geneva, as field research for her masterâ??s thesis called â??Alice in Prostituteland.â? There, she performed the job of your everyday massage salon secretary, answering phone calls, scheduling appointments, offering clients refreshments, lighting candles, and laying out clean towels and perfumeâ??only the clients in the waiting room werenâ??t your everyday lower-back pain patients and the salon, with its dimly-lit bedroom, large canopy bed, and domination dungeon, didnâ??t offer your everyday massage.
Erotic massage, as the name suggests, is the use of massage techniques to achieve or enhance sexual arousal, hence the nicknameâ??happy ending massageâ? or â??rub-and-tug.â? Aliceâ??s employer offered both sexual and non-sexual services during her 30 minute sessionsâ??from domination, simulated rape, foot fetishes, urination, or dildo penetration to the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend_experience"]GFE (Girlfriend Experience)[/URL], where she acted out the role of a lover in an exclusive relationship.
Aliceâ??s erotic massage parlor experience was published in 2010 in the book [I][URL="http://www.antipodes.ch/liste-des-titres/160"]Cachez ce Travail que Je ne Serais Voir : Ethnographier le Travail du Sexe[/URL][/I], which means [I]Conceal the Work I Canâ??t Endure to See: Ethnography of Sex Work[/I].The book chronicles stories of the worldâ??s oldest profession from around the globeâ??from Swiss transvestitism and Brazilian street brothels to northern Chinaâ??s migrant prostitution. It rejects the idea that prostitutes are criminals or victims at the disposal of men, but rather skilled, independent women in control of their own fate. I caught up with Alice to find out if being the on-call girl for a call girl is anything like [I]Pretty Woman[/I].