New York escort candidly lifts the lid on the scariest parts of her job as a sex worker - and reveals how she charges clients $2,200 for the 'girlfriend experience'

A New York escort has candidly lifted the lid on the scariest parts of her job as she revealed how she found herself in the industry - working both at a brothel as well as an independent sex worker.

Susie, who was living in Bushwick at the time of the interview but has since moved to Philadelphia, spoke to Matt Cullen, the host the YouTube series Our Queer Life.

The escort took him through her journey into sex work and what services she offers to her clients.

The sex worker said she has strict safety measures in place to make sure she stays safe - admitting she always wears protection, verifies her clients' IDs, asks them to send a deposit first and has cameras in her apartment.

Susie, who was living in Bushwick at the time of the interview but has since moved to Philadelphia, spoke to Matt Cullen, the host the YouTube series Our Queer Life

The sex worker said she has strict safety measures in place to make sure she stays safe - admitting she always wears protection, verifies her clients' IDs, asks them to send a deposit first and has cameras in her apartment 

'I consider it like a girlfriend experience, just there's no intercourse,' she shared, although added she is 'open-minded.' 

Susie said when it comes to new clients coming to her for a message, she always recommends they start off with a nuru massage as an 'icebreaker.'

'From there we can talk other stuff,' she explained.

Susie talked about her life growing up, recalling an incident when she was a child  that saw her ending up in a foster home for four years.

She admitted that she doesn't really remember anything from before she was four but maintained she wasn't abused - or if she was doesn't remember it - describing herself as a tomboy growing up who was always covered in bruises.

'[I was on the train with my mom] and I wanted something and she was like "no," and then I like spit on my mom and she spanked me,' she shared.

'This lady saw me crying so she stopped the train, and I guess she assumed that I was getting abused at home,' Susie explained.

'There were cops at the train station so they took away my mom,' she continued. 'They locked her up and then they sent me to like a group home.'

Susie was in foster care for eight years, explaining her mom is bipolar and found it hard to get a job.

Susie said when it comes to new clients coming to her for a message, she always recommends they start off with a nuru massage as an 'icebreaker'

Susie said she didn't transition into 'full service' sex work until she broke up with her first boyfriend when she was 23

Susie was 12 when she moved back in with her mom - but it was relatively short lived.

Her mother was dating an 'older guy' and she soon started noticing some strange things happening.

'Like my underwear started going missing and there was weird s**t going on and I didn't feel comfortable,' she recalled.

'So I told my high school counselor I was like "hey I want to go back to my foster mom I don't feel comfortable here," and I went back into the system.'

Susie still has a somewhat tenuous relationship with her mom.

'She doesn't take accountability,' she explained. 'And I just want her to take accountability just be like "I f**ked up and I'm sorry."' 

Susie's difficult younger life continued to be complicated, revealing she got pregnant at 18, and subsequently had an abortion.

She then went back to live with her mom and rekindle things - which didn't end well, and she was once again living by herself.

The escort had originally gone to college to study hospitality when she was still in foster care, but had to drop out to support herself and foster mother financially.

It was around this time Susie started to dabble in sex work, working out of home at the start after a friend helped her get started.  

'I posted up an ad, it was free at the time, and my phone was going off the hook and I was like "oh s**t,"' she recalled. 

Susie continued: 'At that time I was only doing massages, so I was charging $300 for the hour, and I would have lingerie on. If they wanted me to be naked I would charge more, if they wanted other fetishes I charged more.'

She said she didn't transition into 'full service' sex work until she broke up with her first boyfriend when she was 23.

The escort, who is now dating a transgender female who sometimes works with her, now offers her services independently as well as in a brothel - saying she prefers independent work so she doesn't have to hand over 50 per cent of her earnings.

Susie also shared her number one rule of sex work - which is to always use protection. 

'Don't do anything raw with any client,' she urged. 'I don't even kiss my clients in the mouth - I don't know where your mouth's been.'

Susie says she sells an 'experience,' describing herself as a 'sensual dom.'

'I'm a dominant provider I like to take control but I'm not going to beat the s**t out of you unless you pay me a lot of money,' she added.

According to Susie, one of her main clientele groups are Hasidic Jewish men.

'They're super kinky and all of them want to get peed on,' she claimed. 

Susie tried not to see too many clients a day, seeing a maximum of three a day, as she lives in a nice building and doesn't want to draw attention to her work by different people coming in and out.

She charges $600 for an hour for a nuru massage - which doesn't include sex - which is 'body to body' and includes 'mutual touching' if she keeps her underwear on.

'If they want GFE [a girlfriend experience] I charge $1,600 on top of the $600,' she shared.

Susie described a particularly 'scary' situation she had with a client once, saying it was when she was just starting out and she wasn't asking for deposits or verifying ID beforehand.

'He's like, "so we're doing full service right?" and I was like, "no we're not and we didn't agree on that over the phone,"' she said.

The man resisted giving her the money, and pushed her against the wall.

'Thank god I had somebody there in the house with me, and I yelled out for her,' she recounted. 'He choked me and put me against the wall and it was a whole thing.'

'That experience opened up my eyes. Now I know like never again to let anybody into my home without verification and deposit,' she pointed out.

'I'm very thankful for that experience - it could have gone way worse. The guy could have had a gun, a knife - thank God it didn't get to that point.'