Glamorous ex-escort to the 1% reveals her surprising sex secrets - and the word upper-class men use instead of 'horny'

A former sex worker who attended to the top one percent revealed her surprising sex secrets and how upper class men disguise hiring a sex worker. 

Charlotte Shane spent two decades offering her body up to wealthy men in hotels and has now written about her experience in her memoir called An Honest Woman, which dropped today. 

Shane got into the controversial industry in the early 2010s because she wanted the beauty and fame that came with it.  

'I became a sex worker because I suspected, and hoped, it would be this way: a private, minor form of celebrity. An alternate version of myself,' an excerpt of her memoir, published in the Wall Street Journal, said.  

She also let readers in on how high-powered men conduct business with sex workers, from meeting in hotels, dressing to impress, and using secret coded language. 

'It helped that illegality-induced euphemisms tipped the dialogue into affectation,' she wrote. '"Intrigued" meant horny, "visit" or "spend time with" meant have sex with, "friend" meant repeat customer.

Charlotte Shane spent two decades offering up her body to wealthy men in hotels and has now written about the experience in her memoir An Honest Woman, which dropped today

'I became a sex worker because I suspected, and hoped, it would be this way: a private, minor form of celebrity. An alternate version of myself,' an excerpt of her memoir said 

'As in: I’m intrigued by your website. I would love to visit with you for two hours on Thursday evening in the hope of becoming good friends.'

Shane recalled one of her visits with a man named Roger when she was 28 years old and he was 54. She met the litigator at the Marriott in Downtown DC, where she arrived 12 hours early by mistake, dressed in a blue tailored shift dress that was meant to invoke 'conventional business attire' without outright denying her vocation. 

She wanted to feel power, to show that she 'deserved to be there' and was 'invited' to the hotel. 

After every encounter - unless they were simply men she wouldn't engage with again - she'd send an email, thanking them for the 'wonderful evening' and telling them she hoped to see them again soon. 

She also let readers in on how high-powered men conduct business with sex workers, from meeting in hotels, dressing to impress, and using secret coded language. 'Intrigued' meant 'horny' and 'friend' meant 'repeat customer'

She'd often receive emails back from men begging her for more, as Roger had after their third date. But she received the sentiment often, all the way from single to divorced to men decades older than her, she said in the excerpt.  

She revealed in a July 10 blog post that she quit sex work due to the way that escorts have to 'market' themselves. 

'These days sex workers, even in-person workers without OnlyFans accounts, have to operate like influencers in order to advertise and, for me, that extracts too much regardless of the compensation,' she wrote. 

In the WSJ excerpt, she revealed how different marketing truly was. Websites in the early 2010s featured stock images and champagne and about me sections listed educational degrees and language fluencies. 

When she was setting up her own, she worried she wouldn't be able to charge as much as other women because she didn't have as many accolades. Years later, she would find out most women lied about their backgrounds. 

 She revealed that she quit sex work the way that escorts have to 'market' themselves. She said: 'These days sex workers, even in-person workers without OnlyFans accounts, have to operate like influencers in order to advertise.'

 Shane, pictured here after having left the sex work industry, says she wants to 'inspire its readers to love more thoughtfully, to love better.'

When Shane built her website, she 'wrote about my deficiencies' as she was 'too afraid of being caught in a lie to pretend otherwise.' 

She just hoped none of her clients were ever need her to speak French or know how to board a private jet, she said in the excerpt.  

Ultimately, what she wants people to take away from her story is to 'inspire its readers to love more thoughtfully, to love better,' she wrote in a July 10 blog post.