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"  Australian author Holly Hill had been a professional psychologist before she left her career behind \u2014 and spent six months being a kept woman. After placing an Internet ad that described her as a 35-year-old attractive and well-educated woman who was seeking a sugar daddy, she went through four wealthy lovers \u2014 all of whom were cool with her demands for a weekly allowance of at least $1,000. In Marie Claire&amp;#039;s August issue, Hills talks about her unusual sexual lifestyle \u2014 and the new memoir, Sugarbabe, that she wrote about it.  Should You Become a Sugar Girl?  While reading the interview, I was thinking, &amp;quot;1,000 bucks a week sounds pretty good to me!&amp;quot; But could I actually deal with exchanging sex and companionship for money that way? Some people would call it prostitution \u2014 although I think when a woman has a real choice about whether or not she wants to do something like that \u2014 when she&amp;#039;s not forced into it by some abusive pimp \u2014 it becomes a very different scenario. It&amp;#039;s less about humiliation and violence, I&amp;#039;d imagine, than about opulence (in the same way that bondage isn&amp;#039;t about degradation as much as it&amp;#039;s about playing out of roles and fantasies in a safe space). And Hill claims what she did was not that much different from being a stay-at-home wife with a credit card. (Some of you may disagree. I may, too.) &amp;quot;We all sell ourselves \u2014 whether it&amp;#039;s our bodies, our brawn, or our minds,&amp;quot; she notes.  Think this kind of thing is for you? Then Hill has some interesting pointers: 1. Don&amp;#039;t worry that you&amp;#039;re not young enough. Hill says she thinks 40 is an ideal age. &amp;quot;Most men who can afford to keep a woman are older than that,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;And the last thing they want a waiter to say is, &amp;#039;Oh, you&amp;#039;ve brought your daughter! How sweet.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; 2. Don&amp;#039;t worry about looking like a model. It&amp;#039;s not just the \u00FCber-beautiful who can do this kind of thing. Just be sexy and confident, Hill says. (After reading that bit, I immediately flipped the page to check out Hill&amp;#039;s pic, assuming she&amp;#039;d be a hypocritical knockout. But no ... She&amp;#039;s cute, but she&amp;#039;s not the next Angelina Jolie.)  3. Don&amp;#039;t worry about looking like a porn star ... down there. Hill points out that a lot of older dudes are shocked by full-on bush nudity. &amp;quot;Stick to a classic bikini wax,&amp;quot; she says.  4. Be cool and self-assured ... because many sugar daddies will be nervous at first, especially if they haven&amp;#039;t done this kind of thing before. 5. Don&amp;#039;t take it personally if you get dumped. Mr. Warbucks may very well throw you over after a month or two. Hill says most daddies think of the arrangement as a treat for themselves \u2014 and you can only enjoy a treat for so long before it gets old. 6. Be honest \u2014 even if the man has a wife. Hill claims there are plenty of women out there who will agree to let their husbands have a mistress for a while \u2014 and she suggests letting your daddy know up-front that you don&amp;#039;t want to be involved with deceiving anyone \u2014 that you only want to be with a guy who has his wife&amp;#039;s approval. (Do you think that sounds unrealistic, or unbelievable? I wonder if there aren&amp;#039;t also unmarried men looking for women to be their spoiled mistresses. I imagine there are.) Now, cCould I, Maura Kelly, become a sugar girl? I really don&amp;#039;t think so, as much as the money and adventure do sound intriguing, though perhaps I&amp;#039;m being naive? Hell, I get awkward about letting a guy buy me dinner if I&amp;#039;m not over the moon for him; I feel phony, deceitful, and uncomfortable. Plus, I&amp;#039;m still a cradle-robber, like it or not; I have trouble &amp;quot;getting wood,&amp;quot; if you will, when a dude looks old \u2014 when he&amp;#039;s balding, has a spare tire, or even when I can see the little gray hairs growing in along his sideburns. I know it&amp;#039;s not fair, but it&amp;#039;s the truth. Maybe someday, I&amp;#039;ll get over it. Till then ... I&amp;#039;ll probably be right here, living flirtatiously. Sigh. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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