Sexual History Interview: Critique and Reactions
This paper concerns an interview that I conducted with a 27-year-old ex-escort. This individual was a college educated female who will be given the name Samantha, as an alias for the purposes of this paper. I was able to make initial contact with Samantha through a range of referrals from friends of some of my colleagues. Samantha was willing to talk to me, though only if I was able to provide her with the utmost privacy and confidentiality. Conducting the interview was fascinating, as I had never met a member of the sex industry. I was worried that perhaps I might say something that she considered naive or that she would be able to see clearly that I was new at the task of interviewing someone about their sexual history. Samantha came from a two-parent middle-class home, and was not raised under any particular religion, though she did say that she believed in God.
We met in a very dimly lit bar in a town that was openly acknowledged as being a place where neither of us lived. When I arrived at the bar, I definitely felt like I was in a movie. It felt like a lonely, dusty and mostly ramshackle cowboy bar from the 1980s. This made me feel even more nervous about the interview, because I had heard that escorts could sometimes be tough, withering people and that they sometimes were unfriendly to other women. This turned out to not be true. She was very polite but had firm boundaries up.
The interview then commenced with me asking her direct, though sensitively worded questions about her sexual history. The first question I asked pertained to the age that she lost her virginity. She said she lost her virginity at age 17 to her boyfriend at the time. Her answer somewhat surprised me; I guess I had thought that she would have lost her virginity at a much younger age, as she was someone who was working in the sex industry....
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