A day after her tell all interview with Sunday Night former magazine journalist and mother-of-two Amanda Goff says she didn’t go public with her job as a high-class escort on a whim.
The 40-year-old, who has worked at InStyle, Prevention and New Idea magazine, revealed her secret identity of Samantha X – a sex worker charging $5,000 for a night with her in a luxury inner-Sydney apartment.
But the morning after the interview the 40-year-old seemed to have no regrets about her interview and said she has been met with mixed reactions.
“I was expecting this controversy – it’s a very emotional subject for people,” Goff told Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur on Seven’s The Morning Show.
“It brings out a lot of fears about maybe themselves and their marriages and what I wanted to stress was that only a small percentage of my clients are married.
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“I do see a disabled (sic), people who are lonely, single, you know it’s a whole range of people out there it’s not just married men.”
Goff told Sunday Night that it was the boredom of an office job that prompted a career change.
The former-journalist said she would stare out the window and “fantasise about drinking champagne in a hotel room with a man”.
One day, no longer content with wondering, the divorced mother visited a brothel and two days later she was having sex with men in exchange for money.
“I just decided to charge for something that I was doing for free anyway,” she told Sunday interviewer James Thomas.
“We meet, we talk, we have sex, I leave,” she explained.
Goff says her new job has made her a “more confident, more empowered woman” but she also says her aim is to “make men feel desired, listened to and heard”.
On the program the sex worker even went so far as to say that she’s actually making her clients “better husbands”.
“Where else are they going to get that outlet? I really do believe that in some cases I make them a happier husband,” she said.
Goff also suggested women needed to do more for their husbands.
“When you take a vow of marriage, men keep to it they provide. Women need to keep to their side to the bargain,” she said.
“I feel for men, I feel they don’t have anyone to talk to.”
Not shying away from her comments, Goff told KIIS’s Kyle and Jackie O on Monday morning that she didn’t feel like a call girl but more like “a naked therapist.”
When asked by Thomas if she “thinks her profession defines her as a parent”, Goff, who regularly volunteers in the school tuckshop, responded “I don’t think that because you’re a neurosurgeon you’re necessarily a good parent. I don’t think that if you’re a criminal you’re a bad parent.”
Goff said she doubted that her young children, aged 5 and 7, would be bullied at school.
“I don’t think it’s such a big bloody deal,” she said.
“I know what kind of mother I am, I know my kids love me, warts and all.”
But her occupation has taken a toll on her family.
Goff’s London-based parents want nothing to do with her and her estranged father reportedly emailed her, telling her “you disgust me.”
Largely the reason for Goff’s public admission was to promote her salacious kiss and tell memoir, Hooked – Secrets of a High-Class Escort.
Goff told KIIS embracing her alter ego of Samantha X has helped her see the sex industry in a whole new light.
“What I hear from men and what the sex industry is very different to what people think it is,” she said.
“I wanted to give escorts and people in the industry a voice and I wanted to give clients a voice because it’s not all rapists and paedophiles and the girls that work there aren’t all junkies and victims and losers.
“It’s an empowered job for a woman and we all have the right to live the life we want to live as long as we are not hurting anyone,” said Goff.
