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Daniels worked in the corporate world before getting into escorting for the money. "I think there's a misconception that women in the business are all sexually louche, and that we're damaged. When I started I'd had sex with eight people." In high school, she could have been voted least likely to become a call girl. "Most people always said I looked like a librarian."
The word librarian makes me think. Where have all the female geeks gone in the past before they were allowed into physics? A lot of them ended up working in libraries, building up the stereotype of the socially awkward bookworm spinster librarian.
If people said she looked like a librarian, maybe they were really saying she acted like she had Asperger's. Hmm.
Okay now this makes me wonder whether there could be an Asperger's component to upper middle class prostitution, where the women are not motivated by a need to escape poverty, and not entrapped by global organized crime syndicates.
Aspies often do not understand social conventions regarding sex that neurotypical accept without question, and they sometimes they can develop unrealistic expectations about their abilities to defy social convention without getting hurt or hurting others.
David Brooks wrote a column that more or less explained Eliot Spitzer's behavior as stemming from his inability to relate other human beings socially without the structure of professional or academic rank to hold him up. Basically, he accused Spitzer of having Asperger's traits that led to his consorting with hookers instead of obeying social convention and bonding deeply and intimately with his own wife.
It's interesting. Maybe someone should do a study.
