Motherhood Changed the Way I Do Sex Work

As a mother, I became more compassionate toward my clients — and also more sexual.

Emme Witt-Eden
Sensual: An Erotic Life
6 min readApr 19, 2021

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Becoming a mother changes everything in a woman’s life. It changes how she interacts with other people. It changes how she interacts with herself. It changes her sexuality for the good or the bad. So, of course, motherhood would have a bearing on how I do sex work — only probably not in the way you might expect.

Yes, I became more nurturing of my clients after becoming a mother. But I also became more sexual.

I was less interested in my clients’ pleasure before I became a mother.

Before I settled down and had children, I was a jet-setting dominatrix. I didn’t have a care in the world. I came and went as I pleased and was having the time of my life.

In that era, I engaged in a lot of heavy BDSM play as a domme. Partly, this meant doing whatever I wanted to my clients in session. No, I never engaged in any activities that weren’t expressly agreed on beforehand. However, as I was domming exclusively at that point, I’d say I was a very cruel domme.

I would frequently carry out torture sessions where I whipped and paddled my clients until their skin bruised, pierced their…

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Emme Witt-Eden
Sensual: An Erotic Life

Sex, relationships, and culture writer. Kink expert. Author of Confessions of a Middle-Aged F-Girl. emmewitt.com