These topics aggregate related items in the unpublished collections on to one page, e. Date: 12, 19 July - 12 Jul - 19 Jul From: Selling sex - the New Zealand sex industry oral history project.
By: Brennan, Mary Catherine, Reference: OHInt Description: Interview with Mary Brennan, born in Morrinsville in Refers to her family background, Catholic upbringing, and childhood in Eastbourne. Talks about her schooling and becoming a hippie after she left school. Discusses working in hotels in Auckland, Wellington and London. Mentions returning to New Zealand, managing a restaurant in Auckland and then setting up a business in Taranaki. Talks about taking a reception job at the Mayfair Massage Parlour in Wellington in and leaving after three weeks when she got a job at a larger parlour.
Refers to quickly becoming manager of the city's two biggest brothels. Mentions writing training manuals, improving performance, training receptionists and hiring staff. Discusses the variety of women who work in the sex industry. Describes the brothels where she worked, introducing an inclusive charge, outcalls and safety before mobile phones were common. Talks about relations with the police and the girls having to register in the police book before law reform.
Comments that sex workers are targeteed by drug dealers. Comments on employment status and tax liability in the sex industry before and after law reform. Discusses working in the Wairarapa for a period, then setting up a dominatrix business in , taking time to make it viable, and setting up a high-class escort website. Discusses her parallel full service business, operating on an appointments only basis, staff recruitment and training, and the girls caring about the business and premises.
Comments that she is really a businesswoman rather than a sex worker and has always been open about her work. Reflects on her work in the industry, changing attitudes in society but secrecy and the stigma remaining. Search dates: - Some features of our website won't work with Internet Explorer.
