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Luxury sex worker reveals the staggering amount of money she received after being hired for one week
A luxury sex worker and adult star has revealed the astoundingly lucrative sum she once received from an incredibly wealthy client.
During an interview with ABC Australia, Katija Cortez opened up about some of her most high-paying bookings, explaining how much certain clients are prepared to spend for her company.
Away from her OnlyFans content, the model also offers escort services, where she deals with customers who spend life-changing amounts of money.
Sex worker reveals the largest sum of money she has received from a customer
Asked about the biggest amount of money she had received over a short period, Cortez revealed: "The most a client has spent on me in a short period of time was I did get booked for one week, and he paid 75 grand for that one week."
Reflecting on the sum, she admitted: "Just. Yeah, it's like that. Like it was nothing. It's crazy."
However, Cortez was keen to stress that her earnings are far from representative of the wider sex work industry, revealing that she belongs to an extremely small group of high earners.
"But the average sex worker isn't making millions of dollars a year," she admitted.
"That's like the top, top one per cent. Not every job people are making, you know, you have people making lots of money."
She added: "And then there's probably people doing a similar job or the same job and making less money."
While acknowledging that the industry had been financially rewarding for her, Cortez insisted her experience should not be viewed as typical.
"It's been good to me, but yeah, I would say that I'm definitely in like the top per cent, and that's definitely not the average experience of a sex worker," she explained.
She also suggested that social media played a significant role in creating unrealistic expectations about how much sex workers earn.
"Generally, the only sex workers that people are hearing or seeing are ones with big social media followers that are probably making lots of money," she said.
During the interview, Cortez also discussed the realities of her work and how quickly she had become accustomed to being intimate with different clients.
"It's funny how quickly you get used to having sex with strangers. Am I allowed to say sex on here?" she joked.
She revealed that friends sometimes struggle to understand how she can regularly be intimate with different men.
"Sometimes I'll have friends being like, 'Isn't it weird seeing all different penises, like, all the time?' And I'm like, 'It's just a job to me now,'" she explained.
Cortez also challenged what she described as a common misconception about men who pay for sex work, arguing that many are looking for considerably more than a brief sexual encounter.
"A common misconception about clients that see sex workers is that they're just booking us for a quick shag, which couldn't be further from the truth," she claimed.
"If a guy wants just a quick shag, he's not going to be booking me for an overnight or a dinner date and spending like crazy amounts of money and buying me presents just for that."
"Like, you could go to a brothel and get a quick shag for like one tenth of the price, right?" she added.
The adult star reveals who her customers are
According to Cortez, her clientele also comes from a surprisingly broad range of professional backgrounds, challenging stereotypes about the type of men who pay for companionship.
"The kind of guys seeing sex workers, it's literally everyone," she revealed.
"Like it's doctors, it's lawyers, it's school principals. It's not just like, you know, random seedy guys on a night out. It is just any guy looking for companionship."
"Clients booking like escorts and like, you know, doing the longer dates, and stuff, they are wanting like a simulated relationship," Cortez explained.
"I guess it's part of, like, the male loneliness epidemic, right?"
She suggested that changing dating habits and a lack of meaningful connections were encouraging more men to seek companionship through sex workers.
"A lot of men are not really dating much anymore, but they still want that connection. And a lot of them are finding it in sex workers," she said.
"We are literally replacing girlfriends for these men."
Cortez also claimed that younger men were increasingly turning to her for experiences that went beyond physical intimacy, with some paying to spend time together as though they were in a traditional relationship.
"I have a lot of young clients and they are spending money on me and hanging out with me as their girlfriend because the younger generation just aren't going out," she revealed.
She added that some younger clients viewed paying for an escort as a simpler alternative to navigating a conventional relationship.
"They think that this is easier. All of a sudden an escort is cheaper than having a girlfriend. Crazy, right? But yeah, a lot of them say that," she added.