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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Music Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Welcome, Brooke, to Hard Knocks.

I'm really, really excited to talk to you.

Obviously, we're inspired by your new book, Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge,

which is all about exposing the realities of the sugar babying industry.

And I don't know, I mean, this is something that I'm, like, personally really quite curious about because I think, like, any young woman who is attractive and also has bills to pay, the thought has

gone through my mind, as I think it's gone through many young women's minds, mostly because

it was the idea wasn't actually something that I, like, thought of.

It was more someone approached me,

a male person approached me and said, hey, have you ever thought about selling your body

for sex basically is how it comes out? And it's always like this, or I don't know, maybe it's not always, but the way that

I was first approached by someone was a back when there were video stores, so to age myself,

I went to a video store and the person behind the counter at the video store was like,

hey, have you ever considered doing softcore

porn? And I was like, no, I have not. And they were like, well, it's really good money. It's like,

you know, all you have to do is take a shower and you walk away with $2,000. And as someone who was in

college and had, you know, two different jobs, that sounded really nice for a split

second. And obviously, like, I'm glad to this day that I didn't go through with that sort of

invitation. But I think that that invitation is sort of eerily out there. And so, yeah, let's just talk about it as someone who's like, been there,

not necessarily done a soft court, you know, shower scene, but like been in certain kinds of

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