S2 Ep4: Annabelle & Bella
Sex Power Money with Sara Pascoe
Sara Pascoe
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Bella and Annabelle met in 2018 on a paid foursome and realised that they had a lot more in common than their jobs in the sex industry. As well as being full service sex workers, offering sessions ranging from The Girlfriend Experience to fetish and BDSM scenes, they are both academics, writers and proudly queer women, who share an interest in the way sex work intersects with these parts of their lives. This led to the creation of their Instagram account Whores' Handbags (@whores_handbags), where they document the everyday realities of selling sex, from being doubly penetrated on the heaviest day of your period to those smaller hurdles such as admin, thrush and making time for your cat. Having found the project therapeutic and relatable for sex workers, as well as insightful and educational to allies, Bella and Annabelle are working on transforming their platform into a website to host writing, zines and other types of content. Follow @whores_handbags for more to come!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello my name's Sarah Pasco and this is episode 4 of the Sex Power Money |
| 0:11.7 | podcast. This week I'm talking to two incredibly |
| 0:15.2 | interesting people. Annabel and Bella are sex workers and they run the |
| 0:20.4 | Hors Handbags Instagram account. |
| 0:26.0 | So I wanted to start actually with your Instagram account |
| 0:30.0 | because I guess what I wanted to do is start off talking about that and why are you |
| 0:34.8 | guys set it up? We set it up basically after we worked together for the first time |
| 0:39.4 | or at least that's when we had the idea and because we just met on a booking and we went did we go for dinner |
| 0:47.6 | afterwards after that booking? No that was the second booking we did together. |
| 0:52.3 | Oh right okay oh right so it was the second booking we did together. Oh, right. |
| 0:53.4 | Oh, right. |
| 0:54.4 | So it was the second booking we did and then we went for dinner and we ended up talking about |
| 0:59.2 | all the weird stuff that we carry around with us, you know, like we're sitting there in a restaurant having |
| 1:03.7 | dinner together, but in our bags we've got all number of sex toys and God knows what else. |
| 1:08.9 | So we just decided that it would be funny at first I think to set up an account which shows those things but then it sort of turned a bit more |
| 1:20.7 | Therapeutic for us because you don't just carry things physically you carry a lot |
| 1:25.1 | mentally when you're moving around knowing that you've got the secret and you're |
| 1:28.6 | operating under a false name and you've just done something quite extreme so we wanted a space to |
| 1:34.7 | basically talk about that. Well that's it's because actually when you say that |
| 1:38.1 | there's so much humor in a lot of the posts but also like there's a real like a huge amount of honesty about how the person |
| 1:48.1 | is feeding that day how you might feel towards objects or experiences. |
| 1:53.0 | And is that something that feels kafartic? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sara Pascoe, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sara Pascoe and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.