Meet the “holistic” sex worker who left her job as a sales executive to help people with disabilities and mental illnesses experience intimacy.
Charlie Stevens, 41, has worked in the sex industry for five years and specialises in treating people with trauma and disabilities.
Her clients, many of whom are unable to connect or have physical relationships, charge $154 for an hour-long session.
Charlie Stevens gave up her job in sales to help people with disabilities and mental illnesses experience intimacy. Charlie Stevens / SWNS
From sensual massages to naked cuddling and occasionally full service, Charlie says it’s a chance for people to “just be themselves.”
Charlie’s clients range from military veterans to people with mental and physical disabilities to those suffering from mental health-related illnesses.
She says she has seen people who had never been touched before and has had people cry in her arms for up to an hour.
Charlie says that when she works as a holistic sex worker, “everyone” sees beauty.
Charlie, from South Yorkshire, said: “I’m very empathetic and really good at putting people at ease.
“I have a huge passion for helping people who don’t have access to standard physical and emotional relationships.
“We see people who are physically challenged and cannot interact with local people.
“It’s not just about the sex, it’s about the experience with a professional in a beautiful, purpose-designed space.
Charlie’s clients range from military veterans to people with mental and physical disabilities to those suffering from mental illness. Charlie Stevens / SWNS
“They come to me and I offer a sensual touch, a holistic touch. I offer a sensual message that is very therapeutic, very calming, relaxing, erotic yet very soothing and very connecting between two people.”
Charlie quit her job in sales to work as a holistic sex worker, which she says “gives people a chance to unload their burdens”.
She said: “It’s a place for people to come and be themselves, and have a chance to let go of their burdens, whether that’s trauma or forgetting about disabilities.”
“Sometimes it’s the first time someone strokes your face.
“Many men in our society are anxious and traumatised and male suicide is at an all-time high.
“Some grieving men have cried in my arms for up to an hour. It’s about creating a completely safe space.”
Charlie says his job has brought him some problems, including being barred from entering the United States for “crimes of moral turpitude.”
She was due to meet family she had never met before in the US in September 2022.
After getting his work approved through his ESTA form, Charlie boarded a flight to the US, only to be confronted by TSA officials upon landing.
She said: “They took me into a room and asked me to tell them more about my work.
“They come to me and I offer a sensual touch, a holistic touch. I offer a sensual message that is very therapeutic, very calming, relaxing, erotic yet very soothing and very connecting between two people,” she said. Charlie Stevens/SWNS
“I was searched, my passport taken, none of my belongings were touched, I was warned and questioned, my DNA was taken, my advert was displayed and I was told I would be charged with ‘more serious crimes’.
“I was in shock and couldn’t believe it.
“I had a suitcase full of gifts for my family, but they told me that because of my profession I was banned from entering the US for 10 years.
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“The official U.S. definition of prostitution is promiscuous sexual intercourse for profit or financial gain.”
“The only recourse I have is that I was informed, or so I thought, that I could apply for a tourist visa and a waiver of entry refusal.
“Women convicted of prostitution within 10 years of the original ban will be denied entry.”
“So as long as I continue this job, I’m banned.”
After months of negotiations, Charlie finally managed to get a specialist lawyer, Molly Cohen, from the American Sex Workers Project, to take on her case pro bono.
She compiled letters of reference and documents proving her intention to return to Britain before paying for a US-based lawyer to fly her to Britain for a meeting at the US embassy.
But she claims her complaint was dismissed and she was asked to leave after just minutes.
She said: “It was another humiliating experience, another humiliating experience. It was all over in less than two minutes. It was a shocking experience for me.”
“You can reapply, but it will probably come to the same result.
“I just want to go and see my family over there.
“My partner also lives in the US so I can never see her in her home country.
“Whoever it is, I want to make sure they don’t go through the same trauma that I did.”
A US embassy spokesman said: “Visa records are confidential under US law so we cannot discuss the details of individual cases.”