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SEX sells. Nobody understands that better than Australia’s most recognisable escort, the highly paid Amanda Goff.

The former journalist copped a huge amount of abuse when she revealed her double life, as Samantha X, a high class escort.

Walking away from a successful career in the media, Ms Goff also found the relationship with her parents strained, when they could not reconcile the idea that the “canteen mum” was making as much as $6000 a night to pleasure married men.

Her ex-husband and Sydney banker David Basha called her “a disgrace”. He said he was worried about their kids.

In the press and on social media she was described as “delusional”, “selfish” and “disgusting”.

But Ms Goff said outing herself was worth it. She is now cashing in, and says she’s never been happier.

Ten months on, the 41-year-old says the criticism is water off a duck’s back. But she also says she’s ready to give it all up — at least, the sex with strangers part.

Instead, Ms Goff has started a relationship and is launching her own elite call girl agency. She says it will change what it means to be a call girl one woman at a time.

“I don’t care if they’ve got fake boobs or cellulite, I care about whether they are educated, whether they are compassionate, and whether they genuinely like the company of men,” she told news.com.au.

Women from all over the country are flying to Sydney on Tuesday to meet with Ms Goff. She is hiring 10 women and calling her business ‘Samantha X Angels’. Among the candidates are real estate agents and accountants and most are single mums, but one potential employee is married.

She says a married couple are flying in from Canberra and the husband is “fully supportive”. A 60-year-old woman is also interviewing for one of the jobs.

Ms Goff says her days working as an escort from a up-scale apartment in the Sydney CBD taught her that men want women who can hold a conversation, not women who look like supermodels.

She is so confident of that fact that she has not looked at a single photograph of the women applying for the agency.

“These are intelligent women and it’s not about how you look. Be the best you can be, obviously, but we underestimate men as a whole.

“What they’re really craving is intimacy and romance”.

Ms Goff, now the sex editor of Penthouse magazine, said she had a client fly down to Sydney from Brisbane recently to spend a night with her. But the pair did not have sex. Instead they watched a movie and ordered room service.

In her book, titled Hooked: The Salacious Secrets of Samantha X, Ms Goff says she could’ve made a million dollars if she honoured every request she received after coming out.

But she admits her time as an escort is coming to an end.

“My lease expired on my unit in the city, and I decided not to renew it,” she says in her book.

“I felt sad as I packed up — my stockings draped over chairs, my pearl necklace hanging over the bed post. When I closed the door for the final time, I knew it symbolised the end of something.”

But it also symbolised the beginning of something new. She says she’s been inundated with requests from women who were inspired by her story.

“For some reason, my story has triggered something. I think the fact that I’m educated, professional, normal, that’s challenged a lot of people’s perceptions about what it means to work in this industry.

“A lot of people have contacted me saying ‘thank you for being honest’, I want to do it too’. I can’t cope with the amount of emails from people from all over the world. They’re women who’ve flirted with the idea of (becoming a call girl) and realised it’s not necessarily what

they first thought.”

She says she hasn’t turned her back on being an escort and still sees the occasional client. But it’s nothing like it was when she was working nights in an apartment and working days in the school canteen making lunches.

“I will see a select few,” she told news.com.au.

“I’m not working in Sydney anymore. I’ve met someone so I’d like to have a normal relationship. I crave just a normal night with a normal boyfriend. My escorting days are coming to an end.”

Not everything has changed since she revealed herself as Samantha X. She’s still a regular mum and her kids don’t think of her any differently. But they don’t understand the full story either.

“They know mummy is a writer and has written a book about sex and that mummy has another job.

“For them there’s no feeling that they’re not being told something. One day when they’re old enough I’ll google my name with them. There’s no family secrets. I’ll have that conversation with them. What’s really important is that I never act ashamed of it.”

That’s a message she’ll pass along to the women she employs.

“I am in the business of empowering women, not exploiting them.”

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