[1] While studying she held several jobs including childcare, cleaning, newspaper distribution and posing for erotic pictures.
[3] In 2009, while working as a bar hostess, Merteuil realized that she could become a sex worker to finance her studies,[4] and decided to become an escort.
[1] She claimed this was a "constrained" choice in an article in Le Monde (25 November 2011), preferring "to be an escort rather than working in a factory for 40 hours a week", adding that "people who have extremely difficult days working in construction or in the hospitality industry would no doubt also say that they also made a forced choice.
and Les Chiennes de garde of being "gentrified", and castigated these "ambassadors of liberty" for imposing their "own conception of dignity" on others.
[14] In February 2015, during the Affaire du Carlton de Lille trial, she expressed regret that the case was not centered "on the seriousness of the violence in certain actions.