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12 'Kept Women' Reveal What Life Is Like Analysis

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“12 ‘Kept Women’ Reveal What Their Life is Like” by “Jessica Winters,2015” is an online list on what different mistresses life is like having an affair with husbands. Kept women is a classification of mistresses who gets paid huge amounts of money 1. Life is easier as a Mistress Winters life is easier being a mistress, she doesn’t have to be troubled that the husband is cheating on her, because she is not the wife in the affair. In exchange with having sex with the husband once a week, she is given a free apartment with all the everyday expenditure funded. 2. Whose being degraded here? In the expenses of being a mistress, and them knowing what she do, she had to unfriend many of her friends because they think she was degrading herself, but she thought otherwise. For her she is not degrading herself because she’s not the …show more content…

Loneliest women on earth The mistress at times feels she is the loneliest women on Earth. But for her she values money and comfort more than love and monogamy does. Yes, she sometimes do feel guilty and empty inside, but that isn’t enough to make her stop. For her she’s to gorgeous to search for a real job, she’d rather work her charms while she still have some. 4. Some people call me a whore For her there is a difference between a prostitute and a mistress, selling her time doesn’t make her a prostitute, selling her labor is not being a whore, selling her dreams is not making her a prostitute, for her it’s the same as being in an office, without the office its self. The different between a mistress and a prostitute, is that she only has one client, and she’s absolutely sure that her client doesn’t have STDs.

5. You scratch my back, I’ll have sex with you. For this mistress, she looks at these affairs cynically like a capitalist – for her this is a business transaction. The husband provides her, home, her needs, her wants, anything she desires, and she will give him oral sex, and once it past the gag reflexes, it will be pure

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