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Why I Do What I Do is an original AsiaOne series where we showcase people with uncommon professions and what it takes to get there.
“You’re a sex coach, I guess you have sex with your clients.”
This is just one of the many reactions that Martha Tara Lee has faced in her 10-year career as a clinical sexologist and relationship counsellor.
Besides being mistaken for a sex worker, she’s been slut-shamed, harassed and has even been masturbated to over the phone by a prospective “client”.
But she has learnt to take the harassment in her stride in conservative Singapore, where such a profession would still be considered left of centre.
“It is different, outside of Asia. People actually respect what I do more, they make fewer jokes and they are more respectful, than at home,” says the former PR practitioner, who shrugged off a corporate job to embark on an entirely different career trajectory.
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