‘I will need you to undress at the interview. Is that ok? I know it sounds a bit silly, but we will need to roleplay a bit.’

John is letting me know the interview process for being taken on as a cleaner by Bare Domestic, a Peterborough based cleaning agency which offers the services of naked female cleaners.

From £20-an-hour upwards, clients can book women to clean their house topless, in lingerie or entirely naked.

The number one rule, according to Bare Domestic’s website is ‘do not ask for or expect sexual services from your cleaner’.


This is reiterated on the site’s FAQ page which includes the question: ‘Can I ask for extras?’ to which there is the following response: ‘No, please don’t. Our ladies are not escorts and will be very offended if you ask.’



Responding to my undercover query about working as a naked cleaner however, John tells me about an additional service that’s offered to clients. It’s called the ‘Nude Plus’ and it costs £75-an-hour. When clients book this service, ‘you may OFFER to help them cum,’ says John via email,

‘You only offer this because they may prefer to watch you and masturbate themselves.’

According to John, I should allow two hours for my interview, so we can roleplay every aspect of the services offered.

Describing the culmination of the scenario we’re to enact, John writes: ‘Finally you ask if he minds you masturbating, as you are “so horny and need to cum”. I will watch you do that, playing the role of a client. I will not be undressed at this point, but if you are ok to go ahead, when you get near to orgasm, ask if I want to cum too, on you. At this point i would take off my trousers and probably 30 seconds later, cum on you.’

I saw the ad for Bare Domestics in the Jobs section of Craigslist, a classifieds site which has ads for everything from maths tutoring to office space. But this ad for naked cleaning wasn’t a one-off.

The Jobs section included ads placed by agencies in Kent, Essex and Brighton, all looking for women to work as naked cleaners. And it wasn’t just agencies. Across the site, there were around 30 ads placed by men in various parts of the UK, looking for women – and sometimes men – to clean their houses naked.

‘Attractive woman wanted for general cleaning in my flat near Tower Bridge. 2hrs work per week at £30 per hour. You’d need to be topless but there’ll be no contact,’ said one.

‘I am looking for a lady to come to mine once a month for an hour to clean my living room, but I want her to be naked. Nothing more than just me watching you,’ said another.

‘Woman nude cleaner for all general household duties required. Regular once or twice a week. Friendly guy. The place is not a tip. Will pay thirty five pounds an hour regular or one off. Not asking for contact just cleaning,’ wrote a man in Eastbourne.

However, some ads were clear that there would be contact.

The Bare Domestic site has been taken down after Metro.co.uk published this story (Picture: Metro.co.uk)

‘Required Female naked/skimpy outfit for once a week one bed flat cleaning and sexual relief,’ wrote a guy in Basildon.

‘I am a 49-year-old man looking for a female to clean my flat nude. I am not looking for sex, but *some touching* – details to be discussed. I am attractive and educated,’ wrote a man based in Battersea.



‘Wanted for one afternoon, a naked cleaner who also looks after my body with oils and assisted shower. I’m a mature guy who likes big boobs,’ wrote another man in Clacton.

There were many more ads along these lines and I interviewed three of the men who’d posted them.

Many look for naked cleaners or are willing to work as one entirely ethically and without any hint of abuse or pressure. But some of the testimonies tell a very different story.

The first man I spoke to was Clive*, a 56-year-old man in Oxford who advertised for, ‘a young lady to do some cleaning either nude or in her underwear’. He tells me his ideal age range is 18-25.

‘I prefer my ladies slim and petite, preferably young,’ he says.

For hoovering, dusting and ironing, Clive offers, ‘£50 if they do it in underwear and £80 if they do it nude’.

And he is clear about their duties.

‘The purpose of them being there nude is for me to watch,’ he says. ‘I wouldn’t follow them around, but if they’re ironing, I’d sit there watching.’ He adds that he may masturbate and, ‘sometimes I take it further’.

By his own admission, the cleaning itself is ‘not that important’ but he doesn’t want to book someone who actually offers sexual services.

‘I’ve had the odd escort in years gone by, but I prefer somebody who’s never done it before, who doesn’t do it for a living,’ he says.


On the day I speak to him, Clive has had a two-hour booking with a first-year student at Oxford University.

‘She said she was 20 but I think she was a bit younger than that,’ says Clive. ‘She was obviously very hard up. It’s expensive round here, and she’s looking for a part-time job, but they only pay peanuts.’

The student agreed to do the cleaning in her underwear, but Clive persuaded her to take everything off, saying, ‘oh come on, if you want the extra money!’ Once the student was naked, she started ironing Clive’s bed linen. At this point, Clive decided to take it further:

‘I was fondling her breasts and her bum,’ says Clive, ‘then one thing led to another and we had sex on the bed.’

Afterwards, Clive paid her for two hours at the naked cleaning rate. ‘She didn’t ask for any more and I never offered any,’ he says.

‘I would’ve given her a bit more if she’d asked.’

Terry* is in his early 50s and he’s hired six or seven naked cleaners over the last seven years.

Terry, who’s gay, likes to see what heterosexual men can be persuaded to do for money. He tells me his favourite is a 23-year-old who answered his Craigslist ad in 2015.

‘It started off as cleaning, then I offered him a bit of extra cash for watching him play with himself,’ he says.

‘He went quiet for a while last year – until he needed extra cash. Now we start or finish off in bed.’


I ask Terry if he thinks the guy would go to bed with him if he didn’t need the money. Terry says, ‘definitely not. He’s said as much, and he’s got a girlfriend. It’s surprising what you’ll get for £50 sometimes.’

The third man, Steve*, is in his mid-50s and he’s booked naked cleaners every two or three weeks for the last 10 years. He tells me his preferred age is mid-20s:

‘It’s nice to look at pleasant scenery – I’m not going to book a 60 year old granny,’ he says.

Advertising on Craigslist, Steve snaps up ‘students looking to make a bit more money,’ he tells me.

‘Mostly guys, a few girls, and one transsexual – I’m an equal opportunities employer!’

Steve, who tells me he is bisexual, offers £25-an-hour, ‘but that generally applies to guys. Girls are more expensive’.

He believes a naked cleaner is an open-minded cleaner:

Some companies are said to be more reputable, though often still say that clients becoming overexcited is an understandable consequence of the naked body (Picture: Media Wales)

‘You won’t get many nuns or Mary Whitehouses applying for the job!,’ he says. This is important to Steve because he likes to be naked himself, and, he’s ‘a single guy, so if they come across a porn DVD lying on the table, they’re not going to go, “meurgh-erugh”,’ he says, making a mock-crying noise.

Steve doesn’t masturbate while watching, and wouldn’t touch, ‘unless invited’ by the cleaner.

‘That’s part of the ground rules I try and sort out beforehand,’ he says. ‘If there’s a physical attraction, I’ll pay for something extra.’

The majority of ads on Craigslist were looking for female cleaners, and so I spoke to three women about their experience of doing this, contacting them via their own ads on the site.

Anna*, who’s in her early 20s, has been working as naked cleaner in London for the last three years.

Originally from Europe (she declines to say where) Anna started doing it after seeing an ad on Craigslist looking for a ‘sexy cleaner’.

Although she had a job at the time, ‘it wasn’t as flexible, and the money was nowhere near as good’. Anna now cleans about four times a week.

‘If I’m in lingerie it’s £40-an-hour, topless it’s £50, and if I’m nude it’s £60,’ she says.

Nude, she admits, is the most popular option.

But it isn’t easy money. ‘I get a lot of people asking for sex which can be really frustrating when you’ve specifically said you’re not offering sex,’ she says.

Some of Anna’s clients try to touch her: ‘I tell them to get their hands off me,’ she says. ‘They act stupid, like, “oh, I forgot,” or, “sorry, you’re so pretty”.’

Echoing Clive, Anna tells me, ‘I think most of them wanted somebody to have sex with, but they didn’t want an escort.

‘Some wait until the end of the session, others will do it a few times. Sometimes they do it early on, then tell me I can go.’

Anna tends to look away when the men are masturbating ‘because I feel a bit awkward’. Looking back to her first booking she says that she was really nervous as she didn’t know what to expect.

‘I guess I was lucky the guy was nice,’ she says.

Sarah* is a 29-year-old single mum from Liverpool who was made redundant six months ago.

Finding it difficult to manage, and getting increasingly into debt, Sarah started working as a naked cleaner two weeks ago.

‘Someone joked about naked cleaning in a passing comment, and I thought, you might be joking, but I can make money from that,’ she says.

So far she’s had three bookings from an ad she placed on Craigslist. She tells me she’s stomached undressing in strangers’ houses by, ‘feeling detached from it. I go, do what’s necessary, and leave’.

And it’s that coldness that helps her get through the situation:

‘I don’t stand there and do feelings because if I think about it I won’t do it – and that’s not really an option,’ she says.

Sarah’s second client followed her round the house, trying to take pictures of her. He pestered her for sexual services and repeatedly asked her to bend over.

‘I told him I’d do it when I need to pick things up,’ she says. ‘I told him I’m here to clean.’ What if she gets a client who won’t take no for an answer?

‘If I think about that, it’ll stop me doing it,’ Sarah says.

Instead she focuses on the end goal: ‘At the start I said to them, “you have to pay me now” then I kept my handbag where I could see it,’ she says. ‘It was, “I’ve got £100 in my pocket, I can go and pay one of my bills now”.

‘I’m just trying to earn a living. I’m not claiming benefits, I’m just trying to provide for myself and my child.’

Nancy* came to the UK from Italy in July last year, initially working as an au pair in Yorkshire, before moving to Brighton, where she worked as a cleaner for £8-an-hour. She made ends meet by getting a job in a lap dancing club, which is where she got the idea to offer her services as a ‘sexy cleaner’. Nancy now earns £20 to £50-an-hour for cleaning, and charges an additional £20 if the customer wants a lap dance. She advertises on Craigslist because ‘I know there are a lot of weird people. They pay more for something other people will never pay for’.

Nancy’s clients are aged between 40 and 50 years old.

‘Some are lonely, and some have mental issues – one of them told me he’s never had a girlfriend,’ she says.

Nancy tells her clients they can’t touch her, but, ‘people sometimes ask for sex, and I repeat that I am a stripper, not a prostitute. If they want a prostitute, they can pay a prostitute, even cheaper and she give them sex.’ Instead, Nancy’s customers masturbate while they watch her. She’s 21.

‘I don’t have to touch them, I don’t have to watch them, just a guy is doing that while I clean,’ she says.

Craigslist has a history of hosting controversial ads. In 2009, it caved to pressure to remove its Erotic Services category, which critics called a front for prostitution.

It was replaced with an Adult Services category, which was closed down for similar reasons in 2010. More recently, a US sex trafficking bill led to Craigslist removing its Personals section from the US site in March, and the UK site earlier this month. The bill makes websites more accountable for ads placed by users, so the rationale was to remove ads for sexual services, which by extension may be linked to trafficking.

A statement posted on Craigslist says, ‘Any tool or service can be misused.

‘We can’t take such risk without jeopardizing all our other services, so we are regretfully taking craigslist personals offline.’

But the personal ads are not the only section of Craigslist in which sexual services are offered and sought. It seems the Personals have simply been made a scapegoat, sacrificed in an empty gesture, while ads for sexual services in the name of naked cleaning continue to thrive in other sections of the site.

We’ve asked Bare Domestics if it thinks it is taking advantage of vulnerable people and pressuring them into things they are not comfortable with because they need to pay the bills.

So far, they have declined to comment.

*The names of the cleaners and the men who hired them have been changed. Craigslist has also been contacted for further comment.

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