A male real estate agent based in the eastern suburbs told The Sun Herald that a number of his female clients used sex websites without their husbands' knowledge to "earn Botox money." "It's very easy to hide the money they are earning on nice clothes, shoes, or a lavish lifestyle. It's like a secret little Sydney society of Stepford Wives seeking arrangements with men other than their husbands," he said. "When you earn $28 an hour working at Just Jeans you can see the appeal, especially when many men and women just consider this as like a 'date on the side'. They don't see it as sex work, they see it as an arrangement. "I'd heard on the rumour mill this was happening but it's bigger than I thought...you learn a lot about the private arrangements of many couples when you go behind closed doors in the Sydney real estate world," he said. A retired sex worker and mother from Maroubra known as Jacinta, who worked in sex clubs in Surry Hills and Bondi Junction between the age of 24 and 40, said it was very common to work with other mothers of young children.

"When I worked in one sex club at Bondi Junction the receptionist did the linen. She would offer to iron school uniforms as well, and many of my colleagues would be checking their phones at around 3 pm to be sure their children were being picked up from school," Jacinta said. "Many had husbands who didn't know what they were doing." The eastern suburbs has been identified as the Sydney region with the highest concentration of 'Sugar Daddies' listed on seekingarrangement, a web site which offers "arrangements" from escort services through to sex. The Kastle Bondage Parlour. Credit:Steven Siewert Surry Hills is the suburb with the most men (225) signed up to the site, followed by Bellevue Hill with 174 Sugar Daddies and Vaucluse with 116, according to the website founded by MIT graduate Brandon Wade in San Francisco in 2006.

"Alternative relationships are warranted in the new age of romance, and individuals are growing more interested in non-traditional dating.... in a rousing city like Sydney, it’s no wonder why Sugar Relationships are on the rise," a spokesperson for the website said. While the world's largest Sugar Dating site offers premium access for university students or anyone with a .edu email address to attract young women seeking liaisons with older men, a growing number of users are more mature women with children, subscribers said. "You can offer everything from full sexual services through to escorts, but because no nude photos are allowed, it gives women more control over what they can negotiate with the client and anonymity," the 46-year-old eastern suburbs mother who has used this site said. "You get diplomats wanting a guide to Sydney for the day through to others who want full sexual services." Jacinta, the former sex worker, said a large number of subscribers to the site are sex workers looking to expand their client base. She said this was partly due to the closure of a large number of bondage parlours like Salon Kitty's in Surry Hills, once known as the most "famous bondage parlour in the Southern hemisphere."