Research doesn't always go the way we plan, though. Back in the mid-90s I was writing a sci-fi novel set three hundred years in the future when sex work would be legal and respected. In order to give my character, Jazmine, an authentic voice, I travelled to Nevada to interview a sex worker in a legal brothel.
THE CYNGLISH BEAT: Riding the Bus
"Spending more time with strangers travelling to and from work than with our own families before and after, work.
Strangers who twitch and swear and spit and shove, behaving better than the people we love to love, from below or above,
Reeking of solvents or bathed in Old Spice or new Axe or that industrial-strength Brut left over from Christmas 1979."
The Tao of Tim 