Sex worker Lisa Lewis hit with vile text messages from client's partner

News.com.au

06-08-2025

A sex worker has called out a woman who inundated her with abusive text messages after discovering her partner was one of her clients, threatening to 'come for' her.
Lisa Lewis, a New Zealand woman who now lives in Australia, woke up on Monday to a string of text messages from a client's partner.
'Your [sic] dead wh*** wanna f*** my boyfriend,' one text began.
Another said: 'I'm going to come for you.
'What you can't reply sl*t Huh watch every client from now you won't know if it's me or not.'
One text went so far as to call Ms Lewis a 'home wrecking wh***'.
Ms Lewis engaged with the text messages, only to gather the client's information so she could now block him and tell the woman that she would be filing a police report. Ms Lewis did not confirm or deny that she had seen the man.
'My job is entirely legal. Threatening me is not. I will be going to the police station today to file a report,' she texted back.
Ms Lewis told news.com.au that the client had told her that he was single, but she said it was a detail many men lied about in order to make themselves feel better about hiring her services. However, at the end of the day, it wasn't her job to verify a client's relationship status.
'And that's not my problem — I'm not paid to be a marriage counsellor. Otherwise, I'd be seeing her too. The booking would go a very different way,' she said, adding it wasn't Tinder.
Ms Lewis also said, when you go to a restaurant they don't ask if you can afford an $80 steak — the same way it isn't her job to ask 'Is your partner OK with this?'
She said she was empathetic to what the woman was going through but at the end of the day, what she was doing was legal and she was simply providing a service.
This shouldn't open her up to a flurry of threats from strangers.
'Sex work will always exist. We need to make it safer for sex workers to do their job,' she said.
'No sex worker deserves to be threatened with their life or told to watch their back or told they are going to set them up with fake jobs.'
Ms Lewis hasn't been able to file a police report, as she was told she needed to do this in person, but has put an online complaint through to Crime Stoppers.
news.com.au contacted the number where the text messages came from, but a woman denied any involvement.
Ms Lewis said she was calling it out because 'if it is happening to me, it is happening to other girls'.
'Other girls will not go to police. They may be under the influence — which is not fair that they feel like they can't [because of that] — they may be discriminated against and not strong enough to deal with this,' she said.
'They may not want to go to police because their family don't know what they do, their friends don't know what they do. They don't want the backlash.
'I don't give a sh*t. As far as I'm concerned, I pay taxes. I use my real name. I've got nothing to hide. If someone wants to discriminate, that's on them.'
It's not the first instance that Ms Lewis has experienced like this. In April, she was contacted by another woman who asked for her address. Ms Lewis said she didn't see female clients — only men — and she was hit with a nasty text back.
'She replied back, 'Well f*** you. You're OK to sleep with my man and not me',' Ms Lewis told news.com.au.
It comes after Catherine DeNoire, who has managed one of the largest brothels in Europe for the last nine years, revealed the 'most stupid' ways men have been caught at the brothel is by leaving their phone location on or withdrawing large sums of money from the couple's joint account at the brothel ATM.
Ms DeNoire said there were 'bonus points' involved if the man directly transferred money from his joint account with his partner to the personal account of the sex worker he was seeing.
Ms DeNoire said there have been confrontations that have gone down inside the brothel, with the situation typically unfolding where the partner comes in, claiming she knows her husband is inside. Then, the couple will go outside and have their argument.
But, one woman demanded to see the CCTV after she found a ticket from the brothel inside her fiance's pocket.
Whether or not you deem seeing a sex worker as cheating, there is a growing trend of women — and not the cheating partners — taking the brunt of the anger. Just last week a woman named Kylie had a dramatic and emotional showdown with her husband's mistress Sophie, on the Kyle & Jackie O Show. Kylie begged Sophie to end the relationship.
Sophie, who works with the married man, appeared to already know about Kylie, stating their relationship was 'sexual' and insisting her husband 'does love you'.
But while knowingly sleeping with a married man is widely seen as morally wrong, many viewers weighed in on social media to condemn Kylie, pointing out she should be 'confronting the husband'.
The tendency to blame the 'other woman' in cases of infidelity, rather than the cheater, exposes a stark discrepancy between societal expectations on men and women, says University of Melbourne social scientist Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne.
'Women are expected to be able to temper their libidos in ways that our culture pretends men can't,' Dr Rosewarne told news.com.au previously.
'Women have also long been tasked with [the] duty of sexual gatekeeping – that they are somehow not only responsible for their own desires, but also for men's too; that somehow the duty is on them not to tempt men.
'Obviously these ideas are underpinned by antiquated gendered stereotypes that many people still clutch to.'
Dr Rosewarne added that 'if the man is married and he has an affair, he has wrecked his home'.
'Blaming the other woman just allows us to frame the man as some kind of hapless victim to his penis, rather than an adult who made his own decisions,' she said.