Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1593762410 ISBN 13: 9781593762414

Casa editrice: Catapult, 2009

Riassunto

An anthology of personal accounts by people from all walks of life who have exchanged sex for money offers insight into their former prospects and motivations and includes contributions by art-porn priestess Dr. Annie Sprinkle, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl's Tracy Quan, and best-selling memoirist David Henry Sterry. Original.

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"[A]n eye-opening, occasionally astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection . . . unpolished, unpretentious, and riveting. . . [a] rare ability to tell the truth, an ability that education and sophistication often serve to conceal.” The New York Times

"Sterry, author of sex-worker memoir Chicken (a fact he mentions often) compiles an exhaustive (and exhausting) collection of writing from sex workers of all stripes. The sprawling project, grouped loosely by topic (Life, Love, Money, Sex, etc.), offers insight into seemingly all aspects of the sex trade: high-profile celebrities like Xaviera Happy Hooker” Hollander and Nina Hartley make notable contributors, but it’s the unknown writers who will stick. The selections from the book’s closing section alone, written by members of Sterry’s San Francisco writer’s workshop for sex workers, range from triumphant to harrowing, making up for a lack of style or form with passion. Aside from exposing the complex web of relationships among phone sex operators, dancers, massage parlor workers, prostitutes and their customers, the book is heavy with raw emotions ranging from celebratory to shameful, giving armchair sociologists plenty to ponder. It’s not all dark and heavy: Sterry’s own account of his experience as a birthday present for an 82-year-old grandmother is touching and sentimental; veteran performer Annie Sprinkle is characteristically blunt, funny and honest. Best consumed in small doses, this volume houses some real gems amongst a number of redundant space-fillers." Publishers Weekly

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Book by Martin Jr R J

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• Editore: Catapult
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1593762410
• ISBN 13: 9781593762414
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 344
• Redattore: Sterry David Henry, Martin Jr. R. J.