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A sincerely worthwhile read. Lots of media about sex workers prefers to demean or eroticize their professions, where this book sets them on center stage to describe their own experiences as they would to friends. It's humanizing to people who are often dehumanized and there's great value in that.
A revealing inside look at the sex industry. It gives you a perspective you'd never think you may consider. Some pieces are fascinating, others are more thought-provoking. Definitely recommended if you feel comfortable with some taboo topics!
This is a really refreshing and entertaining collection of stories by a variety of folks currently or formerly working in the sex industry. One of my favorite stories in the collection is Bernstein Sycamore's...
This collection of stories circles a variety of sex work, describing the industry from several different perspectives and demographics. Some of the stories left me giggling, some landed on soft spots and drew tears, and some opened my eyes to aspects of sex work that I had never considered. The contributors thoughtfully described their experiences, not writing for anyone other than their fellow sex workers. The result gels into an eye opening collage of a profession as old and as diverse as huma...
"Let me pause ... to tell you that I love anal sex. I love getting heavy fucked by a beautiful stranger or held and made love to by the man of my dreams. And I will never forget the first time I fucked someone, a good two years after I started having sex. What an all-consuming feeling of passion and power, to have a man beneath me, submitting, releasing himself as the ecstasy cojoins and envelops us completely. This was not such an experience. There were no writhing bodies, no orgiastic moans or...
I don't know, guys. This book was really uneven. Some of the essays in this book are pretty pornographic. First reaction is like "This vivid, not particularly well-written sex scene ruins the larger merits of this essay" and then second reaction is like "That's just what the PATRIARCHY!!! wants you to think!! It wants you to denegrate that which is titillating or pornographic by separating it from what is considered 'valid academic thought!'" and then I realized many of the pornier essays are ju...