Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys

Posted on 15 October 2017 by David Henry Sterry

The only thing the writers in this book have in common is that they ve exchanged sex for money They re PhDs and dropouts, soccer moms and jailbirds, 2,500 a night call girls and 10 crack hos, and everything in between This anthology lends a voice to an underrepresented population that is simultaneously reviled and worshipped Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys is a collection of short memoirs, rants, confessions, nightmares, journalism, and poetry covering life, love, work, family, and yes, sex The editors gather pieces from the world of industrial sex, including contributions from art porn priestess Dr Annie Sprinkle, best selling memoirist David Henry Sterry Chicken Self Portrait of a Young Man for Rent , sex activist and musical diva Candye Kane, women and men right off the streets, girls participating in the first ever National Summit of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth, and Ruth Morgan Thomas, one of the organizers of the European Sex Work, Human Rights, and Migration Conference.Sex is a billion dollar industry Meet the real people who are its flesh and blood. Best Download Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys [ Author ] David Henry Sterry [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr The only thing every writer in this book has in common is that they ve exchanged sexual services for money Ph.D.s to dropouts, soccer moms to jailbirds, 2500 a night callgirls to 10 crack hos, and everything in between This anthology gives voice to an underrepresented population that is simultaneously ...The best sex worker anthology I have ever read And I have read them all Literally Way better than Working Sex, and I will paraphrase a line from my review of that book This should come with a sticker that says, Now with 25% less San Francisco Bullshit ACTUAL diversity of opinions like, you know, a pimp Or a bunch of people who needed to be anonymous Standouts Sterry s chapter openers, moch...I picked up this book because, 1 I was shocked it was on the shelves of the public library and 2 the lovely Audacia Ray is a contributor I have had a hard time putting it down for the other books I HAVE to read The stories are almost all excellent, with the section on relationships with family my favorite by far What I love most about this book is that there is a third wave feminist, sex positive vibe that refuses to sugar coat anything which is what sex positive feminism should be but I picked up this book because, 1 I was shocked it was on the shelves of the public library and 2 the lovely Audacia Ray is a contributor I have had a hard time putting it down for the other books I HAVE to read The stories are almost all excellent, with the section on relationships with family my favorite by far What I love most about this book is that there is a third wave feminist, sex positive vibe that refuses to sugar coat anything which is what sex positive feminism should be but which it can never become in its constant battles against radical feminism and the rightwing.What s great about the approach is that there is no one sex worker experience and there is very little moralizing about what sex work should or shouldn t be There is no Yay Sex work is empo...This book is split up into 5 sections like the title implies life, love, work, sex, and money And under each section several different people sometimes introduced by David Henry Sterry, sometimes not, which at first made it difficult for me to know when we were switching authors tell a story somehow involving this theme.Like all anthologies, some stories are better than others Some stories are hilarious, poignant, tragic, or beautiful, and some make you wonder if maybe your edition has This book is split up into 5 sections like the title implies life, love, work, sex, and money And under each section several different people sometimes introduced by David Hen...Overall an entertaining and educational read There were some really amazing stories, and some mediocre ones, as is the case with most anthologies Some perspectives interested methan others My main problems with this book was the fact that it seemed to be heavily skewed towards the gay rent boy and poor street hooker perspectives I would ve liked to seestories from straight male prostitutes and higher class call girls to even out the ratio and the introductions written by S Overall an entertaining and educational read There were some really amazing stories, and some mediocre ones...This is an attractively packaged anthology of first person oral histories each ranging in length from two paragraphs to five to six pages max penned by people in The Life higher priced call girls, street hookers, brothel workers, pimps, men and boys working off the streets or on Craigslist, SM workers, trannies, strippers putting themselves through college, drug addicts hooking on the side, and a lot of other people whose modus operandi and identity are not always well elaborated Th This is an attractively packaged anthology of first person oral histories each ranging in length from two paragraphs to five to six pages max penned by people in The Life higher priced call girls, street hookers, brothel workers, pimps, men and boys working off the streets or on Craigslist, SM workers, trannies, strippers putting themselves through college, drug addicts hooking on the side, and a lot of other people whose modus operandi and identity are not always well elaborated The collection is a huge mixed bag, the rati...As the title implies, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys Professionals writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex this is a diverse anthology with contributions from individuals who have been paid for sexual services Both their life stories and writing styles diverge greatly, ranging from PhDs to abused children, and from poems to interviews to autobiographical short stories Since each piece is self contained, it s very easy to pick up and put down unfortunately I didn t miss the volume when As the titl...What an incredible mix Most of us are blind to the this world, yet our beliefs and values judge at even seeing the title of the book What a gift to expanding our world, what a challenge to suspend judgment, and perhaps even think, I could have done that, I could have taken that path and then re...Some fantastic stories that pull you to different corners of the dark, seedy universe that most of us have never experienced Some will make you feel intense pain and hatred, especially the section on exploited youth But like most multi authored books, some of ...I wanted t like this far , but to me, it re enforced stereotypes, or perhaps it merely focused heavily on drug addicted street workers In any case, I, who usually love sex worker books, didn t really care for this.

English
15 October 2017

David Henry Sterry