Hos, Hookers, Callgirls, & Rentboys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Work & Money
Edited by: David Henry Sterry and RJ Martin
Soft Skull Press ISBN: 1593762410
Read the New York Times Sunday Book Review article on our book. Published as the Book Review COVER story on August 23, 2009.
Sex is a billion-dollar industry. Meet the real people who are its flesh and blood.
Ho’s, Hustlers, Callgirls & Rentboys strips away the glitter and stiletto heels, the myths, prejudices and misperceptions, and humanizes the men and women who we pay for sex. They are PhDs and high school dropouts, soccer moms and jailbirds, $2,500-a-night call girls and $25 rentboys. This anthology gives voice to an underrepresented population simultaneously shamed and glamorized, ostracized and glorified, reviled and worshiped.
Hos, Hookers, Callgirls, and Rentboys is a collection of short memoirs, whore war stories, confessions, nightmares, journalism and poetry. It contains new writing from sex worker literati: art-porn priestess Dr. Annie Sprinkle; the infamous Happy Hooker, Xaviera Hollander; author and LGBT activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore; star of The Devil in Miss Jones, Georgina Spelvin; best-selling memoirist David Henry Sterry and sex educator/movie star Nina Hartley. But it also includes crack hos, male hustlers, pimps and the teenagers they exploit. Funny, terrifying, tragic and inspiring, this collection is unprecedented because it includes people from all walks of the sex for money world.
From back-alley Tenderloin massage parlors, to glittering Beverly Hills hotels, to Times Square porn palaces, to the meanest streets in Harlem, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys is a collage of sex and money, shining light on this hidden underbelly of America, from sea to shining sea.
