From a review by Chris Estey called Scribes Sounding Off:

Speaking of people with low social status, the rock life has often been financed by people in really challenging occupations, from supportive girlfriends of guitar players to sweet souls like my own writing mentor in pre-hardcore NW punk days, who was lead singer in the OG incarnation of Sado Nation and danced naked for men in downtown Portland. “We Are All Prostitutes,” the Pop Group once sang, and Soft Skull Press has just put out a remarkable work memoir by sex workers and a couple of guys who help them maintain their dignity and health despite the lifestyle, and it’s no surprise that Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys is often an outstanding self-expression of the underside of people beneath the music scene.

Edited by David Henry Sterry (who scribed the praiseworthy Chicken: Self-Portrait Of A Young Man For Rent) and R.J. Martin, Jr. (an activist who helps sex workers with their trauma, abuse, and addiction), the anthology puts together work from contributors such as “sex positive” activist Annie Sprinkle, I Was A Teenage Dominatrix Shawna Kenney (who wrote a very rocking memoir under that title a few years ago, which many rock fanzines and websites covered), educator/porn star Nina Hartley, and even a section for “anonymous writers.” The vivid recollections of rough employment in an outlaw but billion dollar industry, like the music business now also struggling due to the Internet and the state of the economy, is a provocative read that trades revelation for empathy. Some tales are a little unexpected, like David Henry Sterry’s I Was A Bithday Present For An 82 Year Old Grandmother,” but like Kill Your Friends, sometimes the imagined glamorous life turns out to be less dazzling than you’ve imagined.