Description
Book SynopsisLearn about the real lives of sex workers by exploring the sex industry from the inside!Explore the insightful--and oftentimes intense--accounts of sex workers who look squarely into the eyes of their clients, the sex industry, and society as a whole. Tricks and Treats delivers private stories about homo- and heterosexual encounters that sex workers usually confide only in each other. Not another âœwhy I became a prostituteâ book, it provocatively turns the tables on the buyers of sex, giving you a window into sex workersâlives. Tricks and Treats gives you straightforward accounts by sex workers to help you understand the pleasures, attractions, and truths of this profession. Tricks and Treats tantalizes with its powerful collection of tales from a diverse group of male, female, and transgendered sex workers. Their commercial, cultural, emotional, sexual, (il)legal, and even spiritual relationships with their clients are discussed in intimate detail. You will explore accounts from s
Table of Contents
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Tricks and Treats: An Introduction
- Tricks
- 1. Shut Up
- 2. My Path to Sanity
- 3. Man of God
- 4. The Porn Queen
- 5. Champagne Tastes on a Crystal Budget
- 6. Getting Fucked
- 7. Porn Moguls
- 8. A Slice of “The Life”
- Treats
- 9. Bodhisattvas Among Us: Compassionate Sex Workers
- 10. Clocking In
- 11. The House I Grew Up In
- 12. Numbers
- 13. Joel
- 14. Toward a Taxonomy of Tricks: A Whore Considers the Age-Old Question, “What Do Clients Want?”
- 15. In Love with My Work
- Tricks & Treats
- 16. Thirty Years
- 17. A Few Friends
- 18. Scrapbook
- 19. Two Sides
- 20. A Complicated Business
- 21. Payment by Donation: Every Sperm is Sacred
- 22. Orange Phone
- 23. Outreach
- 24. Luck
- Contributors
- Index
