How Was It for You? - Stories from a Sex Worker

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let''s call her ''Eve''. Eve is someone''s daughter. Someone''s partner. Someone''s mother. And she has worked across the sex industry for twenty years: in a brothel, as an escort in a strip club, online and as a dominatrix. In this candid memoir, she reveals all: the good stuff, the bad, the downright ugly and the boring bits too. Responding to the relentless attacks on sex work by MPs and the police, as well as trying to make sense of the pitiful opportunities for progression in minimum wage jobs, Eve takes an informed look at the parts of the system that, perhaps now more than ever, make it impossible for people with fewer opportunities to thrive. We sit by her side in front of the computer and walk with her while she visits rich men at their Caribbean villas. We perch in the public gallery as she is dragged in and out of courtrooms by the law. We''re alongside her in a cell as she contemplates the true meaning of freedom. And we''re with her as she discovers she''s pregnant and decides to give her body another job: growing and giving birth to a baby. Honest, eye-opening, full of fury but frequently funny, How Was It for You? is a compelling commentary on what''s happening in society''s shadows, and a walk in someone else''s high heels that you won''t forget in a hurry.

Product details

• Authors: Eve Smith
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2024
• EAN: 9781035024513
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3502451-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 227 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Popular Culture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HUMOR / Form / Essays, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Erotic confessions and true stories, Erotic Confessions & True Stories, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry