Call girl by Jeannette Angell

Jeannette was a part time College lecturer just barely getting by, and then suffered an emotional and financial disaster: her boyfriend not only dumped her but emptied her checking account before doing so. She needed money just to get by from month to month, more than her limited lecturing could get her. She signed on for a good one, paying $140 an hour, with $60 going to management. Angell liked sex, she liked being around people, and she really needed the money. Any ethical dilemmas over the job lessened when she thought that in her sphere, having casual sex with a man from a singles bar was acceptable but sex as a business proposition wasn't. Which is really less ethical? She forces the reader to examine plenty of ethical issues. She was expecting a lot of kink initially, but "What I got instead was the sort of unmemorable sex that invariably characterizes first encounters." Clumsy and awkward. As she reflects, "It happens in real life all the time." There was a scary encounter with a cop, and although "Most of the fetishes and unusual activities that I encountered were fairly benign, essentially harmless..." a couple of them described here are chilling, though; an argument could be made that prostitutes are providing a larger social function in keeping such activities within the pay-for-play realm.

A unique memoir, written in a conversational and engaging tone, about a profession I know very little about.