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HO’S, HOOKERS, CALLGIRLS & RENTBOYS:
PROFESSIONALS WRITING ON LIFE, LOVE, MONEY & SEX
NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE & AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE

The miracle is manifest.  The anthology has hit the streets.  Half a decade in the making, this love’s labor, the product of so much blood, sweat, tears and other assorted body fluids, has finally traveled down the birth canal, and has been delivered by an able-bodied team of midwives, editors, dulas, copy editors, birth coaches, art directors and sweaty worried nerve-wracked family and relatives.  Below please find information about the website and events.  Many thanks to all involved.  We are very proud of this book.

REVIEW FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“The sprawling project, grouped loosely by topic (Life, Love, Money, Sex, etc.), offers insight into seemingly all aspects of the sex trade: high-profile celebrities like Xaviera “Happy Hooker” Hollander and Nina Hartley make notable contributors, but it’s the unknown writers who will stick. The selections from the book’s closing section alone, written by members of Sterry’s San Francisco writer’s workshop for sex workers, range from triumphant to harrowing… Aside from exposing the complex web of relationships among phone sex operators, dancers, massage parlor workers, prostitutes and their customers, the book is heavy with raw emotions ranging from celebratory to shameful, giving sociologists plenty to ponder. It’s not all dark and heavy: Sterry’s own account of his experience as a birthday present for an 82-year-old grandmother is touching and sentimental; veteran performer Annie Sprinkle is characteristically blunt, funny and honest… This volume houses some real gems.”

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 of oral history, short memoirs, war stories, confessions, nightmares, social criticism and poetry 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.

EVENTS
CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH

A cavalcade of tough guys, fast girls, bad boys and loose women sharing the wisdom of whores and spinning yarns of true love, fake orgasms and real-life true-crime murder.  David Henry Sterry, ex-teenage gigolo/rentboy/golf ho and author of best-selling memoir Chicken, will MC an all-star lineup of writers and performers from this groundbreaking anthology, followed by a very public discussion. Behind the bumps and the grinds, under the garters and the pasties, in between the booze fueled clients and the stiletto heels there is in the exchange of sex for money a power dynamic that opens a window into the soul.

COME LAUGH COME CRY JUST COME
Book Launch Party , Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission St between 11th and So. Van Ness SF, CA  415-255-1155
Sunday, July 26th at 6:30pm
Starring: Candye Kane, Dr. Carol Queen, Carla Crandall, Alvin Orloff, Sam Formo, Justin Jones, Diana Morgaine, Berta Avila, Lilycat, Juliet November, RJ Martin, David Henry Sterry

Rent Boys Night, A Different Light Bookstore
489 Castro St. San Francisco, CA 94114 415-431-0891
Wednesday, July 29th at 7:30pm
Starring: Alvin Orloff, Sam Formo, Justin Jones, RJ Martin, David Henry Sterry

Reading performance/signing, Good Vibrations Berkeley Store
2504 San Pablo Avenue (at Dwight Way) Berkeley, CA 94702 (510) 841-8987
Thursday, July 30th   6:00 – 7:00 pm
Starring: Dr. Annie Sprinkle, Diana Morgaine, Berta Avila, La Tigressa, RJ Martin, David Henry Sterry

Sex Worker Literati event Modern Times
888 Valencia St San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 282-9246
Tuesday, August 4th at 7pm
Starring: Dr. Carol Queen, Lorelei Lee, Al Eros, Lilycat, Diana Morgaine, RJ Martin, David Henry Sterry

Sex Worker Literati, Happy Ending
302 Broome St, New York, NY 10002 212-334-9676
When: Thursday, August 6
Starring:  Candye Kane, Audacia Ray, David Henry Sterry, Jodi Sh. Doff, Damien Decker, Juliana Piccillo

(This will be a monthly series, we will do a book release party in October)

In the Flesh, Happy Ending
302 Broome St, New York, NY 10002 212-334-9676
Thursday, August 20
Starring: Audacia Ray, David Henry Sterry, Jennifer Blowdryer, Zoe Hansen

Sex Worker Literati, Happy Ending
302 Broome St, New York, NY 10002 212-334-9676
Thursday, September 3
Starring: Audacia Ray et al

Reading/Discussion/Signing: Book Soup LA
8818 Sunset Blvd. W. Hollywood, CA 90069 310.659.3110
Thursday, September 3, 2009 7pm
Starring: Nina Hartley, Georgina Spelvin, Dahlia Schweitzer,.Jennifer Blowdryer, Juliana Piccillo, April Daisy White, David Henry Sterry

In the Flesh Literary Night Hustler Bookstore
8920 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90069  (310) 860-9009
Wednesday, September 9th at 8pm
Starring: Nina Hartley, Georgina Spelvin, Nica Noelle, Anastasia Antithesis, Sinnamon Love, David Henry Sterry

Sex Worker Literati Book Release Party Happy Ending
302 Broome St, New York, NY 10002 212-334-9676
Thursday, October 1,
Starring: Audacia Ray David Henry Sterry, Shawna Kenney, Melissa Petro, Perry Brass, Jennifer Blowdryer, Zoe Hansen, Jodi Sh. Doff, Hawk Kincaid, Sinnamon Love, Lauri Shaw