Lorelay

book No. 5 about sex work. This time collected stories by Viennese Whores. The preface is interesting. It says: the style isn't great but it's authentic, so we didn't edit it too much. The author, Lorelay, is still working in the business.

It contains stories about prostitution in Vienna by a four different women working as escorts or in massage salons or freelancing in the US. It contains quite a bit of graphic contents and I suspect it was written as a collection of erotic stories, marketed for its Viennese humour and compared to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Mutzenbacher.

I was really surprised about the amount of people into stuff that makes the germophobe in me shudder and want to scrub myself with a brillo pad. (Disclaimer: I am not prude. Well, yes I am, actually, but I don't judge them, I just had no idea there are so many!) Maybe it's just the highlights of these four women's careers?

I get why it's marketed as being typical Viennese charm. It is cheerful and fun and a little dirty. A lot of stories are in the vein of those pastel coloured chick lit books about a woman in her best years or maybe slightly over it, fighting the weight problems, worrying a little about money, love and relationships, getting dressed up and rushing all over town for work, only that in this book it means getting naked and on top and sometimes dealing with creepy and unwashed people.… (mehr)