“A young Taiwanese author nabbed by police for soliciting for prostitution says she was offering herself for sexual services to enrich her experience for her books, police said… In her confession, Chen said she did not provide ‘full’ sexual services but allowed clients to caress her for NT$900 (S$46) an hour. She has earned about NT$50,000 since she started plying the flesh trade in April… Since she left school, she has written three science fiction books, one of which won a literature award from a local youth group.” — Straits Times (Singapore)

Virginia Woolf claimed that every writer needs “a room of her own,” but of course she probably wasn’t thinking that the writer would be using the room to turn tricks. Then again, most writers end up as prostitutes of one sort or another anyway. Most sell their talent, but maybe this particular scribe had the notion to save her work and sell her body instead. Why not? After all, it’s a hard life, being a writer. You spend months pouring your heart out and in return you get nothing, least of all money. How can you blame a girl if she decides that, for a few hours a day, she’ll let a bunch of creeps feel her up? She can make buckets of money, she can still have the time to work on her books, and the creeps, unlike publishers, never slap her with rejection slips.

That being said, you can’t help but be struck by the fact that the writer in question claimed to be researching prostitution and yet she tends to write science fiction novels. What was her next book going to be? Hookers on Mars? Sluts of Saturn? Perhaps she was planning on writing a work in the manner of Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish?

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