Hooker Book Club
“Between hustling, dates and standing in line at the food bank, some prostitutes are holing up in the city’s’ slum alleys and noisy shelters, turning pages rather than tricks. Women in the Downtown Eastside devoured their latest book club selection before meeting the author for a debate Tuesday. ‘A lot of people think working women can’t read or aren’t interested in things like literature,’ said Beverley Ranger, a prostitute peer counselor who has been making the flophouse rounds hooking girls up with books. ‘It doesn’t surprise me, that assumption. Nothing surprises me anymore, but it’s not like they didn’t go to school. ‘A lot of them had normal jobs and normal lives before they ended up down here.’ Life on the streets feeds people’s desire to escape and books are as comforting to hookers, addicts and homeless people as they are to Oprah Winfrey.” —AZcentral.com (US)
(Thanks to alanr for the link.)
Apparently streetwalkers prefer two kinds of books: gritty reality tales that depict life on the streets, and romantic fantasies that allow them to escape the gritty reality of life on the streets. In other words, hookers read for either narcissism or escapism, which is what most people read for anyway.
In any case, it’s a great idea to have a book club for prostitutes. Reading can improve a person’s quality of life in many ways. And it can also make prostitutes into better hookers (a point which the article fails to make). For example, what working girl wouldn’t do well to read Sade, to learn some techniques? Or Hemingway, to learn about the male mind? For that matter, working girls would do well to educate themselves for the simple reason that brains are sexy. Where do you think all those “hot for teacher” scenarios come from? What makes the fantasy of the librarian letting down her hair so compelling? It’s the thought that you get not only a woman who is physically beautiful but one who is intellectually compelling as well. That’s sexy.
P.S. To put the proof in the pudding, Supervert — publisher of PervScan.com — will offer free copies of Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish to any girl who can reasonably demonstrate that she’s involved in sex work. Or we’ll even send multiple copies if you can convince us that you run an escort service or similar establishment. Send an email if you feel you qualify.
I’d be interested if you’d bother to summarize the number of responses to your offer in, say, two weeks. Nice idea, by the way.
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