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audaciaray's review against another edition
4.0
Grisélidis Réal is an eminently problematic but enigmatically likable character. As I've muddled through the stress of dealing with the news cycle around the Long Island serial killer, I've really enjoyed immersing myself in the lengthy interview with Grisélidis and her notes on clients. She's laugh out loud funny, with her descriptions of clients and the (unsurprising to me, but somehow surprising to the interviewer) reveal that she tries to get them in and out (so to speak) as quickly as possible.
She tells longer stories too, but some of the interactions look like this:
Q: Did he pay?
A: I wouldn't have done a thing if he hadn't paid. No, come on, what did you expect! I'm not the Salvation Army here.
This book is a fantastic document, though I wish there was more about Grisélidis' activism and not just her sex work. She did, after all, participate in the 1975 weeklong occupation of the St Nizier Church in Lyon, France - plus generally make activist trouble. There's probably more about that work in her other books, which haven't yet been translated into English.
She tells longer stories too, but some of the interactions look like this:
Q: Did he pay?
A: I wouldn't have done a thing if he hadn't paid. No, come on, what did you expect! I'm not the Salvation Army here.
This book is a fantastic document, though I wish there was more about Grisélidis' activism and not just her sex work. She did, after all, participate in the 1975 weeklong occupation of the St Nizier Church in Lyon, France - plus generally make activist trouble. There's probably more about that work in her other books, which haven't yet been translated into English.
rachael_nz's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted to love this, I really did! And I loved the insights into different ways of working, of sex work funding activism, of motherhood + sex work and the complicated emotional navigations sex workers make.
However... She's really racist huh? And the interviewing style often moved on so quickly from the stuff I found most interesting! It was interesting and I wanna know more about her,but I also don't want to spend my time reading race based generalisations about clients
However... She's really racist huh? And the interviewing style often moved on so quickly from the stuff I found most interesting! It was interesting and I wanna know more about her,but I also don't want to spend my time reading race based generalisations about clients
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