A review by thecatwood
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren

4.0

Despite the tackiest cover ever, Some Girls was a great memoir of a young woman's time working in the harem of a Prince of Brunei. I don't know if it was as emotionally devastating as Girls Like Us (Rachel Lloyd) or as political insightful as Big Sex Little Death (Susie Bright), but its another piece of the ongoing dialogue of women's experience in sex work. There's a lot going on here, from abusive family to depression, that could easily fill a book completely separate from Lauren's harem days.The harem days, however, are as astoundingly opulent as you can possibly imagine (and Lauren's descriptions of the opulence are probably more titillating than any of the sex work).