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Online filthy.john

Any recommendations for good reads about the sex industry?

The books on the industry were all the rage at one point - but I havent seen any talk or reviews about any of late.

I had a little search on Amazon last night and came across BUYING SEX: A Users Guide to Independent Escorts and Prostitution in Britain by SIMON HEXTON.... has anyone read this?

Any recommendations - and please, dont suggest Nik's book  :wacko:

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no... for what it is worth the Kindle version of the book is utterly unreadable.

Online Foxtail17

Any recommendations for good reads about the sex industry?

The books on the industry were all the rage at one point - but I havent seen any talk or reviews about any of late.

I had a little search on Amazon last night and came across BUYING SEX: A Users Guide to Independent Escorts and Prostitution in Britain by SIMON HEXTON.... has anyone read this?

Any recommendations - and please, dont suggest Nik's book  :wacko:

I got NIK’s book on kindle as I had a couple of quid left over from a voucher. Not sure what I was expecting. I have only punted for about 4 years, all in the internet age, so I was fascinated to read about phone box and newspaper ads. I guess a title of ‘Carry On Punting’ would sum it up for me.

Offline datwabbit

Never read a book on casual sex (Inc swingers) but the TV never seems to hit the normality, as it's a hobby, habit or job, of it all.

Whether it's Louis Theroux or Mistresses or Diary of a call girl or Band of gold. It's always bringing in the extremes.

Possibly the escort in Brookside (Katya?) and someone now in Corrie.

Offline Corus Boy

Donna Exeter, an escort from Exeter, but now sadly long retired wrote a book ecounting her introduction into the industy.

I remember it as being a good read but I don't remember the title.

The Internet tells me that it was called Love Juice.

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Offline Horizontal pleasures

I love reading books.
I love punting.
If I had punting funds I would spend them on punting fun, not on books.

Online filthy.john

Donna Exeter, an escort from Exeter, but now sadly long retired wrote a book ecounting her introduction into the industy.

I remember it as being a good read but I don't remember the title.

The Internet tells me that it was called Love Juice.

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The link goes to US Amazon site - presumably Donna Exeter was UK based and about her exploits in the UK not the US? Never heard of her or her book but I'll have a look.

EDIT: from GoodReads it seems to suggest this is a fictitious work and a novel?
« Last Edit: September 15, 2020, 03:17:56 pm by filthy.john »

Offline Corus Boy

The link goes to US Amazon site - presumably Donna Exeter was UK based and about her exploits in the UK not the US? Never heard of her or her book but I'll have a look.

EDIT: from GoodReads it seems to suggest this is a fictitious work and a novel?

She was a UK escort, and a very good one.

I'll stand corrected but I seem to recollect her telling me that it recounts her early years working in a palour.

It may be fiction based on true stories.

But who knows.

Offline scutty brown

She was a UK escort, and a very good one.

I'll stand corrected but I seem to recollect her telling me that it recounts her early years working in a palour.

It may be fiction based on true stories.

But who knows.

Does that make it a fuction?

Offline rathbone

This one is interesting if you remember what phone boxes were like 20 years ago -
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This is (not such a great) novel, apparently the author lurked on Adultwork and forums (UKP?) to do her research -
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Online filthy.john

This one is interesting if you remember what phone boxes were like 20 years ago -
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This is (not such a great) novel, apparently the author lurked on Adultwork and forums (UKP?) to do her research -
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Tart Cards does sound like a good read - probably hard copy rather than Kindle mind.... And I I do remember the London phone boxes of the 90s - I used to have a fair old card collection!

Offline Plan R

Tart Cards does sound like a good read - probably hard copy rather than Kindle mind.... And I I do remember the London phone boxes of the 90s - I used to have a fair old card collection!

Haha me too, had em plastered all over my flat in the early 90s
Used to tell civy birds they were 'ironic' or some such.
Looking back I was so rampant in those days.

Offline tesla

Haha me too, had em plastered all over my flat in the early 90s
Used to tell civy birds they were 'ironic' or some such.
Looking back I was so rampant in those days.

I was interviewed once by Dr Teela Sanders who has written several book on the sex trade

Online filthy.john

I was interviewed once by Dr Teela Sanders who has written several book on the sex trade

Searching that name on Amazon has thrown up a wealth of 'academic' books on the subject - at academic book prices - I am saddened to say. I'm not sure, however, that the academic books on sex work, politics and policy are likely to be all that entertaining and certainly not likely to be worth the cost in case they arent!

Offline Corus Boy

I've just dug out my copy of Love Juice.

It comes with a front cover warning, 'Adults Only.'

The flyleaf says;

Love Juice charts the career of a fictitious professional, but is rooted in reality.

I do remember Donna telling me that it charted her entry into the world of escorting.

I will read it again over the weekend. :)

Offline Home Alone

I was interviewed once by Dr Teela Sanders who has written several book on the sex trade

You and me both, Tesla. Around 2007, if memory serves. Was it called "Paying for pleasure" or another one of hers?

I mentioned that book once to a SP I saw in Wigan in, probably, 2010 or '11. She expressed an interest in reading it, so on a second visit I took it with me and lent it to her. Only to find myself 'blocked' when I tried to book another appointment!

Ah well, that was one of the things that's made me less fluffy than I used to be back then. ;) :D

[Incidentally, some years later, I saw a 'peer review' of it, in which it was severely criticised for the fact that all the subjects had been self-selected, by replying to an interview she gave on the radio seeking punters to be interviewed, rather than being randomly selected by Dr. Sanders].

Offline HumphryB

I got NIK’s book on kindle as I had a couple of quid left over from a voucher. Not sure what I was expecting. I have only punted for about 4 years, all in the internet age, so I was fascinated to read about phone box and newspaper ads. I guess a title of ‘Carry On Punting’ would sum it up for me.

A link to NIK's book, or am i missing something :unknown:


Offline Gordon Bennett

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Cor blimey, I never knew! Imagine it got optioned by a Hollywood bigwig and became a film too. I'd speculate on who could play NIK but I know nothing about him so it could be anybody from Danny DeVito to Jason Statham really.