Whore Carnival

by Shannon Bell

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Nonfiction. WHORE CARNIVAL is Shannon Bell's feminist genealogy of prostitution, linking the ancient Greek "hetaera"-the holy courtesan - to the sex industry workers of post-modern Babylon. In these interviews, pleasure texts and "cuntceptual" essays you'll meet the Art Tart and the Slut Goddess, the Scarlot Harlot and the Marquesa, the Dean of Students at the Academy For Boys Who Want To Be Girls, the Mistress of the House of Domination, and many more magical whores and hustlers, sex show more artists and porno-politicos, all of them with an eye - or some other body part - on the orgiastic issues of sexual and social insurrection. show less

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bdank 14 reviews

I loved this book; this not just another dry or
exploitative book on sex workers. The author
presents a number of interviews with well known
sex workers, performance artists. Insightful
throughout.

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