Hope for man-woman relations from an unexpected source.
Book One: The Memoirs of a Priestess-Identified Prostitute
“Money abruptly came into my life, but without the destructive emotional price that I’d been led to believe that a prostitute must pay. At first, of course, I had qualms about my acts; social conditioning is a vice grip on the mind.”
Book Two: Her Visions and Advocacies
“There are whores who take great pride in the work, and there are whores who despise themselves in it. There are whores who understand that the work can be exalting, and there are whores who degrade both the work and themselves.”
There’s something here for everyone.
A degreed yet very poor single mom becomes an independent callgirl. Soon she discovers that most men are nice guys, paid sex can be therapeutic, the demand for the service is endless, “mothers’ hours” are normal, and the pay is simply outstanding. Only three things are missing: social acceptance, the support of most feminists, and a mandated set of high standards.
She finds that those deficits, and not the work itself, are the circumstances that cause whores to suffer.
This is informative and emotional reading, amazing to the mind and wrenching to the heart. A woman has rescued her family by committing the all-time big female offense. She shows how self-renewal and empowerment, well-seasoned by compassion and humanism, are the qualities that render such a huge taboo unjust.
Her story is also the missing link in most of the Goddess “herstories”. The primordial temple priestess whore, who sexually facilitated the worship of Great Mother, has rarely been deeply looked into. Here her praises are ecstatically sung.
These books are empathetic toward men. Men who read it will smile. Women who read it may come to understand that the greatest oppression of feminine strengths, as well as a true liberation, may be somewhere they never would have guessed.