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Indecent

Indecent

How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire
ISBN-10: 1580051693
ISBN-13: 9781580051699
256 pages
Paperback
$14.95 US
Rights: World
Published: October 2006

About the Book

Indecent is not your average I-stripped-my-way-through-college memoir. Sarah Katherine Lewis is a veteran of the sex industry who started small—doing lingerie modeling and striptease shows—but for reasons including the desire to earn more money and curiosity about other types of sex work moved into porn, and ultimately into illegal work.

Lewis is smart, self-aware, and bitingly funny. Where other writers in this genre have generally shielded themselves from letting things get too bad or go too far, Lewis comes face-to-face with the unimaginable. Her experiences with customers, whose fetishes and behaviors range from obscene to bizarre to twisted, are often recounted with outrageous and caustic humor. Lewis is a brilliant observer of human nature and has a read on her employers and coworkers that lends unique insight into the seedy underground of the more hardcore sex industry. Lewis is a sex worker by choice. She neither condemns nor condones the work, though she depicts her experiences with a gallows humor that reveals the complexity of professional adult sex work. Indecent offers readers an insider's account of hard-earned lessons and acute insight gained from over a decade in the trenches of one of America's most insidious and lucrative industries.
Sarah Katherine Lewis
Patrick Jeannes
About Sarah Katherine Lewis
Sarah Katherine Lewis is thirty-five years old and the author of Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire. She has been working in the sex industry for over a decade, in Seattle, Portland, New York City, and New Orleans. She’s worked as a stripper, a lingerie model, a phone sex operator, a dominatrix, a prostitute, a live-stream adult web performer, an XXX model, and a porn star. She has been keeping a blog for several years and has a regular readership of approximately 1,000 people. She was featured on NPR reading a piece from her blog, and will appear in the upcoming documentary film Pornography: Who’s It Hurting?

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