false 325930 13 How did <I>you</I> first learn about sex? If you grew up in the 1970s, it may have been from a gleefully lusty tour guide named Xaviera Hollander. In the late 1960s -- that era of sexual chaos, when Playboy Clubs and love-ins were competing for national attention -- a beautiful, intelligent young Dutch secretary named Xaviera de Vries moved to New York, grew swiftly tired of her desk job . . . and soon became the most visible and glamorous madam the city had ever seen. As Xaviera Hollander, she published a shockingly candid account of her life behind the brothel door. <I>The Happy Hooker</I> shot straight to the top of the bestseller lists, sold more than fifteen million copies, and made this enterprising young woman an international phenomenon. Thirty years later, these delightfully explicit tales of the '60s and '70s swingers' scene -- including countless jaw-dropping stories of lesbianism, bondage, fetishism, and more -- remain as titillating as ever, charged with the mix of shrewd observation and uninhibited appetite that made Hollander an irresistible storyteller. <I>The Happy Hooker</I> is a classic: the world's greatest book on the world's oldest profession. 520977 1972 The Happy Hooker: My Own Story total:240|5:36|4:43|3:99|2:50|1:12| 240 761 319 53 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Sep 04 22:12:59 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 22:16:09 -0700 2008 3 1 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Jul 02 06:11:28 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 08:30:00 -0700 2008 We noticed erotic art on the walls. We noticed erotic...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1972 Tue Jan 29 08:35:09 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 08:43:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981 Sun Dec 09 21:46:11 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 21:48:34 -0800 2007
I learned that some people get paid for sex.

It took me more years to understand that she got paid again for writing about it.

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