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Diary of a Legal Prostitute: Nevada Brothels
Michelle Maverick, a legal prostitute in Neveda, takes you inside the brothel where she works and gives a first-person account of her experiences there. Written in diary format, the book is an excellent source of information for people who frequent or are curious about brothels and also for women who are thinking about entering the business. Unlike other books written about brothels, this one is written by someone on the inside. From the interesting characters she meets and the details of their interludes to the issues faced by a working woman and mother, Michelle addresses it and shares it all in her own words.
176 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2004
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December 20, 2012
Do you know what "Diary of a Legal Prostitute" is? It's depressing, that's what it is.
Michelle Maverick, the poor lady who wrote this terrible diary, isn't just a prostitute. In fact, Maverick is a total shut in. She comes across as dysfunctional in a sad and pathetic way. She's also demoralized.
For an example of something demoralizing that happened to Maverick, she tells a story about how the madam of a brothel she worked at made all the prostitutes pull down their pants and bend over so that it could be determined if the ladies were hiding money in an orifice. She makes it sound as if this "bend over so we can check your orifices out for money" is a standard, and routine, procedure.
Not only is Maverick treated poorly by her employers, but her job is also incredibly terrible because, for one thing, she's basically trapped at the brothel she works at. She's not wanted amongst the non-brothel workers of Nevada, and so she must send someone to the store for all her purchases.
In fact, Maverick claims that one brothel she worked at only let the prostitutes go out to stand in the yard for like, an hour a day. The yard is all fenced in with barbed wire too--probably so the prostitutes can't run away. The rest of the time they were shut up in the brothel.
This book is so depressing it's painful. At one point, Maverick talked about how she made a homemade "menu" that described the sex acts she had for sale, and to illustrate her menu, she cut out pictures from a phone book.
Why a phone book? Because that's all she had to make her menu with, since she's a shut in who spends all her time in a brothel and isn't allowed to go to the store to buy art supplies to make a "proper" brothel menu.
Maverick made prostitutes come across as pa-thet-ic.
I bought this book for a dollar at the bargain bookstore, and it was over priced. The lady who wrote this book was not a writer of any merit.
Frankly, I'd say she's probably receiving mental health services that include institutionalization and case management these days.
This book is depressing. I read it a while ago, and I remember when I was finished with it, I just kept thinking to myself, "What did I just read? And why did I read it?"
The book is pretty bad--no lie.
Michelle Maverick, the poor lady who wrote this terrible diary, isn't just a prostitute. In fact, Maverick is a total shut in. She comes across as dysfunctional in a sad and pathetic way. She's also demoralized.
For an example of something demoralizing that happened to Maverick, she tells a story about how the madam of a brothel she worked at made all the prostitutes pull down their pants and bend over so that it could be determined if the ladies were hiding money in an orifice. She makes it sound as if this "bend over so we can check your orifices out for money" is a standard, and routine, procedure.
Not only is Maverick treated poorly by her employers, but her job is also incredibly terrible because, for one thing, she's basically trapped at the brothel she works at. She's not wanted amongst the non-brothel workers of Nevada, and so she must send someone to the store for all her purchases.
In fact, Maverick claims that one brothel she worked at only let the prostitutes go out to stand in the yard for like, an hour a day. The yard is all fenced in with barbed wire too--probably so the prostitutes can't run away. The rest of the time they were shut up in the brothel.
This book is so depressing it's painful. At one point, Maverick talked about how she made a homemade "menu" that described the sex acts she had for sale, and to illustrate her menu, she cut out pictures from a phone book.
Why a phone book? Because that's all she had to make her menu with, since she's a shut in who spends all her time in a brothel and isn't allowed to go to the store to buy art supplies to make a "proper" brothel menu.
Maverick made prostitutes come across as pa-thet-ic.
I bought this book for a dollar at the bargain bookstore, and it was over priced. The lady who wrote this book was not a writer of any merit.
Frankly, I'd say she's probably receiving mental health services that include institutionalization and case management these days.
This book is depressing. I read it a while ago, and I remember when I was finished with it, I just kept thinking to myself, "What did I just read? And why did I read it?"
The book is pretty bad--no lie.
June 2, 2013
Maverick writes as if she's relaying information about what she's cooking for dinner. There's very little in the way of emotion or explanation and it's difficult to connect with her. By the end of the book I didn't care about our 'heroine' one way or the other.
March 7, 2012
Interesting at first but the diary starts to sound tedious after awhile.
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