The Making Of The Happy Hooker

Author : Debbie Stoller
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780761174981

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Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller Pdf

Debbie does crochet! Debbie Stoller, the “knitting superstar,” has been leading an entire movement of hip young knitters with her New York Times bestseller Stitch ’n Bitch and its follow-up, Stitch ’n Bitch Nation, together with over 521,000 copies in print. But guess what? For every one knitter in the world there are three crocheters—which translates into millions of hip, crafty, 18- to 35-year-olds ready to be happy hookers with Stitch ’n Bitch attitude, sexiness, ingenuity, and cool. Written in the author’s cheeky chick style, this heavily illustrated book—featuring four-color photographs and instructional illustrations throughout—is chock-full of instruction, inspiration, and to-die-for designs, from a Fishnet Skullcap to a lacy evening wrap. For knitters and new crafters exploring the hook comes the primer: the advantages of crochet and the ways in which knitters (and nonknitters) benefit by learning this sister craft; a discussion of tools; all the cool yarns available, and what the different gauges mean; plus basic techniques and stitch patterns—including the chain stitch, picot, flowers, filet crochet, changing yarns, and finishing. Then come 40 fabulous, funky projects—the kind that make Stitch ’n Bitch rule—for crocheters: Pom Pom Capelet, Retro Clutch Purse, Anarchy Irony Hat, Ms. Pac Man Change Purses, Doris Daymat, Va-Va-Va Voom Bikini, Animal I-Pod Cozies, Kid’s Sock Monkey Poncho. No, these aren’t your grandma’s doilies.

Author : Xavier Hollander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1898141975

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The Happy Hooker by Xavier Hollander Pdf

Author : Xaviera Hollander
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1602392404

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The Happy Hooker's Guide to Sex by Xaviera Hollander Pdf

Bestselling "sexpert" Xaviera Hollander's first how-to guide—on how to have mind-blowing sex. Xaviera Hollander may not have invented sex, but she is certainly one of its most outspoken proponents. Her book The Happy Hooker has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide and continues to captivate new readers with its humor, its zest for life, and, above all, for its downright honesty. She followed the success of her book with her monthly sex advice column for Penthouse, "Call Me Madam," which helped readers find fulfillment in bed for almost thirty years. The Happy Hooker's Guide to Sex takes hard-earned knowledge and puts it to excellent use, helping couples to experience the same mind-blowing pleasure that Xaviera has received and given for years. With a sense of fun and a knowing yet accessible voice, the Happy Hooker gives readers specific suggestions on how to spice things up in the bedroom. She writes from a woman's perspective, noting that her favorite sexual act has four letters and ends with "k." (Surprise: It's "talk.") Other suggestions include, "Pleasure her with her own toys," "Practice verbal bondage," and "Make home movies." With Xaviera as a muse and guide, this unique playbook promises to be a go-to Saturday night special! 30 b/w illustrations.

Author : Ashutosh Garg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789388038621

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The Brand Called You by Ashutosh Garg Pdf

There is no one else in the world like you. Your personal brand has been registered in your name and patented with your persona even though there may be hundreds of people carrying the same name. Creating, building, and developing your personal brand is entirely in your own hands. Conversely, destroying or diminishing your brand is also only in your own hands. Your brand is the essence of your own unique story. The key to this is reaching deep inside yourself and pulling out the authentic, the unique 'you', from within your own self. What we do with our own brand name could be the difference between being very successful and not so successful. This is as true for personal branding as it is for business branding. The Brand Called You outlines how critical it is for each one of us to understand the power and vulnerabilities of our brand and invest wisely and consistently in our persona and our name. Remember, the only legacy you will leave behind in the world is your name.

Author : Xaviera Hollander
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780062116604

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Child No More by Xaviera Hollander Pdf

In the bestselling The Happy Hooker and subsequent books, Xaviera Hollander became famous for her unforgettably candid and racy stories of life as a New York madam catering to a sophisticated international clientele during the 1960s and 70s. Yet this remarkable woman's sexual escapades form only a part of her own remarkable life story—a story she reveals for the first time in the pages of this literary memoir, Child No More. It was a life begun in terror: Two months after her birth, young Xaviera de Vries and her mother were confined in a prison camp during the WWII Japanese occupation of Indonesia; her father, a doctor, was imprisoned in another camp. Two years later, summoned to treat a sick child, he operated on his own daughter without realizing her identity. But that story is just the start of an extraordinary memoir in which she traces her own life—and sexuality—as it was influenced by the example of her parents: her father, a dapper and witty Jewish psychologist and intellectual, her mother the gorgeous daughter of conventional German parents, and a target of Nazi enmity for her association with a Jew. With breathtaking but entirely characteristic—frankness, Xaviera revisits how her parents' own tempestuous relationship (and her father's licentious lifestyle) shaped her own life story. As she chronicles her eventual departure for New York, her entree into the world of prostitution, and her years of international celebrity, she reveals for the first time how her parents' lives continued to entwine with her own, as she endured years of separation from her father, and even stood by her mother as she entered a fulfilling lesbian relationship in the last years of her life. Told in the utterly frank and unquenchably inquisitive voice that marks all her work—yet from an entirely new and ultimately more honest perspective—Child No More recounts a surprising and ultimately uplifting "voyage of discovery through three lives."

Author : Xaviera Hollander
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0451151038

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Xaviera on the Best Part of a Man by Xaviera Hollander Pdf

Author : Debbie Stoller
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780761174981

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Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller Pdf

Debbie does crochet! Debbie Stoller, the “knitting superstar,” has been leading an entire movement of hip young knitters with her New York Times bestseller Stitch ’n Bitch and its follow-up, Stitch ’n Bitch Nation, together with over 521,000 copies in print. But guess what? For every one knitter in the world there are three crocheters—which translates into millions of hip, crafty, 18- to 35-year-olds ready to be happy hookers with Stitch ’n Bitch attitude, sexiness, ingenuity, and cool. Written in the author’s cheeky chick style, this heavily illustrated book—featuring four-color photographs and instructional illustrations throughout—is chock-full of instruction, inspiration, and to-die-for designs, from a Fishnet Skullcap to a lacy evening wrap. For knitters and new crafters exploring the hook comes the primer: the advantages of crochet and the ways in which knitters (and nonknitters) benefit by learning this sister craft; a discussion of tools; all the cool yarns available, and what the different gauges mean; plus basic techniques and stitch patterns—including the chain stitch, picot, flowers, filet crochet, changing yarns, and finishing. Then come 40 fabulous, funky projects—the kind that make Stitch ’n Bitch rule—for crocheters: Pom Pom Capelet, Retro Clutch Purse, Anarchy Irony Hat, Ms. Pac Man Change Purses, Doris Daymat, Va-Va-Va Voom Bikini, Animal I-Pod Cozies, Kid’s Sock Monkey Poncho. No, these aren’t your grandma’s doilies.

Author : Xaviera Hollander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1568492472

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The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander Pdf

Author : Rachel Moran
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393351989

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Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran Pdf

An astonishingly brave memoir of prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman’s psyche and life. “The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of prostitution in moving, insightful prose that engages and disposes of every argument ever raised in its favor.” —Catharine A. MacKinnon, law professor, University of Michigan and Harvard University Born into a troubled family, Rachel Moran left home at the age of fourteen. Being homeless, she was driven into prostitution to survive. With intelligence and empathy, she describes the exploitation she and others endured on the streets and in the brothels. Moran also speaks to the psychological damage inherent to prostitution and the inevitable estrangement from one’s body. At twenty-two, Moran escaped the sex trade. She has since become a writer and an abolitionist activist.

Author : Emily Van der Meulen,Elya M. Durisin,Victoria Love
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774824484

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Selling Sex by Emily Van der Meulen,Elya M. Durisin,Victoria Love Pdf

"Despite being dubbed "the world's oldest profession," prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it has been criminalized, sensationalized, and polemicized across the socio-political spectrum by everyone from politicians to journalists to women's groups. Interest in and concern over sex work is not grounded in the lived realities of those who work in the industry, but rather in inflammatory ideas about who is participating, how they wound up in this line of work, and what form it takes. In Selling Sex, Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love present a more nuanced, balanced, and realistic view of the sex industry. They bring together a vast collection of voices - including researchers, feminists, academics, and advocates, as well as sex workers of differing ages, genders, and sectors - to engage in a dialogue that challenges the dominant narratives surrounding the sex industry and advances the idea that sex work is in fact work. Presenting a variety of opinions and perspectives on such diverse topics as the social stigma of sex work, police violence, labour organizing, anti-prostitution feminism, human trafficking, and harm reduction, Selling Sex is an eye-opening, challenging, and necessary book."--Publisher's website.

Author : Xaviera Hollander,Robin Moore,Yvonne Dunleavy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062116611

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The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander,Robin Moore,Yvonne Dunleavy Pdf

The 30th anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution—with a new Afterword by the author. An international phenomenon upon its initial publication in 1972, The Happy Hooker established Xaviera Hollander—previously the most powerful madam in New York City—as the world's best-known observer and commentator on sexual issues. A racy account of her life behind the brothel door, The Happy Hooker became an instant classic that marked the intersection between the Playboy generation and the sexual revolution of the feminist era. Hollander left no vice unturned, covering lesbianism, bondage, and other sexual appetites with a frank tone that left the reader with no doubt that they were listening to a master…or mistress, as it were. Now restored gloriously to print in a first-ever trade paperback edition, The Happy Hooker will reintroduce a whole new generation to the carefree days of swinging in the '60s and '70s.

Author : Dolores French,Linda Lee
Publisher : Victor Gollancz
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0575602368

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Working by Dolores French,Linda Lee Pdf

Author : Xaviera Hollander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Sex
ISBN : 0725517425

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Xaviera's Supersex by Xaviera Hollander Pdf

Author : Andrea Werhun,Nicole Bazuin
Publisher : Strange Light
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780771098413

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Modern Whore by Andrea Werhun,Nicole Bazuin Pdf

Oh, the places a whore will go: Strip clubs, four-star hotels, stinking basement apartments, luxury cottages. A striking memoir by Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea's sex work career in lush photography and powerful words—in all its slippery, sexy, silly and sometimes heartbreaking glory. Andrea Werhun's sex work career gave her money, freedom, joy, and a lot of dick. A natural performer, she revelled in the opportunity to invent Mary Ann, her escort counterpart, and introduce her to men all over the city. She whores, she learns, she writes it all down, and then, as per a signed document she handed to her Catholic mother in her early twenties, she quits. To become a stripper. Andrea and Nicole revisit the idea of the modern whore, with the enhanced perspective of Andrea's experience at the strip club. This new, engorged edition of the sold-out memoir-cum-art book expands on the original concept--a series of vignettes exploring the many identities sex workers adopt in the service of their clients and in the eyes of the public--in both a literal and literary way. But Andrea doesn't shy away from the serious side of sex work, either, exploring the risks sex workers take, and the rights our culture is constantly taking away from them. This series of stories and portraits investigate the many ways we imagine—and mistake—the modern whore. It's Playboy if the Playmates were in charge.

Author : Bob Hope,Dwayne Netland
Publisher : Main Street Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 038518896X

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Bob Hope's Confessions of a Hooker by Bob Hope,Dwayne Netland Pdf

The legendary comedian's "swinging" memoirs are available at last in paperback, featuring a brand new chapter and photographs.