In the winter of 2014, writer and sex worker Charlotte Shane sent out her confessional letter to a small but devoted mailing list. In the months that followed, readership grew to over 5,000 subscribers who followed her candid, unstinting, sometimes heartbreaking meditations. Word spread quickly, garnering the project recognition from outlets such as The Washington Post and NPR. This intimate investigation is one young woman's best attempt at understanding her own rich, conflicted life, and the forces that act upon it. The collection is a thoughtful serial memoir about love, sex, money, and identity-how those forces can break us, and how they can make us whole again.

Prostitute Laundry

Charlotte Shane

TigerBee Press

In many ways, it is everything: my source of amusement and diversion, my recreation, my sex, my identity, the most illuminating form of engagement, the most heightened form of contact. . . In this lyric, meditative collection, Charlotte Shane details five challenging and isolating years of her sex work career with sensitivity and intelligence. Against a backdrop of some of the 21st century's most significant events-terrorist attacks, the recession-she navigates her exoticized and stigmatized work while preoccupied with perennial concerns: the meaning of intimacy, fidelity, love, and integrity. Here, abortion, sexual connection, and the ancient antagonism between men and women are starkly, rigorously examined to yield penetrating insight. N.B. is a work of uncommon honesty and sincerity that revitalizes a topic much discussed yet rarely understood. Originally available online under the title "Nightmare Brunette," these fiercely loved entries have been condensed and edited to remain as powerful as they were in their earlier incarnation.

N.B.

A Stylist 'Non-fiction You Can't Miss' selection for 2023This serial memoir follows Charlotte over the course of several years as she falls in and out of love, muses on the nature of sex work and the value of beauty, discovers hidden emotional complexities and contemplates leaving her profession. Growing out of a series of confessional letters sent by the author to a small but devoted mailing list, her candid, unstinting and sometimes heart-breaking meditations have gained thousands of subscribers and a cult status.Prostitute Laundry is a deeply thoughtful book about sensuality, money, and identity - how those forces can break us, and how they can make us whole again. By turns philosophical, funny and explicit, this is an affecting, immediate account of one life lived to its fullest.

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Prostitute Laundry

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Prostitute Laundry