How did you 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. The Happy Hooker 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. The Happy Hooker is a classic: the world's greatest book on the world's oldest profession.

The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Hollander, Xaviera

Community & Culture

Harper Paperbacks

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."

Child No More: A Memoir

William Morrow

Scorching days and sultry nights in Spain--the perfect setting for fun-loving Xaviera's favourite pastimes. With her willingly enslaved companion Fanny, her capacious BMW, and her inexhaustible energy and appetites, a summer full of variety--sexual and otherwise--is on the cards. And a right "Fiesta of the Flesh" it proves to be! From Marbella to Morocco, Xaviera lets it all hang out with a succession of companions whose varied tastes, hang-ups, and desires only go to prove the old adage--it takes all sorts. Especially in matters of the flesh!

Fiesta of the Flesh

Diamond Books

Xaviera and John's visit to Mexico started with a bang--and continued with a late night TV appearance that was hotter than a bowl of chili.  But their steamy relationship started to evaporate when Xaviera's old flame René arrived on the beach wearing a pair of tight leather trousers.  Back at his luxury ranch house, René had a gymnasium equipped for a particularly erotic kind of physical fitness--and Xaviera was eager to complete her education.  Meanwhile, John sampled the dusky charms of a shy Mexican maid, braved the insane antics of the Animal House--and pined for his wayward partner's return.  Could their relationship be saved?  Was this the end?  Not likely!  Here it is, the full enchilada, the complete uncensored account of Xaviera's Mexican stand-off.

Let's Get Moving

DRUMMOND, John

The Kiss of the Serpent, Xaviera Hollander

The Kiss of the Serpent

HARPERCOLLINS,AUSTRALIA

311 page paperback book telling about the life of the madame Xavier Hollander.

The Happy Hooker

MOORE, ROBIN

Dunleavy, Yvonne

Dell Publishing Company,Inc

Best Part of a Man

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Tandem

Xaviera Goes Wild!

Sociology

Warner Books, Inc.

She appeared on TV, in Time Magazine, she was front page news coast to coast. She's franke and controverial! She's the Happy hooker and she tells you all about it.

Dell Publishing

How did you first learn about sex? If you grew up in the 1970s, it may have been from a gleefully lusty tour guide named Xaviera HollanderIn 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. The Happy Hooker 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. The Happy Hooker is a classic: the world's greatest book on the world's oldest profession.

Happy Hooker

Dell Pub. Co.]

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The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

Child No More: A Memoir

Fiesta of the Flesh

Let's Get Moving

The Kiss of the Serpent

The Happy Hooker

Best Part of a Man

Xaviera Goes Wild!

The Happy Hooker

Happy Hooker