Have you ever wondered what really goes on behind the closed doors of a strip club? Those sort of hidden and somewhat shady-appearing "massage parlors" or "tanning salons"?
Have you ever wondered what kind of a woman would choose to work in the adult entertainment industry?
If you have, then Indecent is *the* book for you. If you haven't...well, I would still say that this book is worth skimming through at least. Who knows, maybe you'll even find it worth actually reading... ;)
Written by a former sex worker (even though last I checked she was still working in the adult entertainment industry), Sarah Katherine Lewis gives her readers a rather sobering image of what actually goes on in this industry. I'm not going to say that the book was all good. There were some areas of the book that went by rather slowly, other areas were not as fleshed out as I would have liked them to be, and at some parts it just felt like she did not like anyone other than her colleagues. However, as life usually goes, not all is as it seems and I found out that Sarah Katherine Lewis is an unbelievably kind and sincere human being.
Her writing might seem harsh or vulgar to some at times, but overall, she reminds you of one of your friends. (At least that was the case with me.) She even manages to bring quite a bit of humor to an industry that seems to be unbelievably serious and in some areas more than just plain disgusting.
Another area of note is the way this autobiography is divided up. You do not only see the standard chapters, but also subchapters. Both the chapters and subchapters have their own unique titles, such as Holy Hand Jobs and Pussy Sweatshop as chapter titles, and various song titles as the subchapter titles.
One of the things I liked the most about Indecent, other than the book in general, was how Sarah K. Lewis described her journey from being an adult entertainment "virgin" to becoming a kind of jack...or jill of all trades in the sex industry.
Her use of vivid descriptions helps the reader step inside the world and mind of a sex worker...regardless of whether it is Ms. Lewis talking about her on-the-job "training" at a "tanning salon", her customers somehow being mysteriously and maybe even subconsciously drawn to each other's bodily fluids, her feelings about a special breed of customers she calls "relaters", how even doctors can become completely ignorant jerkwads once most or all of their blood manages to flow to their other head, or even her mentioning something as seemingly common as body image issues off and on throughout the book.
Overall, this book is a great read. You do not even have to be obsessed with sex, as I obviously seem to be to, to be able to somewhat like this book. Some of you might be disgusted with a few parts of this book, but I'm sure that if you take a look at each of your lives up until now, you should be more than able to find something that others might find remotely disgusting. Yes, life can also be highly disgusting at times...get used to it.
The way I see this book is that it is more a peek at a woman's journey in one of the most controversial and toughest industries that the free world has to offer. I can also pretty much guarantee that after you have read this book, you will most likely be ever so slightly grateful for the job you have, even though once you boil sex work down to its basic components, you will be hard-pressed to find any major differences (if any at all) between sex work and any other type of job in the service sector.
Well, that is it for me. Please let me know how you like Indecent should any of you decide to read it.
Thanks everyone! Hope you liked my review.
Love you all and thank you Sarah for responding to my message! I can't tell you how happy I was to read it!
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