Xaviera Hollander - The Happy Hooker & more...

As a child, my parent's had rather risque lifestyles and high libidos so porn was readily at hand at both my mom's and dad's residences. I was a rather curious and precocious child especially once my education increased. One of my favorite reads was "Call Me Madame" from the Penthouse magazine. I even used the name Xaviera in my high-school French class.

We've discussed the different perspectives and reasons why ladies become providers as we call ourselves now; but this woman showed incredible class and ingenuity at incorporating her literary skills, life experience, political savvy and business acumen to build an empire. What an incredible story!

You can visit her site for more insight here: http://www.xavierahollander.com/hooker

There are many other women we've celebrated for joining the ranks of the "oldest profession" as hookers with hearts of gold. They may have come into this realm due to sad circumstances, but stayed once they realized their own worth in being able to soothe those in need of a woman's touch or warmed by her selfless gift in giving herself. Not all ladies of the night are merely "in it for the money". Some find tremendous reward in bringing joy to others.

At a time when our world is suffering violence, apathy, economic strife and other woes, there's a growing need for human empathy and unconditional intimacy so that we don't forget that we are ALL under the same strains no matter what our specific situation.

Now is a time to CELEBRATE the fact that we have managed to maintain communities of hobbyists all around the world that remind us that despite its' monetary gain on one side, there is an EXCHANGE of equal value to the other in most cases. We at least have the tools at our disposal to insure an educated effort.

Let's all try to find something to cherish from our Hobby experiences that we can carry with us to reflect upon in darker times. We are after all... rebels with a cause!

Love to you all... especially the meanie butts, cuz that's just what you need!

XOXOX
Kat
Working for a Community of Unity

Hehe, I snuck into my dads porn too! I always loved reading Ms.Hollander

I forget what her autobiography was called...but I had a well worn copy back in 1973 that afforded many nights of pleasure whacking off.....

I also had a copy of "My Secret Life" by Anonymous...a Victorian novel.

I think those 2 books are what turned me into a fucking Horndog for life....

LOL Her auto-bio was "THE HAPPY HOOKER", Silly boy! XOXOX

LMAO I was busy answering a pm, but yeah what she said!

You'd think I would have remembered the name of the book.

It's only been 37 YEARS!

I remember when my sister found it and squealed to my Mom. It's not as if it was hidden, it was on my night stand.

Did anyone read "Wifey" by Judy Blume back in the day? I was in 7th grade when I read it & the other kids thought that was steamy stuff. Little did they know... LOL

Playboy. It did teach me one of life's most valuable lessons. Do not store biodegradables under the floor of your fort.

Hiding the Playboys under the bed... that was the 60s.

Sometime during the 2000s, I had to tell my kids that I would NOT buy another fucking keyboard if they kept "gumming up" the ones they had!

Times sure changed ... but little boys still jerk off whenever they can.

(So do big boys! And politicians! And religious leaders! And ... OK, never mind! I promised I wouldn't do that!)

I thought ya'll had socks for that?

My oldest got busted sneaking mags under mattress, pillow wherever he could hide one... after awhile b/f got tired covering for him and I had to ground him for stealing others things as I didn't want him to think looking at naked girls was wrong. They were the b/f vintage Playboys, so he really didn't see all that much.

I would find my older brothers Hustler mags look at them then show them to my mom. He would get in trouble then my dad would give them back to him. It was funny because my dad was buying them for him..

dont forget running up 500 dollar phone bills when the sex lines 1st came out

OMG... yeah one year I had to return xmas gifts... he was caught purchasing Playboy and Penthouse channels, like over a 100 worth, even though it asks you twice to confirm it was an a c c i d e n t.
Uh huh...

The sex phone lines did that once blamed that one on my pops....

Worked tech support for a cable company I heard that excuse all the time it was an accident.

My mom caught me reading the porn & we lived in the country at the time, so she burned it! Funny thing is that some of the books - including the one I had been reading at the time - didn't get destroyed. So, I dug them out & finished 'em. LOL

Good thing she never asked how that old Osterizer vibra-massager got all melted... & that was before the fire! *cough*cough*