Sex is a billion-dollar industry. CLICK HERE Meet the real people who are its flesh and blood. Ho’s, Hustlers, Callgirls & Rentboys strips away the myths, prejudices and misperceptions, and humanizes the men and women we pay for sex. They are PhDs and high school dropouts, soccer moms and jailbirds, $2,500-a-night call girls and $25 rentboys. This anthology gives voice to an underrepresented population simultaneously shamed and glamorized, ostracized and glorified, reviled and worshiped.

Hos, Hookers, Callgirls, and Rentboys is a collection of short memoirs, confessions, nightmares, journalism and poetry. It contains new writing from sex worker literati. But it also includes crack hos, male hustlers, pimps and the teenagers they exploit. Funny, terrifying, tragic and inspiring, this collection is unprecedented because it includes people from all walks of the sex for money world.

Melissa Petro:  Female sex workers grapple with the identity imposed upon them by their work. Women that work in the sex industry are women first. Through interview/oral history, and memoir, women in the sex industry have an opportunity to speak for themselves. We see how their jobs are similar and dissimilar to other people’s jobs, how their lives are like and unlike other women’s lives. How sex work is “women’s work.”