num_pages: 366
description: Mattress Actress is the story of Annika Cleeve's eighteen years as a sex worker.Her troubled childhood in Queensland led to working in a brothel on the Sunshine Coast at the age of fifteen, and from there Annika worked her way up to the high-end parlours, agencies and private work in various parts of Australia and internationally.In this book Annika reveals the truth of a sex worker’s life; the clients, thegirls, the parlour bosses, the rip-off merchants, the drug deaths, the white slavery, the discrimination, the corrupt police and politicians, the exotic travel and the money.Mattress Actress is a revealing and gutsy look at someone practising the world’s oldest profession in the late twentieth century. From wide-eyed innocent to experienced and successful professional, Annika’s story is both shocking and highly entertaining.
language: English
title: Mattress Actress
publisher: Momentum