num_pages: 359
description: Bessie is my lover. She is a “prostitute” but that’s not important to me. At age thirty-five, she decided to find out if she could be really great at having sex with strangers for money. At the beginning of “Intimate Acts with Strangers” she is thirty-seven, and is, indeed, really great at having sex for money. These 359 pages document how she came to be one of the most celebrated escorts in Seattle. At the same time, Bessie is also the mother of three young children. She lives with her husband and kids in a middle-class suburb of Seattle. She could be your neighbor that does creative craft projects with your kids on her kitchen table when they come over for a “play date.” There could be someone just like her living next door to you. She could even be you.The main questions this book addresses are: Why do so many married men pay for sex? And what are the realities of the apartment-based sex providers who sell it to them? “Intimate Acts with Strangers” gives you a rare insight into the motivations behind these seemingly cold transactions. Despite some extremely erotic and playful scenes, this book ends up being a very serious document about the unfairness of the way prostitutes (and their clients) are regarded and a raw, hopefully inspiring journey of two people exploring their sexual liberation. Once you’ve read it, you may love it or you may hate it, but more importantly, you should talk about why it affected you the way it did.There are hundreds of thousands of women like Bessie all over America, but the mass media hasn’t a clue what their lives are really like. When the Bessies of America read this book, they’ll say, “At last, someone portrays what really goes on behind my apartment door.” You’ll say, “At last I know why those apartment doors exist.”We should warn you, though: there is real trouble ahead for all of us -- Bessie, me, and yes, even you, intrepid reader. Our senses of propriety, our sexual boundaries and our notions of true love are all on the line here. Bessie and I would not have gone to the trouble of opening up our complicated lives to you if we didn’t want to put more great sex into the world. But at the same time, we want something more from your reading our story. As one Goodreads reviewer put it “This is a true love story! Real life synchronicity, the universe moving two people into alignment against all odds.” Great sex makes a lot of trouble almost worthwhile. When you find a great love to go with it, trouble doesn’t stand a chance. Adult content: contains graphic sexual scenes and subject matter.
language: English
title: Intimate Acts with Strangers