It’s okay to be turned on by Modern Whore (320 pages, Strange Light), the sex work memoir from Andrea Werhun now available in a new “engorged” edition.
There are traumatic stories in Werhun’s memoir involving assault and exploitation. But there are also stories that arouse, like her vivid and visceral account of working at a Toronto strip club and giving a client a steamy lap dance in the champagne room where she took as much pleasure as she gave.
“That one’s a hot one,” says Werhun, about the real-life story added to Modern Whore’s part two, which is dubbed Postmodern Whore. “That was meant to be an erotica story.”
“We’re welcoming people to enjoy the sensual experience of this book,” says photographer Nicole Bazuin, pointing out that it comes with a nude centrefold.
The book is a compilation of experience, packaged with political purpose and Bazuin’s artfully directed photos that are can be both tasteful and titillating.
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There are traumatic stories in Werhun’s memoir involving assault and exploitation. But there are also stories that arouse, like her vivid and visceral account of working at a Toronto strip club and giving a client a steamy lap dance in the champagne room where she took as much pleasure as she gave.
“That one’s a hot one,” says Werhun, about the real-life story added to Modern Whore’s part two, which is dubbed Postmodern Whore. “That was meant to be an erotica story.”
“We’re welcoming people to enjoy the sensual experience of this book,” says photographer Nicole Bazuin, pointing out that it comes with a nude centrefold.
The book is a compilation of experience, packaged with political purpose and Bazuin’s artfully directed photos that are can be both tasteful and titillating.
All new Modern Whore is like The Godfather Part II of sex work memoirs
Author Andrea Werhun and photographer Nicole Bazuin expand Modern Whore, their compilation of titillating sex work stories and images
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