Excerpt from "The Johns"

[moviefan]

The Globe and Mail has an excerpt from "The Johns," the book by Victor Malarek (a follow-up to The Natashas), in the Focus section of today's newspaper.

It is the story of what went on at a john school.

Unfortunately, it isn't available online for copyright reasons so I can't link to it.

 

[The LoLRus]

I'm glad its not available since I dont really wanna read it.

Why do these idiots bother trying to "expose" the oldest profession in the world.
Do they really think they're gonna rid the world of it??

 

[tersey]

I'm glad its not available since I dont really wanna read it.

Why do these idiots bother trying to "expose" the oldest profession in the world.
Do they really think they're gonna rid the world of it??

I suppose because it makes for "titillating" reading.

 

[The LoLRus]

I suppose because it makes for "titillating" reading.

An unintentional pun, I like it

 

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

I'm glad its not available since I dont really wanna read it.

Why do these idiots bother trying to "expose" the oldest profession in the world.
Do they really think they're gonna rid the world of it??

Because journalist are parasites that hide behind THE PUBLICS RIGHT TO KNOW. Is it the PUBLICS RIGHT TO see footage of a woman crying after she lost 3 members of her family in gun violence? Is it the PUBLICS RIGHT to see a half naked man after he was blown out of his house after a gas explosion? Bottom line, many of them profit from misery.

 

[alexmst]

Victor Malarek is a moron who understands nothing about the business. I read reviews of his book and his claims are not applicable to the mainstream Canadian industry at all. He is one of those "All Johns are evil slashers" types who think clients set out on an evil mission to dehumanize women by destroying their lives. What he writes about sex slavery in the Balkans, etc is nasty stuff, but that is not what happens in the mainstream Toronto industry. He only interviewed 16 clients and took a selective bit of content from SP/client website boards.

One review of the book makes note that the author needs to be taken to task for presenting a one-sided picture to further his own political agenda of banning all prostitution:

http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=6477

"Malarek must also be taken to task for his claim that “prostitution – all prostitution – is not about choice.” The six-year-old Thai girl forced to administer to sex tourists, or the Moldovan teenager who’s kidnapped and shipped to Serbia for repeated raping, inhabit a world far different than the high-society pros who serviced Charlie Sheen and Eliot Spitzer for thousands of dollars an hour. It has to be acknowledged that some prostitutes do exercise significant agency in their lives." Malarek sees all prostitutes as victims requiring saving by the law.