The Happy Hooker

Xaviera Hollander

She appeared on TV, in Time Magazine, she was front page news coast to coast. She's frank and controverial! She's the Happy hooker and she tells you all about it. In 1968, Xaviera Hollander left her job as the secretary of the Dutch consulate in Manhattan to become a call girl, where she made $1,000 a night.

A year later she opened her own brothel called the Vertical Whorehouse and soon became New York City's leading madam. In 1971, she was arrested for prostitution by New York police and was forced to leave the U.S. In 1971 Hollander published a memoir, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story that she co-authored with Robin Moore and Yvonne Dunleavy. The book was notable for its frankness by the standards of the time, and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex, if you can get past the language.

Hollander details in the book her life as a liberal and open-minded girl. She states that at the start of her career she did not ask for cash in exchange for sex, but her partners voluntarily gave her money and other presents. She also states that her favorite were "Jewish" types.

312 pages

Dell Publishing

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