This is a sad erotica. Or not even an erotica at all: the sex scenes are so dry and the portrayal of prostitution so unglamourous (responsible, even), that I don't think it s even meant to be erotica a all.
But the biggest highlight is the undeniable, intermittent WTF moments in this novella.
Seriously, it doesn't stop.
At first it's a client that says “fucking money” and compares himself to god every 5 seconds (I almost stop reading at this point). We see some very witty one-liners by the narrator, until the narrator decides it's time to stop stripping and become a prostitute. And the stream of WTF-uckery begin.
“...I just felt tired. Couldn't men just agree to pay me without m having to prance around and stroke their egos first?”I told you it was sad.
She lives with Dream, a disabled adoptive mother who can't walk by herself very well. It is to give a better support for her that she becomes a prostitute. She decides to prostitute herself in Canada, and comes this:
“I wrapped Dream in blankets and put her in my black plastic sled, and I pulled her out to the road, warmed the van up, and started the long drive south.”Is that how you transport people in Alaska? By making a human burrito? On a sled?
“...just like I instructed in the etiquette section of my website”. Apparently, escorting sites have etiquette sections. (Boy, I'm curious).
“whore tour for a couple of weeks.” Are there whore tours?
“I rub his semen into my breast. This is the elixir of life.”
“I'm glad that I can get my noncommittal super casual yet meaningful intimacy by selling it instead of being someone with a penis who has to buy it.”
“Usually people are rapists because they don't want to admit the gaping hole of need inside them.”
And I finally learned to plural of penis:
“I need to fuck more old dudes to learn about their penii.”(Note here that we're talking about a prostitute who's committed to performance improvement.)
And, to finish, my favorite:
“I'm supposed to lap the praise from his hands like a needy little puppy who hates herself the way women in patriarchy are supposed to.”