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Book: Diary of a Married Call Girl
Published on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:17, Updated on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:11 in Entertainment section
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New Delhi: A business which has a client list, a target quota, innovations, advertisements and investments. Maintenance costs are high but very necessary. And customer satisfaction is a high priority.
Sounds like any other ambitious business? Well, that's exactly how Tracy Quan describes New York's call girls' operations in her latest book, Diary of a Married Call Girl.
The book's not a sympathy seeker sex worker's saga. The book's intention is anything but to evoke pity. Rather, this book has two missions.
One is to sell like hot cakes, what with explicit details of a number of pornographic encounters. And secondly, to make a statement about sex work, seeking equal footing with other professions.
The book is a diary written by Nancy Chan, who is a woman in her thirties, happily married for a year to a guy, who doesn't know about Nancy's profession of a hooker.
What's interesting is that Nancy doesn't hook because of financial constraints – in fact, she hails from a well off family and is married to a successful investment banker.
The reason she hooks, and that is reiterated a number of times, is because she wants to be a full time professional making her own money, who has her own apartment and bank account.
The book looks into the lives of professional call girls who juggle between family lives and their professions.
Competition is hard in this profession and success is highly counted for. Interestingly, there are castes and levels among hookers and they distinguish on the basis of their own rules and ethics.
The author Tracy, who was a call girl herself before she took to writing, is maybe telling her own story through the novel's central character, Nancy.
Sex sells and that's well portrayed in the book which shows the booming market in the world's oldest profession.
Tracy takes advantage of that market and includes a lot of sex scenes in the book, which are quite unnecessary to the general plot and have been included primarily to titillate.
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well i didnt know that males seek liberation by doing pooja at sabarimala and drinking at pubs....salvation might be a
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Ah! now I understand what is women's liberation . let indians also follow suit aping the west. Perhaps it is
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What are't they liberated in asking for doing a pooja in sabrimala/drinking at pubs going out and haveing multipel partnersWell
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NCW and the Feminists would love to have a deshi version of this soon. Indian females should be as liberated
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