The Call Girl

by Harold Greenwald

Thought to be a casualty of affluent society and the sexual revolution, prostitution, in all its forms, is still thriving. This is the book about the high-class call girl as she is now - the elegant prostitute - her psychology, her life, and the men in her life, those who pay her, and those to whom she gives away her money. In their own graphic words, the girls describe what it really feels like to be in "the life": the adolescent heartbreaks, the early pretenses that earned spurious love, the hangups that have to be shoved out of sight, the loneliness and emotional poverty of a life-style that perpetuates the self-contempt which predisposed them toward their profession. The firsthand material that the author has elicited is gripping and unforgettable. --- from book's cover

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published June 1, 1988

Reviews

[Hamza Ghellab · Rating 4 out of 5]

Weired analysis but quite interesting

[Jeff Keehr · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this way back in 1979 so my memory of it is murky at best. But I do recall that it was a careful study prostitutes. It was very good.