The Happy Hooker

My Own Story

Xaviera Hollander, Robin Moore, Yvonne Dunleavy

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780060014162
• eBook ISBN:
  9780062116611
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

The thirtieth anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution—with a new Afterword by the author.

How did  you first learn about sex? If you grew up in the 1970s, it may have been from a gleefully lusty tour guide named Xaviera Hollander.

In the late 1960s—that era of sexual chaos, when Playboy Clubs and love-ins were competing for national attention—a beautiful, intelligent young Dutch secretary named Xaviera de Vries moved to New York, grew swiftly tired of her desk job . . . and soon became the most visible and glamorous madam the city had ever seen. As Xaviera Hollander, she published a shockingly candid account of her life behind the brothel door.  The Happy Hooker shot straight to the top of the bestseller lists, sold more than fifteen million copies, and made this enterprising young woman an international phenomenon.

Thirty years later, these delightfully explicit tales of the '60s and '70s swingers' scene—including countless jaw-dropping stories of lesbianism, bondage, fetishism, and more—remain as titillating as ever, charged with the mix of shrewd observation and uninhibited appetite that made Hollander an irresistible storyteller.  The Happy Hooker is a classic: the world's greatest book on the world's oldest profession.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Chapter One - Rubber Souls
• Chapter Two - A Family Affair
• Chapter Three - South Africa
• Chapter Four - Dutch Treat
• Chapter Five - What’s a Girl Like Me?
• Chapter Six - Shakedown
• Chapter Seven - Arrests
• Chapter Eight - Puerto Rico
• Chapter Nine - Call Me Madam
• Chapter Ten - The Oldest Profession, or, Behind Open Doors
• Chapter Eleven - Different Strokes for Different Folks, or, Wall Street and Me
• Chapter Twelve - Whipped (S)cream!
• Chapter Thirteen - An Adult Tale , or, Fantasy and Me
• Chapter Fourteen - The Business of Pleasure
• Chapter Fifteen - For Pleasure More Than Profit
• Chapter Sixteen - Ships in the Night
• Chapter Seventeen - Abe the Bugger
• Epilogue - 30 Years Later
• About the Author
• Books by Xaviera Hollander
• Credits
• Copyright
• About the Publisher