![]() ![]() Hollander would go on to write twenty-three other books, ranging from erotic fiction to sex education to misery memoir about losing her mother, as well as a column for Penthouse that ran for thirty-five years! Her book caught the public imagination and became an instant bestseller and erotic classic. ![]() At the height of the sexual revolution, Hollander’s career choice was sensibly seen as one of power and emancipation rather than choosing to be an exploited victim and possibly a trafficking statistic (the fact that she had ‘trafficked’ herself from Holland to the USA being neither here nor there) that would be the case today. In her case, it was The Happy Hooker, an autobiographical erotic book inspired by her life as a high-class call girl in manhattan, a career she chose after quitting her job as a secretary in the Dutch consulate – she was arrested and deported from the US in 1969, but her decision to write up her experiences proved to be an inspired one. Xaviera Hollander rose to fame in 1971, the right person at the right time with the right book. The life and times of the world’s most famous sex worker, and her curious LP. ![]()
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