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The Happy Hooker
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story | Xaviera Hollander
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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.
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lalatiburona
lalatiburona
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story | Xaviera Hollander
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I love finding new coffee shops in which to try catching up on my TBR pile...

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lalatiburona
lalatiburona
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story | Xaviera Hollander
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Whoever said you can't work and play at the same time? 🤓

CouronneDhiver 👍🏽 5y
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guinsgirlreads
guinsgirlreads
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story | Xaviera Hollander
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The boat in Trouble Maker is The Happy Hooker.. a book reference? Or just another pun of their name?! 😂🧘🏻‍♀️ #letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon

@Clwojick @TricksyTails

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guinsgirlreads
guinsgirlreads
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story | Xaviera Hollander
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I had to snap this picture of my boyfriend (who is not a reader) reading the back of The Happy Hooker. It's what I was reading when we first started dating and he was like whaaaattt?! It's still his picture when he calls haha #someoneelsereading #fallintobooks @RealLifeReading

LauraBeth 😂😂 7y
RealLifeReading Awesome! 7y
Snow Are you at a bar--and does he just have a flashlight WITH him? 😆👏 7y
guinsgirlreads Both! I was working lol and he always has a flashlight with him😂😂 7y
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Sweettartlaura
Sweettartlaura
Happy Hooker | Xaviera Hollander
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This was my first ever #DNF - I was 10 when I picked it up at my grandmother's and read wayyyyyyy too much of it before I slammed it closed and ran away - nuff said?😜

Cinfhen 😂😂😂 7y
Cinfhen At least she was a "Happy"hooker!!! 7y
Sweettartlaura @Cinfhen She was happy alright 😜 7y
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Cinfhen Heheheh🤣🤣🤣 7y
tpixie Lol. It was at my Aunts!! The 1970's! 7y
JenP 😂😂😂 7y
valeriegeary Oh my. 😂 7y
Reviewsbylola 😂😂😂😂 7y
Sweettartlaura @tpixie I didn't see this til the 80s - guess this was a book that just wouldn't die 😂 7y
tpixie Lol. It's a Classic!! 😝😜😂 7y
rubyslippersreads I'd forgotten all about this book. (Which is probably for the best.) 😂 7y
Godmotherx5 Hope you weren't scarred by the book 📚 7y
tpixie @Godmotherx5 exactly!! Luckily I survived without trauma! 7y
Sweettartlaura @Godmotherx5 I kinda was 😮. There's a thing or two stuck in my brain that I wish I could scour out with bleach. 7y
Sweettartlaura @rubyslippersreads Lucky you 😂. Sorry to bring it back into your consciousness 😜 7y
rubyslippersreads @Sweettartlaura Thankfully, I never read it, but I remember that cover. 😝 7y
Sweettartlaura 😂. Oh, you dodged a bullet here - phew😜, @rubyslippersreads 7y
Godmotherx5 @Sweettartlaura At least you still like books... 7y
Sweettartlaura @Godmotherx5 I certainly do😍📚📚📚📚📚 7y
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Lola
Lola
Happy Hooker | Xaviera Hollander
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#FunFridayphoto My first adult book. I cringe now to think about it and I am decades beyond the 10 year old I was when I found this one. My mother loved to knit. I thought it was about knitting. I.thought.it.was.about.knitting. Spoiler alert: it isn't. @Liberty

Well-ReadNeck 😂😂😂😂😂😂 8y
CherylDeFranceschi Ha! Our dad had this one hidden and my friends and I used to read out of it all the time! We, um, learned a lot. And yeah, there's something in there I'm still traumatized about! 8y
Sue Bahahahahaha!!! 8y
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Coleen Hahahaha! That's great! 😂 8y
SarahK Love it! 8y
Mayread After accidentally viewing porn i kept making jokes about three fishermen in a boat. I thought they were hookers bc of the hooks. 8y
Titania 😂😂😂😂 8y
[DELETED] 2232195534 I had totally forgotten about this book! 😂😂😂 8y
JoeStalksBeck Wow! I remember finding this in the bathroom drawer when I was a kid lol! Not sure if it was moms or dads! 8y
julieloverofbooks Omg Lololol 8y
ReadingEnvy At least she was happy? Hahahaha. 😜 8y
LitHousewife I saw that book at a lot of houses where I babysat. I was always curious. 8y
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Sweettartlaura
Sweettartlaura
Happy Hooker | Xaviera Hollander
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For #funphotofriday, here's my first adult book... In every sense of the word 😜. I was 10. At my grandmother's, I would go to her back bedroom and read her Reader's Digest Condensed books. One day, this was back there. And I read it, & nobody stopped me. It was pretty horrifying, especially for a 10 year old. I got pretty far before I put it down & ran away. To this day, it's one of the few books I never finished, & never will 😂 @Liberty

LauraBeth Your post made me 😂 8y
SusanInTiburon Oh, ew, I would have run away too! 😝 8y
britt_brooke 😂 8y
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Reviewsbylola Hahahahaha. This is great! 8y
CherylDeFranceschi Yes. I'm still traumatized by something I read in there! 8y
Sweettartlaura @CherylDeFranceschi I could make a good guess as to what part it was 😏. It was allllllll really tough for a 10 year old to take in. But I hung in there...until I got to this one particular point ... by a pool ... and that was it for my little brain😮😢 8y
Sweettartlaura Incidentally I saw her on a talk show on the ...40th (maybe?) anniversary of its publication. She was being lauded for being a pioneer in women's sexuality. No, I said, just no. And I couldn't watch anymore just like I couldn't read any more 😂 8y
Melkyl And I thought I was bad because I used to read the dirty parts of the Harlequin Romance novels that the lady I babysat for had at her house 😂 8y
Sweettartlaura Oh, @Melwilk , if only it had been that innocent 😂 8y
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