On Sale: Sep 13, 2006
Page Count: 256 pages
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN-13: 9781580051699

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A true story of a woman with a “head for business and a body for sin,” Indecent chronicles the real work and emotion behind the carnal adult sex industry

Indecent is not your average I-stripped-my-way-through-college memoir. Sarah Katherine Lewis is a veteran of the sex industry who started small — doing lingerie modeling and striptease shows — but for reasons including the desire to earn more money and curiosity about other types of sex work moved into porn, and ultimately into illegal work.

Lewis is smart, self-aware, and bitingly funny. Where other writers in this genre have generally shielded themselves from letting things get too bad or go too far, Lewis comes face-to-face with the unimaginable. Her experiences with customers, whose fetishes and behaviors range from obscene to bizarre to twisted, are often recounted with outrageous and caustic humor. Lewis is a brilliant observer of human nature and has a read on her employers and coworkers that lends unique insight into the seedy underground of the more hardcore sex industry. Lewis is a sex worker by choice. She neither condemns nor condones the work, though she depicts her experiences with a gallows humor that reveals the complexity of professional adult sex work. Indecent offers readers an insider’s account of hard-earned lessons and acute insight gained from over a decade in the trenches of one of America’s most insidious and lucrative industries.

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Sarah Katherine Lewis is thirty-four years old and has been working in the sex industry for over a decade, in Seattle, Portland, and New Orleans. She's worked as a stripper, a lingerie model, a phone sex operator, a dominatrix, a bodyworker, a live-stream adult web performer, an XXX model, and a porn star. Lewis was featured on NPR, reading a piece from her blog, and will appear in the upcoming documentary film called Pornography: Who's It Hurting?

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Sarah Katherine Lewis

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Sarah-Katherine Lewis is thirty-five-years-old and the author of Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire. She has been working in the sex industry for over a decade, in Seattle, Portland, New York City, and New Orleans. She’s worked as a stripper, a lingerie model, a phone sex operator, a dominatrix, a prostitute, a live-stream adult web performer, an XXX model, and a porn star. She has been keeping a blog for several years and has a regular readership of approximately 1,000 people. She was featured on NPR, reading a piece from her blog, and will appear in the upcoming documentary film Pornography: Who’s It Hurting?

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