At Home on the Stroll: My Twenty Years as a Prostitute in Canada

by Alexandra Highcrest

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0676970532
• ISBN13: 9780676970531
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Ever wonder what being a prostitute is really like?

If you're intrigued, M's Highcrest has written a book about being a prostitute in Canada. M's Highcrest writes very honestly and openly what it's like to be a prostitute.M's Highcrest started life off as a male. Alex began receiving money for sex while in university, it seemed to him rather harmless at first and being a starving young student, the money came in handy. He did end up getting his degree as a teacher, but never used it. Alex became Alexandra, which she deals in some part in this book and continues to prostitute herself.Contrary to what most seem to think, according to M's Highcrest, most prostitutes are not drug addicted or stupid, they are looking at the economics of prostitution. Certainly a prostitute can make more money in 8 hours of work than most other jobs will pay - definitely the upside to prostitution. Of course, the downside is no health insurance, no protection under the law, no vacations or sick time. M's Highcrest covers these aspects as well as many others.Mis Highcrest's book is well written, sympathetic, funny and very frank about what her job demands from her. If you are the least bit squeamish about sex, you probably don't want to read this book. But if you want to read a book that strips away the "Pretty Woman" and Hollywood trappings surrounding prostitution, this is a great read.