Sex Worker Memoirs
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Literary self-confession emerges as a trend among former sex workers around the world:
[Rachel] Pacheco is one of an increasing number of Brazilian prostitutes turning to literature. A contemporary from the southern state of Santa Catarina recently launched Diario de Marise (Marise’s Diary), while hundreds of blogs are springing up in towns as far apart as Belem, Recife, Manaus, Natal and Maceio. The sex workers tell the stories of their daily lives, touching on everything from discrimination to dildos, forced slavery to fellatio.
