Life and miracles of a "sexual beast"

This book is part of a long tradition of autobiographies by what are now called "sex workers." And it is being published now, just as the publication ofStory of my eight sins, by Lea Ferrer (pseudonym). Both volumes are among those offered on Amazon under the heading Real facts.

It is obvious that the confessions of a escort always generate a certain morbidity. If this one, in addition, is dedicated to sugar dating (the search for a godfather to pay for his whims), the book in question can generate infinite curiosity.

The protagonist of Confessions of a 'sugar baby' She is a young woman from Valencia who, since she was 18, decided to dedicate herself to the world of prostitution. When she started writing her text, she was 20, a university student in Valencia, and already had a select clientele. Addis Ababa sugar, most of them caught on a famous dating website.

Valeria (fictitious name), the protagonist, turned 18 at the exact moment the coronavirus pandemic broke out. The chili pepper caught her in her second year of high school. There, she was made to read. Diamond Square and the Book of Wonders of Vicent Andrés EstellésAnd she enjoyed them, but the title that marked her the most was Eleven minutes, by Paulo Coelho, which tells the story of the transatlantic sexual adventure – also real – of a Brazilian woman.

We had already found this figure of the whore reader and, let's say, intellectual, for example, in the newspaper Light at the end of the dead end, by Ramon Ramon. In this volume, the Valencian poet and journalist explains the surprise of meeting, in an urban brothel, a prostitute who had read Estellés and Joan Fuster, and with whom the dialogue was not simply...

And yet, what's most surprising about Valeria, Lea Ferrer, or the anonymous scumbag Ramon Ramon is their complete absence of the feeling of being a victim of anything. In today's world, where anyone who isn't a victim of something (or feels like one) is a nobody, Valeria conveys to us the pride and immense pleasure she derives from her profession, without any qualms, without any remorse. She confesses to being "a sexual beast" (they used to call it nymphomaniacs) and is especially happy to have turned her hobby (for her, fucking is like going to the gym) into a more than reliable means of making a living.

Perhaps supporters of abolishing prostitution should read a book like this. Abolitionism is based on very respectable moral principles, but also, probably, on a fundamental misunderstanding: believing that the "sex workers" cited here have any relationship with the victims—these are indeed victims—of human trafficking and global mafias. Not everyone who drinks a glass of French champagne for dessert is a candidate for membership in Alcoholics Anonymous...

A book against the world of moral superiority

In the background, Confessions of a 'sugar baby' It is an optimistic and vital book that conveys the protagonist's zest for life, even if it's against the world (against the world of good manners and moral superiority). And it is also, to a large extent, a tribute to the city of Valencia. That open, permissive, and liberal city that she discovers at the age of 18 when she goes to university. The city previously internalized emotionally in the passionate chronicle of the Book of Wonders and where Valeria will experience an intense feeling of freedom after a troubled adolescence (bitten by anorexia) and a deep desire to escape from her small town.

Valeria's voracious reading led her to discover a title that is now only found in libraries: The queen of the village of female sinnersThis work by Ferran Cremades i Arlandis, published in 1980, recreates in medieval Catalan life in the largest and most famous brothel in 15th-century Europe, which occupied a private neighborhood in Valencia at the time.

Now, as then, venal love still circulates through her. And Confessions of a 'sugar baby' It's his last hit.