Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys is a collection of short memoirs, rants, confessions, nightmares, journalism, and poetry covering life, love, work, family, and yes, sex.
The editors gathered pieces from the world of industrial sex, including contributions from art-porn priestess Dr. Annie Sprinkle, Tracy Quan (author of Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl), best-selling memoirist David Henry Sterry (Chicken: Self Portrait of a Young Man for Rent), women and men right off the streets, and girls participating in the first ever National Summit of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth.
Bio
Lilycat
Lilycat, a.k.a. Melinda Adams, moved to San Francisco from New Orleans in 1988 to study Communications Arts/Broadcasting and became involved with the local arts scene. Since 1988, she has worked in radio, television, theater, and publications. She has been a board member of Venue 9, and run independent artist how to workshop series and a Rough Cut Film Festival.
Adams has produced events for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, drag queen and drag king groups, burlesque troupes, sex workers, film maker, and underground art. She has produced and stage managed for over 100 events.
Sam Formo
Sam Formo is a former sex worker from Vallejo. He spent twelve years in various fringe culture personas such as club kid, junkie, sweater queen, poet, performance artist, panhandler, counterfeit watch peddler, and thief.
His works can be read in Jennifer Blowdryer's Advice to Trendy People of All Ages, Persiflage and the ABC No Rio Open Mic Anthology.
Formo is currently working on a one-man show based on his memoirs. After spending many years in the world of non-profit, Sam decided to attend California College of the Arts to finish his fashion design degree.
R.J. Martin Jr.
R.J. Martin, Jr. was born in Bossier City Louisiana, the son of an Air Force pilot. When his father died in a plane crash in 1956, Richard and his mother moved back to New York City. At the age of seven, they moved to San Francisco, where Richard has lived ever since. At the age of 26, Richard became a barker at San Francisco's infamous Condor nightclub, the first venue in the United States to feature topless, and later, bottomless entertainment. This led to a period of employment in North Beach sex clubs in which he worked not only as a barker, but as a panderer, thief, con artist and business manager for a few independent businesswomen.
After a 20-year battle with heroin addiction, and facing a lengthy prison sentence, Mr. Martin entered treatment in 1996. From 2001 to 2004, he served as director of development at the SAGE Project, award-winning and internationally renowned nonprofit serving prostitutes and other survivors of trauma, abuse and addiction. In 2004, the Mayor of San Francisco presented Mr. Martin with a Certificate of Honor, recognizing the impact his work has had on the City. In that year, Mr. Martin also graduated San Francisco State University with a degree in English. He was accepted into the San Francisco State University Master of Arts Program in Creative Writing and at age 52, is still not the oldest person in the program. He has contributed to the forthcoming anthology Drugs, Thugs and Rock-n-Roll.
Diana Morgaine
Diana Morgaine is a writer, tarot reader, freelance editor and improv performer.
Formerly, she was the editor-in-chief of a Bay Area arts and culture magazine, and she holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
Carol Queen
Dr. Carol Queen is a writer and cultural sexologist with a doctorate of education in human sexuality. She is a noted essayist whose work has appeared in such publications as Male Lust, Whores and Other Feminists, The Erotic Impulse, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries and Visions, Madonnarama, and Women of the Light: The New Sacred Healer.
Her essay collection, Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, was published in 1997; it is used in Women's Studies, Queer Studies, and Cultural Studies classes in universities across America.
Her erotic stories can be found in Best Women's Erotica, the Herotica anthologies, Libido, and Best American Erotica 1993, 1994, and 2000, and in many other anthologies; her erotic novel, The Leather Daddy and the Femme, was published in 1998 and won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award the following year. Her first book, Exhibitionism for the Shy, published in 1995, explores issues of erotic self-esteem and enhancement.
Queen is co-editor of the anthologies Best Bisexual Erotica, Sex Spoken Here, Switch Hitters, and PoMoSexuals; the latter won a Lambda Literary Award in 1998. She has appeared in several explicit educational videos, notably Carol Queen's Great Vibrations: An Explicit Consumer Tour of Vibrators and Bend Over Boyfriend: An Adventurous Couple's Guide to Male Anal Pleasure.
Queen works as staff sexologist at Good Vibrations, the women-owned, worker-owned sex toy and bookstore in San Francisco, and writes regularly for the Good Vibrations web magazine at www.goodvibes.com. She has spent the last several years consulting with the company's emerging video production department, Sexpositive Productions, which released its first videos in 2001.
Selena Anne Shephard
Selena Anne Shephard is a fanciful, neurotic transvestite residing in the hills of Greenbrae, California, who makes explicit videos and occasionally "plays for pay."
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