Whore of New York, Liara Roux
Whore of New York, Liara Roux
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Whore of New York
A Confession

Author: Liara Roux

Narrator: Liara Roux

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Repeater

Published: 11/02/2021


Synopsis

Liara Roux is accustomed to being mislabelled and misunderstood.

As a child, Liara’s inquisitive, instinctive, and rebellious nature was frequently problematised in a world designed around the requirements of their neurotypical, cis, heterosexual male colleagues. Coming of age in an oppressively restrictive home, they shuffled tarot and explored self portraiture to rationalise the injustice of chronic pain, toxic lovers, and the cruel silence of divinity.

Critiquing capitalism’s mechanisms of exploitation, the conservatism of Western medicine, and the politics surrounding sex work, Whore of New York: A Confession is a candid study of artistic awakening, and both spiritual and sexual growth after abuse, seen through the eyes of a proud outsider.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leib on October 20, 2021

Book Review "Whore of New York" 2/5 stars A well-off Sparkling White Girl monetizes her "oppression" and "trauma" ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆ This book is interesting to read because of the novelty of an autobiography of an autistic sex worker-- although it has lots of resonances to a similar book I've read--Karley Sciortin......more

Goodreads review by josie on January 10, 2022

DNF lol; the trend in memoirs to talk frankly about sexuality and sex work is a fundamentally good one, but i genuinely got nothing from the perspective of a conventionally beautiful white person with family wealth that i could not have gotten from writings of a sex worker who actually feels like wr......more

Goodreads review by Steven on December 27, 2021

Oddly self-satisfied. Cringing for the wrong reasons.......more

Goodreads review by Larissa on July 20, 2022

3.5 stars. I picked this up randomly at a bookstore and overall, I like what she shared and found that it opened my eyes to certain aspects of the sex work industry. It was a little all over the place at times and could have used a copy editor, but at the end of the day, I love a memoir that explore......more

Goodreads review by Max on October 14, 2021

I buy almost all my books used, but occasionally there’s something new I’m so excited to read that I bite the bullet and buy it at full price. This book was one of them, and it didn’t disappoint. Fascinating, tender, heartbreaking, and at times quite hot. I read it in one sitting.......more