02344cam a2200349 i 4500 1804146621 TxAuBib 20241212120000.0 231021s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982126865 hardcover $25.99 1982126868 hardcover $25.99 (OCoLC)1405187569 TxAuBib rda Shane, Charlotte, author. An honest woman : a memoir of love and sex work / Charlotte Shane. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2024] 175 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women's studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital dovetailed with her own insatiable desire for intimacy to sustain a long career in escorting, with unexpectedly poignant results. Shane uses her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at romantic and sexual bonding, no matter how true their intentions. As she takes stock of her relationships, with clients, with her father, with friends, with married men, and later, with her own husband, she tells a candid and haunting tale of love, marriage, and (in)fidelity, as seen through the eyes of the perpetual "other woman." Braiding the personal and the universal, Shane's memoir is a merciless and moving love letter to straight men and an indictment of habitual dishonesty, a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions, and a hopeful affirmation of the possibility for true connection between men and women. 20241212. Shane, Charlotte (Author.) Prostitutes United States Biography. Sex workers United States Biography. Prostitution United States. Heterosexual women United States Social conditions. Man-woman relationships United States. Misogyny United States. TXKIP