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I’m reading  a newly published book – ‘West End Girls’ by Barbara Tate, it’s brilliant. Thanks R. xxx

It’s the memoirs of a prostitutes’ maid in 40′s/50′s Soho.

The dustcover says…

‘Barbara was seventeen when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho…

There, the naive Barbara met the beautiful and capricious Mae. When she takes a job as Mae’s maid, she imagines that she’ll be housekeeping. But down a shabby backstreet, Barbara discovers the secret lives of Soho’s working girls…

She will need to be nursemaid, protector and confidante to impossible, adorable, self destructive Mae…’

Barbara died last year before the book was published, what a shame. She was also an accomplished and successful painter, you can see her illustrations of the ladies on her website www.barbaratate.co.uk

I’m only halfway through, but it’s a great read. Buy it now!

I want this book NOW! Actually I do have it in a way, it was sent to me on a file, and it is a very good read. 

I would like to get the real book on my shelf though, so I might just have to do that. 

Thanks J! xxx

You can find out more at www.encyclopediaofprostitution.com

More later…off to read!

Update* Oh it’s GOOD, the WHORE book..they always are. Makes me punch the air with happiness.

More on Brassai later..too good!

(I’m visiting York  5-6-7 August, call or mail asap to arrange)

(I’m visiting Bristol  27-28-29 August, call or mail asap to arrange)

Tonight, my pal Bea was in town for a radio interview with Ian Collins on www.talksport.net and so we met up for some food and chat catch ups..we only drank water with lemon slices as she was off to the interview later!

You will know by now, that Bea is now a ‘naughty autobiographical author’, and yes…there is another book to come later! You can read this one first though..

A new blog too www.thegirlfriendexperience-bea.blogspot.com and that, is telling it like it is already. Book available at Amazon from there. In shops soon!

Being widely misinterpreted and edited like a half built jigsaw in national newspapers isn’t fun at all..but who in their right mind believes the tabloids anyway? Bea’s blog will put you right on the truth.

I am still waiting on my copy of GFE! Dying to read it…!

This is absolutely hilarious, equally sad..and when it was written, it was meant to be serious..

I read it out loud to myself in old ‘BBC’ received pronunciation English, spiffing splendid fun, what!

In 1894, Ruth Smythers the ‘beloved wife’ (how did this come about?) of the Reverend L.D. Smythers wrote:

‘While sex is at it’s best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured..’

Poor Ruthie was obviously married to a dreadful man who wasn’t very nice in the bedroom department.. What an awful life she must have led, the poor woman. She should have become a floozy..she would have had a better time of it!

So wrong, so sad, so oppressed, it’s comical and yet..it isn’t. I feel very sorry for dear Ruthie.

It’s called ‘SEX TIPS’, how curious a title..when it’s really a list of ‘how to not have sex at all’..

Here’s a few of those ‘tips’-

‘To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life’

‘On the negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first time, the terrible experience of sex’

‘Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude!’

‘A good wife should expect to have reduced sexual contacts to once a week by the end of the first year of marriage and to once a month by the end of the fifth year or marriage’

‘As time goes by, she should make every effort to reduce this frequency’

‘Feigned illness, sleepiness and headaches are among the wife’s best friends in this matter’

It gets better/worse/utterly horrifying ..it’s only £2.99 at Foyles Books.

Thank You Ruthie darling, Thank You…You are the reason I endure through the centuries, and always will..I wish I could have met you. I’m sure I would have made your life more bearable. Mind you..I would be much the poorer for it!

Ruthie may have survived better if she had access to something like www.littlebitcheaper.blogspot.com

If I was going to write a book..what should I call it?

Sort of borrowed/stole Russell Brands title for now!

Fashioned myself a hypothetical cover, as you can see.

YOU would all be SAFE if I did…! And I would be anonymous anyway..

Well this week, I have had a bit of a book buying frenzy. 13 new ones, to be exact.

Can you imagine my utter horror when I got these two shockers home.. and…I can barely tell you…discovered they were nothing at all to do with cooking? No, readers, they were certainly not.

I mean, photos of bananas on one, the word ‘tart’ on the other? Whatever were they thinking of?

I thought I was going to be indulging myself in the production of some delicious fruit laden desserts, but nay.. here I was…. faced with all manners of lascivious debauchery. I was so distraught, so disgusted, I had to sit down.. and personally read through every single page fastidiously,  just to be sure of the full horror inside. Three times, to be absolutely sure. One cannot be too sure of this modern filth that is being thrust upon us. Do not fear, for here are the very tomes, of which you should avoid of course.

Get around don’t I ? I just showed you my shop in Hong Kong, now here’s my Alaskan Boudoir. Sarah Palin? I chucked her in the Creek…

Dolly of the title, was Dolly Arthur, and yes, she was a lady of the boudoir too!

All the best dolls are…

I got this book a while ago as a gift (thanks B!) and found a write up online.

”Dolly’s House, 24 Creek Street, Ketchikan, is a residuum of the lusty past of a frontier Alaska town. Here “the Creek” was another name for the “line” where fishermen, miners–and some more genteel characters found entertainment and feminine companionship. Wonderful historical photographs and stories.” (June Allen)

I read it in one night, it’s an easy read.

June Allen met Dolly 3yrs before she died, to interview her for the book.

” Dolly Arthur, nee Thelma Copeland of rural Idaho mining country, was a Ketchikan resident from 1919 until her death in July 1975. She is probably Ketchikan’s most famous person today. She lies at peace in plot 4949 in Bayview Cemetery with men, strangers, buried next to her on either side. She would like that. Dolly said her attraction for men was one of her best traits. “I just liked men and they liked me, too!”

Her house on Creek Street is now a museum visited by thousands of tourists every summer. In her lifetime, however, there was nothing much to distinguish it from other small houses of ill repute along the boardwalk. There was always a temporary look to those little rain-scoured houses tottering atop piling, whose residents used the cleansing tides to serve as sewer, plus bottle (and occasionally body) disposal.

Dolly’s house, however, was not only her business but also her longtime home. Her claim to present fame was simply because of the more than 50 years she spent on Creek Street. She bought the house in 1919 and was still living there, alone, in the early ’70s. She became the last of the former ladies of the line to remain in residence on the creek until her death, which was 20 years after the red-light district was finally closed for good in 1954. ” (June Allen)

‘Water? Never touch the stuff, fish fuck in it’ – W.C.Fields.

Oh the brilliance!

I have a funny new book, ‘The Hedonism Handbook’ by Michael Flocker.