![]() ![]() and due to the contents within, discovered many, many other things.īorn Xaviera deVries in Indonesia on June 15, 1943, Xaviera Hollander (Picture- 1- 2) spent the first tender years of her life in a Japanese prison camp alongside her parents. One look at the cover of Hooker, with its shocking pink cover featuring a snap of ice-blonde, statuesque Xaviera fixing the reader with a half-lidded come-on stare, and these folks are instantly transported back to the day they discovered the well-worn bio. ![]() And immediately the pimply pubescents are ushered into a magical new world filled with thoughts of flesh and boners.įor people of a certain age, that book was The Happy Hooker, a 1971 tell-all written by Dutch treat Xaviera Hollander, an unabashed and unashamed exploration of her rise to the top of the brothel biz in the Big Apple. And then one day, their children, casually browsing Mom and Dad’s bookshelf, come across the book, with its creased and worn spine, and pick it up for a quick thumb-through. One lascivious book makes its way into the mainstream and is picked up by even the most staid and uptight of people. ![]()
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