Research Catalog

Title

Paying for it : a comic-strip memoir about being a john / Chester Brown.

Author

Brown, Chester, 1960-

Publication

Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Small Press Expo Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Description

viii, 280 pages : chiefly illustrations

Summary

Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work--from the timid john who rides his bike to meet his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of cliches street corners, drugs, or primps.

Subject

• Brown, Chester, 1960- > Comic books, strips, etc
• Brown, Chester, 1960- > Sexualité > Bandes dessinées
• Brown, Chester, 1960-
• Brown, Chester
• Prostitution > Comic books, strips, etc
• Sexual ethics > Comic books, strips, etc
• Prostitutes' customers > Comic books, strips, etc
• Clients de la prostitution > Bandes dessinées
• Morale sexuelle > Bandes dessinées
• Prostitutes' customers
• Prostitution
• Sexual ethics
• Prostitution
• Comic
• Englisch
• Prostitution > Canada
• Sexual ethics
• Kanada

Genre/Form

• Canadian fiction.
• Romans graphiques.
• graphic novels.
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Graphic novels
• Comic books, strips, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / by Robert Crumb -- Foreword / Chester Brown -- My last girlfriend -- Carla -- Angelina -- Anne -- Back to Angelina -- Back to Anne -- Amanda -- Back to Anne -- Susan -- Back to Anne -- Wendy -- Back to Anne -- Diane -- Danielle -- Jolene -- Back to Anne -- Yvette -- Gwendolyn -- Alexis -- Hillary -- Beatrice -- Myra -- The move -- Jenna -- Kitty -- Larissa -- Arlene -- Edith -- Laura -- Denise -- Nancy -- Millie -- Back to monogamy -- Afterword -- Appendix 1. The normalization of prostitution -- Appendix 2. Sexual rights -- Appendix 3. More on the normalization of prostitution -- Appendix 4. You own your body -- Appendix 5. Johns don't buy women -- Appendix 6. Power -- Appendix 7. Money's influence -- Appendix 8. Self respect -- Appendix 9. Choice -- Appendix 10. Violence -- Appendix 11. Sexual objectification -- Appendix 12. Human trafficking and sex slaves -- Appendix 13. Pimping -- Appendix 14. Exploitation -- Appendix 15. The commercialization of the sacred -- Appendix 16. Nevada -- Appendix 17. Drugs -- Appendix 18. Marriage -- Appendix 19. Taxation -- Appendix 20. Streetwalking -- Appendix 21. Male prostitution -- Appendix 22. Licencing and working at home -- Appendix 23. Seth's notes.

ISBN

• 9781770460485
• 1770460489

LCCN

2016591815

OCLC

• 682894289
• SCSB-12574137

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library