title: Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry
author: Annie Oakley
description: "Annie Oakley doesn't need a gun. She's armed with fierce creativity, political passion, big brains and exquisite sexiness. Oakley leads a brilliant crew, which serves up whore culture at its most delicious and satisfying."<br /><br />"Sex work is commonly understood to be an occupation of last resort, taken up by people who live on society's margins. The Sex Workers' Art Show sets out to dispel those perceptions and to showcase the ways in which sex workers are in control of their bodies, their careers, and their self-respect."
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  BEST
  
   **U.S. $14.95 • Sexuality/Popular Culture**
  
  “...if you pay attention, you will find a remarkable portrait of sex
  
  the great Technicolor rainbow mash-up of American sex.”
  
  —From the Foreword by Brian Alexander,
  
  author of America Unzipped
  
  WRITING
  
  Best Sex Writing 2009 gathers the most provocative and note-worthy work of the
  year from journalists, investigative reporters, scholars, novelists, bloggers,
  and sex workers writing on the topic at the forefront of everyone’s mind: sex.
  From Supervirgins to sex toys, prostitution, and why bathroom sex is here to
  stay, to the little-discussed epidemic of impotence among Iraq War vet-2 0 0 9
  
  SELECTED
  
  EDITED BY
  
  erans, Best Sex Writing takes a incisive (and often surprising) AND INTRODUCED
  BY
  
  look at our sexual culture.
  
  RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL
  
  P R A I S E F O R B E S T S E X W R I T I N G :
  
  “Like a whole issue of The New Yorker if The New Yorker BRIAN
  
  gave any attention to sex