Toot Toot: On becoming a john

The author examines the controversial subject of the relationship between prostitutes and their customers from a different perspective; from that of the john. As we delve into the lives of the women he dates, we discover both their strengths and their vulnerabilities, but also revealed is the narrator's own troubled, vulnerable emotional makeup.

Although told with tenderness and sensitivity. the telling is raw and vivid as the women conduct their business and the buyer of the sex for hire se...