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Diary of a Transvestite HookerBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr.Pseudonym: Randy, as told to Dick Trent, 1973

 Item — Box: 2

Scope and Contents

Publisher: Eros Publishing Co., Wilmington, Del. Photo Illustrated (b&w) [an Eros Goldstripe production, a telling of escapades in the life of transvestite hooker, told in the pictorial style. Page 173: "Summation – One might ask the question: ‘Why the life of a prostitute?’ of any number of prostitutes and there would be just as many, individually different answers...but their answers might not be considered true answers by the sociologists, sexologists and psychiatrists, because the girls themselves don’t have any true answers for themselves and why they first decided upon the profession. But the answers they give have some measure of truth, because those answers are what they believe." Page 177: "Thus it is with whores who would also like to glamorize their profession...and make a lot of money from their books in doing so... there is always a ready market for the lurid stories they reveal...imagined or otherwise...a madam, or working prostitute wrote it, therefore everything she says must be true...she lived through it. The public as well as the publisher will savor this type of material. If they were to paint their profession and what they did as some sort of dirty episode in history, then they themselves must have been dirty. Therefore...picture me pink..."]

Dates

  • 1973

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)

Physical Description

Pages: 182

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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