Mobsters’ molls, past lives, and required reading for the aspiring courtesan

Just today, Ashley mentioned the possibility that she might've been a mobster's mistress in a former life, and that she used to find John Gotti, Jr. quite hot. Don't think I’ve ever seen the boy myself, but I do know where she’s coming from on the mob moll thing. Yeah, you could probably say I've read way too many trashy novels and watched way too many episodes of The Sopranos and am more than likely talking out of my ass here, but being a goomah always looked like it'd be fun, as long as you kept your full-time job on the side and kept your head together without going overboard on the money, drugs, and adrenaline. Yeah, right. But I can easily see how the life of the comare might be preferable. A modern day courtesan, only under constant surveillance. It seems like a better bet than having to marry 'em, though.

Plus, there'd also be the added advantage of knowing someone who could be dispatched to bust someone else's kneecaps if they pissed you off badly enough.

But speaking of past lives, this chick I used to work with told me that in my former life, I was a madam in Harlem back in the 20's. I nearly kissed her. Sounded good to me, man. I'd do it now if I could, only if I had $50,000 stashed away for my legal fund.


Required reading:

Working by Dolores French

From Cop To Call-Girl by Norma Jean Almodovar

The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander

Color Me Flo: My Life and Good Times by Flo Kennedy

Mayflower Madam by Sydney Biddle Barrows

A Vindication of the Rights of Whores by Gail Pheterson and Margo St. James

Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan

Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry (anthology)

Susie Bright's Virtual Sex World Reader and How To Write a Dirty Story