Puta y libre

How did the decision to be a whore come about? What is the moment when you explain yourself to a mother? Do prostitutes fall in love? What about your pleasure and desire? Does the customer profile exist? Are freedom and sex work at odds? What are the authentic demands of the majority of the collective of prostitutes? Is abolitionism the solution? These are just some of the hundreds of questions, so far in the air, that find an answer in these pages that will change your vision of prostitution. Lucid, kind, honest and revolutionary, this revealing autobiographical essay shows us that prostitution is less sordid than we think, despite the stigma that marks the lives of all the women who practice it. Valérie May, who decided to abandon her activity as a social integrator to become a sex worker and activist for the rights of prostitutes, bares her soul in this emotionally charged book to make a global analysis of prostitution and get closer to the unknown reality of these uncomfortable and insolent women, who, through their sexual disobedience, challenge a repressive and contradictory system, determined to infantilize sex workers. Each of her lines is written with the hope that one day making decisions about one's life will not be criminalized and that sex work can be carried out safely and with guarantees and will finally obtain the recognition it deserves.