20. Max Wolf Valerio - The Testosterone Files
(Full book title doesn't fit in the subject; it is The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male.)
Note: Max Valerio is the same person as Anita Valerio, as published in This Bridge Called My Back, which I know has been reviewed here. It would be nice if we could easily find all his works together through the ( Read more... )
Note: Max Valerio is the same person as Anita Valerio, as published in This Bridge Called My Back, which I know has been reviewed here. It would be nice if we could easily find all his works together through the ( Read more... )
As for men as the prey of sex workers (I guess I remembered it as men in general, but he actually says it specifically of himself), you can assess what he wrote for yourself, with its context. In this section a sex worker has approached him, and he has declined her offer.
Who is this woman and how desperate might her life be? Did she choose to sell sex on the streets because of addictions, street survival, or another hidden, subliminal impulse? Some form of gambling with sex, men and death -- a need to control and survive? Possibly she feels that this is the best alternative to a life of low-paying work. Possibly she's learned to enjoy it. Possibly she always has. She doesn't look hardened to this life. She has a story, a life of struggle and small, hard-won victories.
I am the prey in this game. A roving consumer. The prostitutes, strippers, and massage parlor women are saleswomen, a squad of Avon Ladies gone berserk. My FTM friend Charley says that it scares him when women come on to him like that. "What should I do, Max? This woman at work is coming on to me!" Or, "Those hookers are so scary!"
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