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Belle de Jour’s Guide to Men
- Author: Belle de Jour
- Category: Non-fiction Parenting / Relationships Humour
- Publisher: Orion (UK)
- Pub date: 8 October 2009
- Length: 196 pages
About Belle de Jour’s Guide to Men
An extraordinary number of call-girl memoirs have surfaced recently… Belle differs from these sexcapades in the most fundamental way, however, in that she can actually write… she is brilliant – frank, witty and observant… Whoever you are, Belle, you can give up the day job and keep writing
– OBSERVER
Her writing [is] full of refreshing comedy and eye-watering advice...Belle’s candid humour is compulsive
– INDEPENDENT
I avidly read her descriptions of her sexual comings -and-goings… But it is the peripheral details that make this account so readable
– MAIL ON SUNDAY
Dear Reader,
You might be wondering what, exactly, a prostitute might have to say to you about men and relationships… Let’s put it this way: I have met men. Loads of men. Men of every conceivable shape, size and type. In my work as a call girl, I have seen them at their most cocksure and at their most vulnerable. And if this experience has taught me anything at all, it is that this odd and inscrutable species we call Man is often libellously misrepresented in the female press.
The common-or-garden Man is truly a fascinating creature. Whether observed in groups in the wild or singly in captivity, their actions can provide no end of amusement and delight to the educated and discerning female observer.
So grab your binoculars and join me, if you will, for a walking tour of Man – his habitat, tastes and habits…
Love, Belle
Drawing on interviews from lovers and friends, Belle probes what really makes a man tick – from the first flushes of romance to the long haul relationship. Sex, emotions, and those strange puddles he leaves in the bathroom… no mystery goes unexplored.
About the Author
Belle de Jour and her Internet diary came to widespread popular attention in the UK when she won the Guardian’s Best-Written Blog Award in December 2003 (she was shortlisted for the American equivalent in 2004). Her witty and frank observations of working in the sex trade and also of the common concerns of many young women living in the metropolis – dating, shopping, parents, partners, career – struck a chord with readers who flocked to the website. Even before the frantic media interest in the anonymous author’s identity, the site was registering around 20,000 hits every day. With the publication of THE INTIMATE ADVENTURES OF A LONDON CALL GIRL, her anecdotal memoirs of sex clients and family lunches, of bondage and home decorating, of perverts and boyfriends became a fully fledged book, and Belle de Jour the Bridget Jones for the post-’Sex and the City’ generation.