The essayist and author Charlotte Shane joined us to talk about her new book 'An Honest Woman,' a memoir of her time as a sex worker.
, when we spoke last month. By now, I’ve followed Shane on social media for years, and what continues to draw me to her writing has always been the way she does, in fact, seem to know how to be a woman. Specifically, Shane seems to be an honest woman, bringing a sense of principled curiosity to the page regardless of her subject matter. Her memoir, out with Simon & Schuster today, is in many ways a love letter to men.
SHANE: The sheer fact of getting older has changed my relationship to it, you know? Sex work helped me realize that conventional femininity and conventional beauty is and can be very much a costume. There’s something reassuring in that, to feel like, “Okay, if I really want to take a stab at appealing to the most amount of people, it’s actually pretty predictable,” like in the makeover scene fromor any rom-comedy movie where the girl takes off her glasses and buys the right dress.
MARTINEZ: Do you think that having these really intense moments of connection or being present with people has made you more aware of that absence now with other relationships? MARTINEZ: Yeah, “…Baby One More Time” came out the same year. It was such a bizarre time for public discourse around young women’s sexuality. I’m also curious to hear you talk about writing about sex, which you do so eloquently. I heard the writer Garth Greenwell talk about this axis with sex writing, the physical and the emotional on a grid, and I’m curious if that resonates.
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