Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me.
Lewis, Sarah Katherine (Author)
May 2008. 26 p. Seal, paperback, $14.95. (9781580052283). 394.1.

Lewis, a former sex worker, has a lusty appetite for both food and sex. In these short essays, she offers raunchy tales from the front lines of the sex industry along with some of her favorite recipes and experiences in adventurous eating. One piece discusses the happy outcome of her personal ad requesting the services of a female dominatrix, while another offers directions for preparing a romantic dinner of mussels and shallots. She also roams further afield, offering a spirited defense of Britney Spears as a woman condemned for indulging her appetites for bad boys and junk food, an interesting take on the tyranny of body image, and a painfully candid but poignant piece on breaking up with her boyfriend. If the pieces don’t always mesh well—it’s a tad disconcerting to segue from the fetish of pee drinking to the drudgery of office work—Lewis certainly makes for thought-provoking reading. She’s very frank—some would label her crude—about all aspects of sexuality, and she displays an open contempt for her former customers, though not for her former coworkers. Provocative reading.

— Joanne Wilkinson
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I don’t know–I find office work to be quite similar to pee-drinking, actually.