Sex Work And Prostitution
This collection gathers stories where bodies become currency and desire gets tangled up with survival, ambition, or power -- the stripper-professor affair in A Night in Heaven, Belle de Jour's secret double life, Pleasure's grim showbiz math, Bettie Page navigating fame and exploitation. What links these otherwise wildly different films, from period musicals to art-house psychodrama to grimy exploitation, is a recurring fascination with performance and transaction as the price of intimacy, and the toll that price exacts once the illusion cracks.
