“The Happy Hooker” is looking for clients on Broadway! A musical adaptation of Xaviera Hollander‘s best-selling 1971 memoir is in the works, according to Yvonne Dunleavy, one of Hollander’s co-authors ...

What becomes an erotic legend most? Longevity. Sex symbols have notoriously short shelf-lives, and the few that endure loom large in our pop-culture consciousness: Liz, Marilyn, Madonna. In an age of ...

Dr. Kristyan Kouri will present a lecture titled “The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander” about famed sex columnist Xaviera Hollander on Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. in Sierra Hall Room 451. Hollander, who was ...

Xaviera Hollander, 'The Happy Hooker': Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary is a documentary about one of the world's most important sexual icons. Interviews with Larry King and commentary from ...

Xaviera Hollander has been writing a Penthouse column for 30 years. She chronicled her life as a ""high-class New York madam"" in 1972's The Happy Hooker: My Own Story, which now returns to print.

The Happy Hooker, a between-the-sheets memoir by brothel owner and call girl Xaviera Hollander, was an overnight success when it was published in 1971. We discovered that the 72-year-old is still ...

As Xaviera Hollander spoke to an admiring crowd of fans, friends and former lovers at New York’s Museum of Sex recently, it was clear she hadn’t lost her ardor for spinning titillating tales of sexual ...

When I read about prostitution being “degrading,” I think back to a time when many women went through a process known as an “illegal operation.” For many women that too was degrading. In most cases ...

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Robert Dunlap’s documentary Xaviera Hollander, “The Happy Hooker” – Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary screens Thursday at the Portage Theater. Born in Indonesia in 1943, Hollander spent her early ...

Larry Mantle talks with Xaviera Hollander about the 30th anniversary re-release of The Happy Hooker (Regan Books) and about her new book, Child No More (Regan Books), that recounts her life from her ...