Whip Smart Friday, August 5, 2011
Turns out Melissa Febos got her start as a dominatrix by answering an ad in the Village Voice. (Who hasn't?) That's when she discovered the liberal-arts major's secret to financial independence: sex work. Not prostitution, not stripping, not porn. Just wielding a whip and peeing on your clients. How did a privileged girl from New England get herself deliberately involved in the dungeons of New York? Melissa explains it all in Whip Smart, her uncensored memoir of the whys and wherefores of her employment as a professional domme. While much of the story concerns her brutal fight with drug addiction, her personal confessions are equally frank. "I torture people for money and I can't stop." Melissa (a.k.a. Justine) discusses and signs her book at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., W. Hlywd.; Fri., Aug. 5, 7 p.m.; free, book is $24.99. (310) 659-3110. (Originally published in L.A. Weekly, August 5, 2011.)
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