Nasty Girl

Nasty Girl

Ma-Ling Lee with Christa Bourg.

What really goes on behind the closed doors of the brothels and bordellos that cater to the growing sex trade?

From the outrageous things prostitutes are asked to do for their clients to how the internet, mobile phones and other technology has revolutionized and regulated the sex industry to ensure quality, safety and efficiency, Nasty Girl is a provocative expose of the newest developments in the world's oldest profession.

Ma-Ling Lee has had more experiences than your average 30-something woman. A stripper at age 15 and involved with major league gang members before she was 20, she was a madam earning over $20,000 a day just a few years later.

Korean-born and adopted by an American family, Ma-Ling began her career in the sex business at the age of 13. Taken in by strippers, pimps and prostitutes, she soon became an expert at negotiating the hard-and-fast ways of life on the streets and learnt basic life skills: cooking, paying bills and staying off the grid.

She soon discovered she had a knack for marketing and management a business and opened her first brothel at 17. When the police finally shut it down, she bought her first internet mailing list, set up an off-shore server and reached a huge, middle-class clientele. She now uses the latest technology to makes unbelievable sums of money in a business that demands discretion, quick thinking and intuition.

In her own frank and candid voice, Mai-Ling describes the difficulties and the economic advantages of running and illegal business. From clients' outrageous and often hilarious fetishes to the hardships of living off the grid to the heartbreak of watching friends destroyed by drug addiction, Ma-Ling refuses to shy away from the truth of what the prostitution business has become.

Nasty Girl
Simon and Schuster Australia
Author: Ma-Ling Lee
ISBN: 9781847396303
Price: $24.99