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"I Was a Teenage Prostitute. And It Was Kind of Great."

Kerry Howley | 11.11.2005 5:00 PM

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So explains Lisa Carver, author of Drugs Are Nice: A Post Punk Memoir, in this engaging Nerve.com essay.

Earlier this week I interviewed another literary former sex worker, Tracy Quan.

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Kerry Howley is author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State.

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