"The Price": Natalie McLennan's Girlfriend Experience

What is most compelling about "The Price," Natalie McLennan's document of her life as "Natalia," the face of New York's high-end escort scene in the thrilling middle years of this decade, is not the ins and outs, tics and foibles of the celebrities and other high rollers who would plunk down $2k an hour for her company: it is the absence of feminist, post-feminist, and post-"Girl Power" rhetoric in her book, which reads like the "Behind the Music" ("but for prostitutes") the author admits it is. And in that way it is a snapshot, not a mugshot, and a straightforward description of the cost of doing business. More »