Colleen Dawn was the owner/manager of an escort agency operating in Victoria, Australia, for eighteen years.

She wrote this book based on her notes for a training manual for workers, embellished with stories from her own experiences as both a sex worker and a manager. Although not a novel, this book gives a fascinating insight into the world of paid sex in Australia, especially from the perspective of someone who spent most of their career working in an illegal system.

Bright, funny, and incredibly blunt, Dawn is honest about her opinions on working, the women who do it, the men who pay, and the reality of the work in a society where everyone has an opinion and it's almost always uninformed.