Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal

This volume includes lengthy dialogues from 1979-1981 with Real conducted by journalist and author Jean-Luc Henning, in which she eloquently discusses the theoretical implications of sex-positive whoring and relates her experiences both inside and outside the profession: from her lengthy love affair with the "Berber" to such "psychological" and "special" clients as the "moldy rhinoceros." The "Little Black Book" that rounds out this book is drawn from the logs in which Real kept track of her many clients, from "Pedro, hilarious fat Spaniard, devoted, simple, honest, fat peasant face, 70F" to "Pierre 8 (from Basel), blue eyes, fifties, slightly balding, cultivated, sweet-violent...licks my finger after I remove it from his anus...100-400F." It is a journal that not only chronicles Real's working life, but offers a clinically direct, investigative sociological analysis of the sexual subcultures of her time.

Jean-Luc Henning is a Professor at the University of Cairo and a writer for Liberation, Paris.