[08/20/24] Kaylor, Stephanie: Ask a Sex Worker!

CLASH Books, paperback

Publication Date: August 20, 2024

Publisher Marketing: Ask a Sex Worker is a poetry collection that spits in the face of assumptions to explore the borders between victimhood & empowerment.

Stephanie Kaylor turns an unflinching eye toward a society that demands penance or performance. Speaking from personal experience, this poignant and gritty collection is honest and bold. Kaylor takes a shattered mirror to reflect the stigmas and fantasies of sex work back at the reader.

Ask a Sex Worker moves beyond the superficial and is brutally honest about the emotional toll of the underappreciated 9 to 5. Dealing with invasive topics, Kaylor provides elegant and cutting poems touching on the mistreatment and miseducation of sex work.

Redrawing the lines of the personal while still being deeply vulnerable, Kaylor's debut poetry collection transcends the boundaries of sexuality and stigmas to create an honest dialogue from otherwise probing questions. Kaylor writes a journey that is as voyeuristic as it is challenging.