“If I m going to be a prostitute, I refuse to be an ordinary one."Known to her clients as “Bruna the Surfer Girl,” Surfistinha is the beautiful 17-year-old Brazilian run-away from a middle class family who detailed online her three years working as a prostitute in a posh Brazilian suburb. Her candid and explicit entries on life as a high-class call girl caught the attention of millions and set off a vigorous national debate about sexual identity, values, and practices. As a result, Bruna became an immediate celebrity, the Paris Hilton of Brazil. Here, in The Scorpion’s Sweet Venom, she draws back the sheets to reveal the whole story. Bruna writes passionately about her estranged family, her out-of-control drug use, her unbridled sexuality, and her unusual adventures in the world’s oldest profession. “I have seen and done everything,” she confesses. “There is nothing left that scares me.” Part memoir, part cautionary tale, part sex guide, Bruna brings to life the raw, desperate and dangerous underbelly of the Brazilian sex trade, and shares outrageous advice for the bedroom, like what men really want but are too afraid to ask. Provocative, seductive and unforgettable, The Scorpion’s Sweet Venom is the vivid account of a young girl’s life on the street, and a fearless expression of human sexuality.
Bruna Surfistinha(布魯娜)
Raquel Pacheco(瑞可兒)的筆名,在即將離開妓女這個行業時,把三年來在網路部落格上發表接客的經歷集結成書,一夕成名,登上各主流傳媒,如今這本書的版權已售出十逾國,布魯娜的事蹟更被紐約時報大幅報導,她可以說是21世紀全球最知名的妓女。
妓女這個行業遍行在世界各個角落,但為何記載了布魯娜接客細節的部落格可以在網路上造成轟動,每天至少五萬人次點閱?而她的故事更成為國際知名媒體爭相報導的焦點?或許,由布魯娜說出的這番話最能回應她這部作品吸引讀者的理由:
「我不會愚蠢到跟隨某些評論家所說的,認為這本書最吸引讀者的地方,在於它揭露了一位妓女的祕密生活,因為這個『世界上最古老的行業』根本沒有祕密可言。只能說,我把虛偽放在一旁,讓讀者去面對此書所呈現的真正祕密。」
而布魯娜所謂的「祕密」,其實也就是指:在賣淫...





