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17/06/2008Re-introducing Xaviera Hollander

Happily married and monogamous now, Xaviera Hollander, aka The Happy Hooker, may have retired from one of ‘the world’s oldest businesses’, but she’s still pulling in the public. Natasha Gunn finds out some more about this 'bekende Nederlander' (well-known Dutch person).

Xaviera poses on the streetI thought I’d try to find out something about Xaviera’s background without asking the inevitable questions about sex. But avoiding the subject of sex with someone who has helped millions improve their performance in the bedroom is difficult.  Xaviera Hollander is the author of bestselling book ‘The Happy Hooker’ the frank and explicit tale of her life as a ‘Madam’ in New York City in the swinging sixties. Also, for 35 years, she penned the Penthouse magazine column 'Call Me Madam'.  

Eighteen books later, Xaviera has just published sex-help book ‘The Happy Hooker's guide to sex - 69 orgasmic ways to pleasure a woman’.  This book, which shows guys what women want in bed, goes nicely with her book ‘Xaviera - On the best part of a man’, which Xaviera describes as “the ultimate ‘penis-book’, a great guide for women and gay men to learn what to do with a man's family jewels.”

Expatriated
Top secretary turned hooker, Xaviera gained notoriety in America as the powerful ‘Madam’ of a brothel in Manhattan.  Despite being thought of as a ‘Dutch export’ Xaviera has an international background.  She was born Xaviera de Vries in Java to a French-German mother and Dutch-Jewish father. During the Japanese occupation, she and her mother were confined in a prison camp in Indonesia while her father, a doctor, was imprisoned in another camp.

Something about the girl
Xaviera with her motherIn her book ‘Child no more’ Xaviera tells how she was fascinated by her father’s intelligence - he was an accomplished writer, a skill which Xaviera seems to have inherited, as well as psychiatrist.

1 reaction to this article

Katje van Dijk posted: 17-12-2008 | 3:31 PM

Xaviera's new book, the Happy Hooker's Guide to Sex: 69 Orgasmic Ways to Pleasure Your Woman, was written with her new co-author (moi) and should be listed with both authors names when noted. www.69sextips.com

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