Our culture, at every level, is reckoning with sex: its relationship to power, gender and violence, its value and its cost. No one navigates these intersections more directly than sex workers. And no one is better equipped to explore them than porn performer and legal scholar Lorelei Lee.

In this propulsive memoir, Lee takes us behind the scenes of the twenty-first-century porn industry, from their time on sweaty film sets in LA to the negotiations of power and pay that underpin the trade. Along the way, they challenge dangerous myths about sex work and reveal a rich history that will reshape how we think about agency, labour and desire. Ultimately, they ask: what is the cost of the choices we all make about our bodies and our work under capitalism?

Our culture, at every level, is reckoning with sex: its relationship to power, gender and violence, its value and its cost. No one navigates these intersections more directly than sex workers. And no one is better equipped to explore them than porn performer and legal scholar Lorelei Lee.

In this propulsive memoir, Lee takes us behind the scenes of the twenty-first-century porn industry, from their time on sweaty film sets in LA to the negotiations of power and pay that underpin the trade. Along the way, they challenge dangerous myths about sex work and reveal a rich history that will reshape how we think about agency, labour and desire. Ultimately, they ask: what is the cost of the choices we all make about our bodies and our work under capitalism?