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Raquel Pacheco, aka Bruna the Surfer Girl

http://www.dazereader.com/24000917.htm The sex worker memoirs genre is hot the world over. A Brazilian call girl named Raquel Pacheco, alias Bruna Surfistinha (Bruna the Surfer Girl), has quit the biz and become a best-selling author.

Her book, “The Sweet Venom of the Scorpion: The Diary of a Call Girl,” is a vivid account of the three years that the 21-year-old Pacheco spent selling her body for money. Written in the slang of a middle-class teen-ager from Sao Paulo, it is part diary, part blog and even offers how-to tips for readers looking to spice up their sex lives.

In truth, Pacheco was already flirting with fame before her book. Lonely and eager to vent, she started writing about her experiences with customers in a blog that became so popular it was profiled in several Brazilian magazines. These days the site (http://www.brunasurfistinha.com/blogs/) rarely focuses on sexual escapades, but it still gets about 20,000 hits a day. It was the blog that drew publishers to Pacheco, who had boasted on the site that she was writing a book.

Bruna the Surfer Girl is a great call girl name. Scorpion venom doesn't sound all that sexy; a local idiom, I suppose. (This Reuters article was reprinted by several news sites. I linked to the Pakistani paper because they ran a large photo. Here's another nice photo of Raquel/Bruna. Yahoo used a library photo of a different Brazilian prostitute.)

 

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