Roni Loren

I disagree with the messages of the book. (context, the MMC worked as an escort for years but no longer is one when the mc's meet. He now works as a sex surrogate for patients). Anyway the FMC did not respect the MMC's surrogacy job until he was physically assaulted during a session with a patient. Another issues is how the book seems to say sex workers are only doing sw until they find something better and we should encourage them to pursue other careers effectively removing their agency. THEN the FMC decides she is interested in hiring an escort (that is not the MMC) the MMC busts up her first meet up with the escort by basically saying the guy she hired does his job well and will sweet talk her??? LIke yea, he's being paid for good customer service - it is his job. On top of that is the MMC's shitty understanding of consent - which is weird considering he is supposedly used to frequent sex clubs and is in the BDSM lifestyle. For instance, the FMC revokes her consent and the MMC does not accept and end the scene. Instead he coerces the FMC into changing her mind so he can fuck her. "No" or safe-wording is not a negotiation. It means stop, end of scene, do not proceed. These two mc's were bad for each other and I can only imagine how toxic their "hea" would have been. The romance genre is often hostile to sex work and sex workers. This is another example of that.

CW: the MC's work in a facility for rich and/or famous people come to receive mental health treatment in a judgement-free space. Many of these patients have experienced intense trauma in their lives and are attempting to work through that trauma, survival sex work, toxic intimate partner relationship, work relationship, one partner shaming the other partner into leaving a career they enjoy and thrive in, reversal of consent not respected… (meer)