The XX Factor: What women really think.

All Writers Are Whores

Or so said Harold Robbins. And I agree. Twelve years in the freelance game—sometimes making a lot of money, sometimes making very little money—oh, what I wouldn't do for a sugar daddy. Freelancing is a tough, lonely business. The idea of a man lining my pockets with enough cash to not have to worry about the rest and focus on the writing sounds like a small slice of writerly heaven to me.

Walter Benjamin: "For you ask all too timidly: 'Either all women are prostitutes or no women are?' No: 'Either all people are prostitutes or no one is.' Well, choose your own answer. But I say: We all are. Or should be."

I'd venture if the stigma was lesser, there'd be more male writers out there riding the sugar-mommy train. Too bad feminist rhetoric doesn't pay my bills.