The Las Vegas Madam: The Escorts, The Clients, The Truth - Softcover

Jami Rodman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996568204 ISBN 13: 9780996568203

Publisher: Maktub Press and Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Sin City EXPOSED! The Las Vegas Madam will make 50 Shades of Grey Blush Crimson

The Las Vegas Madam: The Escorts, the Clients, the Truth takes you inside the life of a call girl as she spirals into a world of glamour and secrets and expose.

When a scandalous news story splashed across mainstream media about an elite escort agency in Las Vegas, people were shocked to learn there was a tiny mastermind behind the company a small town girl from Oregon named Jami Rodman who went by the pseudonym Haley Heston.

Meet the secret society of high-end escorts and the men who hire them.
Discover the highly lucrative business of sex as Rodman reveals the hidden websites and layers of complex networking to satisfy man's endless desire for sex.
Timed with the 2007 collapse, Vegas cultivated a new, unprecedented class of call girls... ones with brains, beauty and savvy. Together with her agency, they cleaned up the soiled reputation of prostitution in Las Vegas.

Weathering competition from desperate, violent, and successful pimps and madams, hosting swanky parties, and serving clients in cities that spanned the globe, her agency ruled the oldest profession for several years until one of her star escorts, Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton, canceled on a jealous and disgruntled client ... he wrote an email at 2AM to the online Smoking Gun. Haley Heston, the Las Vegas Madam, was outed.

The Las Vegas Madam is a provocative memoir of one girl's journey into prostitution and how quickly a fast-paced life built a wedge between her and the very thing she was seeking to begin with love, friendship and meaning. She replaces loneliness with companionship, both as a hired prostitute and recreationally.

In a desperate attempt to bond with others, to be liked, fit in, to escape an oppressive religion, and push the crushing void of emptiness aside, she tries to fill it with sex, drugs, relationships, money and power. As Jami, aka Haley Heston, rose from a popular call girl into a powerful madam, Rodman discovered most people she met in the sex industry were there for similar reasons: loneliness, isolation from the world around them, and an attempt to fill needs that weren't met elsewhere. She realized she was traveling down a similar path as her clients, and decides to make changes - to make a difference for them.

Inside was a new stronger self who made friends with the old. There were opportunities to find meaning, and provide the same to those around her. It was when she brought those two people together that she learns to love again, have compassion for her clients and herself, and understand what brought her there to begin with. The Las Vegas Madam is glittery, fast-paced and damn sexy. Mixing a quintessential cocktail of erotic pleasure, money and hot women, meet the secret society of high-end escorts and the men who hire them for companionship. You will never think of the city of Las Vegas, escorts and call girls as you have before you read this book. Yes, 50 Shades of Grey would turn 50 Shades of Crimson.

About this title

About the Author:

Jami Rodman was a Madam by night and a writer by day with an unabashed approach to sexuality and relationships. She has a background in cultural anthropology and sociology, but her stories really come alive when she recounts her last decade of adventures, first as an elite escort and then as the high-powered Las Vegas Madam. Rodman offers a unique, essentially sociological, perspective that does not often find its way into the spotlight. She has emerged, after a decade of cultural immersion, to share her experience, education, and insight on a trending social movement.

Review:

The Las Vegas Madam is a captivating exploration of an elusive industry Rodman understands moral complexity; she neither glorifies nor vilifies her past trade in the Las Vegas sex industry. Sparing no detail, memoirist Jami Rodman, aka Haley Heston, opens the doors on the epicenter of the Sin City sex industry in her book, The Las Vegas Madam. She shares explicit tales that have the flavor of great erotica, but also weaves in remarkable, telling portraits of people on both sides of an age-old transaction. Rodman grew up in a conservative family in small-town Oregon. The first chapters of her book examine the alienation she experienced as a teenager. After a failed marriage and some secondary education, she broadened her horizons to Las Vegas. The city s sex, drugs, and money lured Rodman in. She began waiting tables, working at strip clubs, and soon enough was propositioned by her first client. The rest of the book chronicles the author s rise to becoming an elite escort, and eventually madam of her own escort company, before getting out of the industry altogether. Rodman s writing shows excellent skill. Rather bookish as a child, she studied cultural anthropology in college before moving to Vegas, and her natural talent and education show in the way she perceives and analyzes the characters and customs of the sex industry, particularly how wealth and privilege fuel dissatisfaction. It was ironic, Rodman writes of a dominatrix session she and a friend a feminist with a bachelor s degree hosted for a powerful businessman. This was a man who was feared in his professional life, yet he was paying two anonymous girls to verbally and physically insult him. Rodman also understands moral complexity. For the most part, she neither glorifies nor vilifies her past trade. She explores the freedom and empowerment that high-end escorts enjoy. At the same time, she doesn t shy away from the darker side of the sex industry: The largest group of women in the sex industry 60 percent is trafficked. Her most moving passages involve her attempts to save working girls from pimps and drug addiction: Underneath it all, they were my friends more than anything else. The book s episodic nature occasionally undermines its own narrative arc. For instance, after reflective chapters on her personal relationships and finding meaning in a double life, Rodman includes a few more salacious episodes about sugar daddies and open relationships, the latter particularly redundant in light of her earlier chapter on threesomes. On the whole, however, The Las Vegas Madam is a captivating exploration of an elusive industry. It s not a book for readers squeamish about sex or about women who choose to sell it for a living. Fans of erotica will appreciate Rodman s evocative descriptions of sex, while fans of memoir and general nonfiction will appreciate her keen sociological insights. --forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-las-vegas-madam/

**5 Sexy & Seedy, Stars** First, let me start by saying, I hate nonfiction. Most of the time, I find it boring and cannot keep my attention for more than a few seconds before I start rolling my eyes and ultimately putting it down. I can't say that about this book. While yes, it took me a little longer to read because I just didn't have the time or concentration to sit and get it done...I was completely enthralled by this book. I was sucked in from the beginning, and yes, it has some slow parts, but overall I was beyond fascinated by Jami's (aka Haley's) story. With a very conservative upbringing and her choices to delve into the seediest parts of the underworld, I wanted nothing more than to read more of what she was telling. This memoir is everything I hoped it would be. It's more than just a recant of Jami's/Haley's life as a prostitute and madam, but about the dealings of escorts in Sin City. A Vegas nightlife that looks glamorous; but in all actuality is just as rough as any other high-profile lifestyle. There are trade offs to expensive clothes, trips around the world, and VIP service. There are expectations that go above and beyond companionship...and in this book, we get a front-row seat to all of it. It's fascinating, and completely riveting. The recounts of early years, how and why she made the decisions she made, the ultimate sacrifices and thoughts regarding her successes and failures...this raw and unconventional recollection of Haley Heston and her life is one I will recommend to anyone interested in a fresh approach to nonfiction. This is more than just a boring tale about how a small-town woman's life evolved...this is deeper than just one person's experience. This is a lifestyle, a world that interacts with everyday people, yet lives and breathes in an underground dimension all its own. Welcome to the other side of Vegas, prostitution, and paying for the time of a beautiful woman. --whirlwindbooksandreviews.com/2016/01/blogger-review-las-vegas-madam.html

About this edition

• Publisher: Maktub Press and Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0996568204
• ISBN 13: 9780996568203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 375