SOLD Sex, marriage and the Church

 

SOLD

Excellent conditions. PB. 160pp. $15 including postage anywhere in Australia.

Romance and more in the age of swipe

 

Mint condition. PB. 306pp. $20 including postage anywhere in Australia.

Sex, dates and relationships are just a swipe away. Millions of encounters are happening all over the globe every minute because of the smartphone.

Goodbye computers, adieu boozy watering holes – with smartphone app dating, the ‘bar’ is open 24/7, with no cover charge required.

If your thumbs can do the chat dance, you will flourish in The Age of Swipe. In Swipe - The Game has Changed, author Michael Jarosky documents a year of his swipe encounters.

Raw and 100% real, this explosive account covers everything from his rock star week of sexual adventures to awkward dating disasters and heartbreak.

From chat notification hello to handshake goodbye, become a fly on his wall and learn the game again with new rules and strategies.

From Sydney to New York and London to Tokyo, the game has changed. Seduction techniques in bars and exchange of endless emails via traditional internet dating are now ancient strategies.

Swipe not only delivers Jarosky’s unforgettable journey through the world of swipe dating, but also relays the ‘MISBAC Strategy’ so both men and women are equipped with up-to-date techniques to make new friends, indulge in sexual adventures, experience quality dates, and find lasting relationships in The Age of Swipe.

Life as a brothel receptionist ...

 

Excellent condition. PB. 367pp. $20 including postage anywhere in Australia.

This behind-the-scenes look at life in a brothel is a wonderfully funny tale, told with a lively sense of the absurd and a rare and forgiving understanding of human frailty.

'I have several young busty blondes, Derek,' Ruth sang like the weathergirl. 'One is a very sexy Danish girl, just back from a skiing trip, five-foot-five, long wavy blonde hair, blue eyes, twenty-five years old. A fantastic figure: thirty-six, twenty-five, thirty-five. Or I have a more demure, very pretty, young strawberry blonde Australian, Derek. She's nineteen . . .'

When her acting career stalls, Merridy Eastman lands a challenging role: night receptionist at a Sydney brothel. A long way from the bright lights of a TV studio, she is swept into the high drama of the sex industry.

This former Play School presenter learns words for items and acts she never imagined, she opens the door to first-timers, old hands, couples and the occasional celebrity.

But the place she spends every moment she can is the kitchen table, having a cup of tea and discussing investment portfolios, and life's many great mysteries, with Sapphire, Shelby, Antoinette and Bree - the women who make a living from having sex with strangers. And then, in this most unlikely of places, she finds herself falling in love . . .

There's a Bear in There (and he wants Swedish) is a funny, fascinating and near-as-dammit true account of a forbidden world, told with a lively sense of the absurd and a rare and forgiving understanding of human frailty.

About Merridy Eastman

A NIDA graduate, Merridy Eastman has performed in a swag of productions for the Melbourne and Sydney Theatre Companies and spent several summers leaping about botanical gardens across Australia, bringing Shakespeare to the masses.

She has had major roles in most current soap operas, playing everything from a cradle-snatching golf fanatic on Neighbours to an unstable funeral director on Blue Heelers who was so unhappy with a bad haircut, she stabbed the hairdresser with his scissors. She also played the neurotic Eileen Unn on Channel Seven's Always Greener.

But despite this varied and illustrious career, Merridy has come to accept that for generations of kiddies she will always be Merridy-from-Play School thanks to a five-year stint on the show in the 1980s.