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Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir about Being a John

par Chester Brown

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"Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work--from the timid john who rides his bike to meet his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of cliches street corners, drugs, or primps"--From publisher's web site.… (plus d'informations)
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I read this round our friends' place in Brussels. Honestly, I think enough has been written about it already, so I'll try to keep this brief.

Overall, I don't think that overall this comic works - it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be: confessional, polemic, manifesto, or even just story. In the end it settles for my least favourite sort of comics autobio - lacking in introspection, structure, awareness. Even humour. It's main virtue is that it is, I suppose, honest. Unfortunately, that leads to the obsessive documenting of (all?) the prostitutes he has met, which is obsessive, as well as a little unsettling. The space devoted to them is all the more infuriating as he fails to engage with the more interesting questions about his life choices (particularly toward the end of book).

To be honest, there are many grounds on which to challenge this book, but in the end, any comic that has, as this does, tens of pages of (prose) appendices, probably doesn't manage to achieve what it set out to. And that is strongly indicative of why I don't think this is a good comic.
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  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
Definitely an uncommon topic. The rendition is real and it seems the author's coldness is real, too. Doesn't say anything positive about human relationships. PS: there are too many appendices. ( )
  d.v. | May 16, 2023 |
This is an unusual book-a memoir of being a buyer of services from sex workers. We follow Chester from he enters the world of explicit selling and buying of sex and in his interactions with (anonymized) sex workers. Throughout, Chester is arguing with his friends about the value of romantic love and the rightness of the way he has chosen and his distancing himself from romantic love. Crucially, he also give the sex workers a voice. Their voice is of course filtered through the author, but it is frequently a voice that is not heard at all. After all his complaining and misgivings about monogamous love, Chester paradoxically ends up in a steady, monogamous relationship with one sex worker. ( )
  ohernaes | Jan 14, 2023 |
Hearing Chester Brown read a good chunk of his newest graphic novel at a book launch, helped keep his distinct voice and cadence in my head while I read it. There's no denying the importance of this book politically in regards to sex workers and I think it does a really good job of normalizing 'the john' - especially through the internal monologues of Brown's exploration of different relationship paradigms and his paranoia in visiting sex workers. The book is charming and poignant but falls into the trap of a lot of memoirs - it doesn't necessarily follow a story structure - because real life doesn't do that - so in parts it starts to feel a bit repetitive or 'samey'. Other than that, Paying For It is still a fascinating read and an ambitious project on Brown's part. ( )
  scout101 | Sep 15, 2020 |
Il sottotitolo di questo albo, a metà tra graphic novel ed autobiografia, è “memorie a fumetti di un cliente di prostitute”. E la storia è esattamente questa, una rivisitazione, molto intimistica del rapporto dell’autore con il magico mondo della prostitute. Il tratto con toni sempre molto bassi, mai un sorriso, è perfettamente in linea con l’approccio di Chester Brown con le prostitute; nessuna grande festa, sostanze aggiunte, orge, doppie penetrazioni; un sesso ordinario, pacato, l’unica deviazione le partners, tutte prostitute. Siamo lontani anni luci dalle passioni dello straordinario “memorie delle mie puttane tristi” di Marquez. Le prostitute sono professioniste, compagne di un orgasmo, interlocutrici di un paio di ore. Ed anche il sesso, il con il suo valore morale negativo, rimane in sottofondo rispetto ai temi che emergono, con chiarezza, dal lavoro di Chester. L’autore non è riuscito a vivere la sua storia d’amore con la ragazza amata, infatuata di un altro e gli evidenti limiti caratteriali, o hanno portato ad enormi difficoltà nell’approccio all’altro sesso. Il rimedio alla solitudine ed alle pulsioni sessuali sono le prostitute, trovate con gli annunci sui giornali e su Internet, viva le recensioni. Le numerose esperienze che Chester vive con donne di tutti i tipi sono altalenanti; talvolta entusiasmanti, talvolta deludenti. Ma il punto di maggior interesse è la reazione degli amici di Chester rispetto alla sua risaputa consuetudine di frequentare le prostitute; ed emergono tutti gli infiniti pregiudizi degli uomini e delle donne nei confronti delle prostitute e dei loro clienti, un mondo socialmente destinato a rimanere al margine della normalità. Alcune frasi sono esemplari, da film di Allen, da un dialogo con una prostituita “l’amore è condividere, prendersi cura e dare. L’amore romantico è possedere, accaparrarsi, e gelosia; quello che distingue gli amori romantici dagli altri tipi di amore è la sua natura esclusiva”. Un lavoro sicuramente intelligente, volutamente tenuto sotto traccia ( )
  grandeghi | Aug 5, 2020 |
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"Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work--from the timid john who rides his bike to meet his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of cliches street corners, drugs, or primps"--From publisher's web site.

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