Bruna Surfistinha: Brazilian hooker's memoir flying off bookstore shelves

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After doing it all kinds of ways with several hundred different guys and more than a few women, a 21-year-old just-retired Brazilian prostitute has written a best-selling book about her three years on the job and plans now to settle down to a "normal" family life of husband and kids.

Her scandalized middle-class family hasn't quite come around to forgetting about the lurid recent past of "Bruna Surfistinha." But her avid readers - four out of five of them reportedly women seeking tips on technique - are clamoring for more.
"The Scorpion's Sweet Poison" is now the rage in Brazilian bookstores and has made its author the country's latest celebrity.

Surfistinha is the pseudonym of Raquel Pacheco, a generously curved brunette who worked for almost three years as a Sao Paulo call girl. The book's first printing of 10,000 copies sold out in just two weeks and it has risen to third place on the weekly Vega's list of non-fiction book sales.

In the 172 pages of the volume published by Panda Books, the author says that she had every possible sexual experience during her call girl years, and she recounts in detail some of her rendezvous with men, women and couples, as well as describing an orgy during which she "entertained" eight guys.

"Today, I can say that there's no fantasy that scares me because I've already done and seen everything. Some of them were pretty strange, I admit," writes Bruna, who left home before turning 18 with the aim of making money quickly.

That was how she got into prostitution, a trade she pursued in a comfortable Sao Paulo neighborhood until Oct. 26, when she decided to abandon the world's oldest profession and devote herself to her boyfriend, a divorced 30-year-old businessman who was one of her clients.

"When I got the idea that the easiest option I had to support myself when I left my parents' home would be to offer sexual services, I thought: if I'm going to be a prostitute, I don't want to be just a run-of-the-mill one," writes Bruna on the blog she created on the Internet to stay in contact with her readers and which each day receives 15,000 hits.

Bruna says that in the three years she was a prostitute, she had sex more than 1,000 times, adding that although "in theory that might not seem like a lot," in practice it's another matter. "Wild sex, orgies, many different men and women by day, almost endless nights. What can be exciting for many girls ... at 20 years old, for me is just routine," she says.



With the help of a journalist, Bruna prepared her book recounting many of her experiences, but throughout the work she maintains the anonymity of her clients. She also gives advice to women about how to act during sex so that their man does not become a client of prostitutes.

Those recommendations could be the reason why 80 percent of the people who buy the book are females between the ages of 13 and 35, according to an informal bookstore survey conducted by her editor. Because of the book's success, and the confidence with which Bruna speaks of her experiences, she has become a frequent guest on television programs, and a Brazilian men's magazine that publishes a yearly list of the world's 100 sexiest women had included her this time around.

"I got a lot from being a 'party chick.' I don't mean just money; I also made friends," she writes on her blog, where she also says that despite the occasional bad moments she experienced, overall "it was a good phase that I'll keep with affection in my memory."

With the success of her first book, Bruna now plans to write two more, study sexology, start a consulting business and lead a normal life, but she recognizes that she will have to deal with much prejudice and that it won't be easy to reconcile with her relatives, who are shocked by her adventures.

"There are ex-prostitutes, yes. But we're also women, and therefore we dream about a normal life. A life surrounded by children and a husband," she says on her blog.

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