Work It Out: What It’s Really Like to Be a Sex Worker in Australia
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Bella Green is a stand-up comedian, author and sex worker based out of Melbourne. Her stand-up hour,
Bella Green is Charging for It, was nominated for Best Comedy at the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival and took home the title of Best Comedy at the 2020 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Bella Green is a sex worker who started working in the industry for the glamour and taboo.
Instead, she found her place in a surprisingly mundane and often entertaining world where the hierarchy is strict, the names are fake and spare towels always come in handy.
In her new memoir, Happy Endings, Bella - who grew up in Perth and now lives in Melbourne - describes her journey through brothels, peep shows and dominatrix dungeons.
The successful stand-up comedian also details the hardships in her life - from growing up in a broken family, to getting kicked out of home at 16, battling crippling depression and manic highs, her love and lust with both female and male partners, and finally finding where she was exactly meant to be – on stage, telling jokes.
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