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Gene Simmons—mega-rock star, businessman, marketing genius and self-proclaimed free spirit—follows up his best-selling books Kiss And Make-Up and Sex, Money, Kiss with Ladies of the Night, an examination of the history of prostitution.

Simmons makes the case that men have been stepping out on women since the beginning of time, and that the practice is not about to stop. For that reason alone, Simmons argues that prostitution should be legalized. He argues that prostitution is a victimless crime that could be made safe and become a large source of tax revenues. Simmons, who has never used a lady of the night, believes no one should have to pay for sex, whether it is through prostitutes or marriage.

Regardless of where you stand on the issue, Simmons’ book is an arresting, informative, humorous and outrageous exploration of the world’s oldest profession, drawing on human nature, history, science and public policy.



REVIEW
Kiss frontman turned reality-TV star, Simmons offers this fascinating collection of anecdotes and opinions on the oldest profession in the world. Beginning with cave-dwelling tribes and moving through each generation and era to the present day, Simmons explains the reasoning behind the profession while never failing to impart his own set of views along the way. No stranger to the microphone, Simmons reads in a solid and unfaltering manner. His familiar, deep bass tone has found the ideal medium in audio narration; his voice can hold listeners' attention for hours. The stories are often shocking and fantastic, which makes them a perfect match for Simmons himself, who sounds as if he is genuinely engaged and thoroughly interested in each tale presented. -- Publishers Weekly


REVIEW
Simmons, the fire-breathing leader of rock icon Kiss—who once bragged that he had bedded more than a thousand women—delivers an entertaining if sometimes simplistic short overview of prostitution. Simmons (Kiss and Make-up) manages to work into his narrative both the Greek philosopher Diogenes and Nevada's Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel. Other than the occasional sex joke, Simmons is serious about giving his subject its historical due, stating upfront, "I am not here to judge women's personal choices or how they choose to empower themselves." The book doesn't cover what Simmons admits is "the dark side of prostitution," focusing primarily on one of his favorite issues: money. Since "throughout history, women have never had access to power," Simmons argues that prostitution has been a way for women to "monetize" the "only thing that women have ever owned." Using numerous famous illustrations (e.g., William Hogarth's 18th-century painting A Harlot's Progress), Simmons and coauthor McCarron support this argument by adroitly exploring a range of topics: Sumerian goddess of sexuality Ishtar; the adulterous "jara and jatini" of ancient India; legal prostitution in Amsterdam's "toleration zones"; and Theodora, wife of Roman emperor Justinian, who Simmons considers "the very first prostitution reformer." All this from the man who once wrote a song on the Kiss album Love Gun titled "Got Love for Sale." -- Publishers Weekly

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AN EXCERPT FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH GENE SIMMONS
BY LLOYD GROVE ON CONDÉ NAST's PORTFOLIO.COM
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L.G.: I want to help you plug your book that's coming out, Ladies of The
Night, which is about the oldest business in the world. It seems to be just
your sort of appreciation of prostitution, right?

G.S.: Well, it's really not. I neither condemn it nor condone it, you know
what I mean? It simply is. I have a fascination with it, and you can take a
few different points of view about it. One, that it's despicable and so on
and you can take a puritanical point of view.

L.G.: Not yours, I would think.

G.S.: Or you could take the point of view that it's women empowering
themselves.

L.G.: That would be your point of view?

G.S.: It is. And that what goes on behind closed doors between consenting
adults is nobody's fucking business is my point of view, and that what
everybody else has to say about it is besides the point.

L.G.: Let me ask you, have you been a satisfied customer?

G.S.: Actually I haven't, but that's only because I'm against the business
model. I think they should be paying me. Here's how I position it, and I
hope you're recording this. This is a pearl of wisdom. Page one, at the dawnof existence, four million years ago, that first human female grunted to a male counterpart, "I'll stay in this nice warm cave, you go out and risk
your hairy behind to bring back that delicious mastodon meat. I'll trade you
some of mine for yours." After that momentous event, nothing would ever be the same. Before language, before culture, before currency, before even religious questions, before anything. The very first time that male either didn't kill, hunt, or in essence use his physical powers to overcome
something, and not share it with somebody, was sex.

L.G.: So this is the spark that ignited the economic engine?

G.S.: All of it, that's precisely the point. Sex ignited, well, obviously
the biological imperative, the urge to merge, but also, sex is the very
first spark that ignited civilization, civility, nonviolent sort of social
harmony. It is sex itself, or from the female, that created the social
structure. Otherwise, every guy would be trying to kill every other guy. So
there's less food and so on, and you don't want to share it with anybody in
the pecking order. Testosterone would rule. It is sex itself that was the
spark that ignited all of it.

ISBN 978-1-59777-501-4
JUNE 2008
$39.95 US/$42.95 CAN
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9” x 12”
182 pages

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