Should You Pay for 'Paying for It'?

Pay for sex and you’ve got a secret for life. Unless you're Chester Brown, the alt-cartoonist who helped launch the autobio comics genre more than 20 years ago. He’s produced a manifesto/memoir, and Brown and his bald head and skinny bedroom shoulders are in the middle of the action. Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John (Drawn & Quarterly, 2011) is his first-hand account of transitioning from girlfriends to paid sex as he entered middle age. To say the book’s odd would be an understatement, to say it’s interesting would be a stretch. But it is worthwhile, and if you see it in a bookstore you should sit down and take a look.