The Education of a Very Young Madam by Ma-Ling Lee

Here's a book that must have seen as an almost surefire bestseller. It's the story of an Asian girl in America who, while still a high school age teenager, discovers how she can profit by promoting prostitution by her friends. A sixteen year old Asian mama-san. Teenaged runaway hookers. Good old-fashioned entreprenial spirit or simply an editor's idea for a quickie softcore porn "expose." Did the alleged ghostwriter Christa Bourg simply write with a real Ma-Ling Lee told her, or make the whole thing up. I don't know. Maybe it doesn't matter. Ma-Ling Lee doesn't look like a Korean name (aren't they all required to either begin or end with "Kim?"), but maybe the publishers gave her a Chinese appearing name to protect her identity, since she claims to be still running an escort service. Or maybe the only name she remembers is from her American family, so it doesn't even look Asian. She was born in Korea. She doesn't remember much of her early childhood, except being hungry and being beaten by an old woman she figures must have been her grandmother. Then she wound up in an orphanage, and was eventually adopted by an American family when she was six years old. Her American parents divorced several years later. They'd hoped adopting her would heal their marital problems, but it didn't. She began running away from her American mother when she was thirteen. I have to admire how she set up her business so that hardly anybody knew what she looked like, let alone knew her identity. She claims most of her hookers knew her only as a voice on the telephone. When she needed to be present, she used associates to go for her. This is somewhat plausible, but seems to require a lot of trust that's unlikely to continue for any length of time. Even high class escorts require management. It's hard to believe they felt any loyalty to someone they know only as a voice on the telephone. I suspect some of them must find ways to rip her off and possibly damage her operations in other ways -- especially through using drugs. And how can she trust these associates? The Happy Hooker was a successful book partly because it was a different break from the past - the sexually explicit (though not pornographic) and true account of a long time, high class hooker who, contrary to the moralists, claimed to enjoy the work. Like Ma-Ling Lee, Sydney Biddle Barrows claimed not to service customers herself, and her claim to fame after being busted was her status as a descendant from The Mayflower. So The Mayflower Madam was a successful book. She too claimed to run a high class escort service as a traditional business with great customer service. However, she certainly ran her business personally. If you are titillated at the thought of a beautiful sixteen year old Korean girl arranging a "date" for you, this book is for you.
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