An Evening with Xaviera Hollander: the Happy Hooker

Just when the squelching heat began to dissipate under the influence of a glancing thunderstorm, Xaviera Hollander tongue tied an overflow audience made hot again as the Happy Hooker revealed a timeless message.

The documentary, XAVIERA HOLLANDER "THE HAPPY HOOKER": PORTRAIT OF A SEXUAL REVOLUTIONARY, describes her life story. She began life during World War II imprisoned in a concentration camp run by vicious, anti-Semitic Japanese militia in Java, Indonesia wherein her unique conditioning history generated a powerful sexual appetite. The movie then spanned her early adolescence, bisexuality, rise to fame, and evolution to monogamy with new husband Philip de Haan. Through it all, the Happy Hooker continued her embrace of life while challenging, with grace and wit, the love-stifling sexual repressiveness of most cultures.

At the showing of her world premier sellout, this feminine feminist and icon of the 70's era sexual revolution dismissed, as unworthy of lost pleasure, the symbolic castration of men by women who more narrowly define their gender's politics. To a question about Jill Nagle's book, Whores and Other Feminists, Xaviera praised the poly-fidelity and poly-amorous movements that have begun to infiltrate the culture and called for a man’s liberation movement. She explained that while women's liberation has greatly advanced the plight of women, men can be divorced, impoverished, and denied access to their children due to wives making their marriage untenable. "This is a time for men's liberation.”

Noting how differently people answer her probing questions about sexuality when they’re with a partner, she explained that the most frequent male fantasies were GOOD blow jobs and a ménage à trois with two women. Lamenting the homophobic effects of our culture’s training, she then praised women’s superior capacity for vivid fantasy and challenged a young woman with boyfriend to reveal her secret fantasies. The woman developed a sudden case of lockjaw.

In a subsequent interview, producer John Patti revealed his hopes that, through this movie, the younger generation will get a clue about what the sexual revolution was all about and why it will remain critically relevant throughout their lives. The extent to which the movie succeeds at this will vary with the size of its distribution which shows early signs of being quite large. John reported that Showtime Network is strongly considering purchasing the film rights and the film was accepted by both the prestigious Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles (July 25th - 31st) and the inaugural West Hollywood (CA) International Film Festival (July 29th - August 1st).

At the freeRadlab, the festival’s managing director Steve Greenbaum and Xaviera posed for a picture. A bystander recalled a recent picture in which Xaviera had cupped porn legend Annie Sprinkle's bosom. A lusciously perky technical support person piped up: “I have tits!” but this was not enough to get a photo op with the famous Madame. Later, Steve and his pregnant wife Lauren posed with Xaviera for a photo. Lauren explained that the reason she couldn’t answer Xaviera’s question of whether she wanted her daughter to be a hooker like her when she grows up was because she didn’t know the sex of her unborn child.

XAVIERA HOLLANDER to ATTEND the PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

XAVIERA HOLLANDER to ATTEND the PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL for the SCREENING of the DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT HER LIFE

June 21st, 2008, Philadelphia, PA: The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival taking place on June 26th - 29th, 2008, announces the attendance of Xaviera Hollander to promote the documentary film about her life “Xaviera Hollander, The Happy Hooker: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary” directed by Robert Dunlap, screening Friday, June 27th 9:25pm at the Media Bureau, 725 N. 4th Street http://PhiladelphiaIndependentFilmfestival.com

The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival will be screening 151 films in 7 venues over 4 days through out the historically radical artist community, Northern Liberties. All events are within walking distance of one another with the film screenings taking place at The Media Bureau, North Bowl, Liberty Lands Park, Arbol Café, Liberties Walk, 941 Theatre & Woodshop Film Studios. With the US Metropolitan city of Philadelphia as its backdrop, the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival is a yearly meeting of the artist and business community that encompass the innovation, creativity, diversity, and uniqueness of film making.

Xaviera Hollander will be in attendance at The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival from Thursday June 26th until Sunday, June 29th. , appearing at the Media Bureau on Thursday, June 26th at 9:30pm for the Film Festival’s opening event and on Friday, June 27th at 9:25pm for the documentary screening. After the film, Xaviera will be answering questions from the audience as well as sign and dedicate her latest book, written with co-author Katje van Dijk, “The Happy Hooker's guide to SEX - 69 orgasmic ways to pleasure a woman” published by Sky Horse Publishing. Xaviera will be making two more book signing appearances at the Passional Boutique on Thursday, June 26th at 7pm, and Delicious Boutique on Friday, June 27th at 7pm. Xaviera did not invent sex: she was one of the leading spirits who brought it out of the closet. Her first book, The Happy Hooker, published in 1971, has sold more than 16 million copies and is still intriguing new readers by its humor, its zest for life and above all for its downright honesty. Xaviera now lives in Amsterdam with her husband Philip, where she runs a bohemian style Bed and Breakfast and entertains her many international guests with her humorous sexy stories from the past. She is always reinventing herself and for the last 10 years has been producing English Theatre productions in her house and recently in Marbella, Spain where she also resides part of the year. Details about her life can be found on her website: http://www.xavierahollander.com

For more information on the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival or Xaviera Hollanders Appearances, please visit http://PhiladelphiaIndependentFilmfestival.com or call 215 592 -1059.