Belle du Jour the original anonymous prostiblogger, is still a better writer than her imitators and has managed to keep her/his/its identity secret since 2003. Thanks to the quality of her writing, and universal appeal of twilight shots of women in lingerie, the book of her blog has now become a TV show “The Secret Diary of a Call Girl” – the first dramatic blog to boobtube transition I’m aware of (correct me if I’m wrong?)

Showing in the UK this week, and on the internet a minute after the titles roll, the show stars Billie Piper who’s famous for marrying a much older man at 17 and becoming a geek lust-object playing Dr. Who’s assistant a couple of years back. She’s a good choice having the odd paedo-cachet of any woman who was famous before she was legal, and Piper’s believably average looking. I doubt the real Belle’s a great beauty.

The producers say the show’s not going to ‘glorify’ the world of sex for cash (which is legal in the UK though it’s hard to be a prostitute legally for reasons of hipocrisy) and will probably manage to avoid nudity, bad language and scenes involving baby wipes and cum.

While you wait for the torrents, New York magazine has a grittier, less shiny, take on the game ‘The $2,000 an-Hour Woman‘ and ITV has posted an online preview along with some fully-clothed supplemental material.

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‘Mesploitation’, material that would be child-porn were it not produced by the children it describes – a fitter, more highly evolved descendant of Paleolithic sex diarists like ‘Girl With a One Track Mind‘, ‘Belle Du Jour‘ and ‘Jet Set Lara‘ who inspired it – is getting hugely popular.

With every semi-literate ‘woman-fucks-world’ blog now in print, and following the success of ‘100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed‘, publishers are now buying up the sexual confessions of writers who claim to have been willing participants in trysts which, if public when they happened, would have placed the men they involve on the sex offenders register.

Aside from wondering how the first of these women who’s ‘outed’ will react to inevitable calls for her partners to be put on trial, the phenomenon calls into question how to modify laws designed to protect children, when faced with material whose legality is entirely dependent on the identity of the writer. Is there a victim here and if not, is the idea that sexual abuse can be implied solely by the ages of the participants still relevant?

If not, should we be limiting accusations of pedophilia to circumstances where the minor party doesn’t consent, and if we do, what does consent mean anyway? Was NAMBLA right all along or do adults have the same responsibility toward publishing their memories as they do their fantasies?

We’ll need some good answers soon.

(For a prime example of mesploitation visit Allegory of an Underage Femme Fatale.)

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