On the (hooker) heels of Wednesday's post, in which I asserted whores are the new black, blogger Clay Hornik sent a link to the first episode of "The Secret Diary of a Call Girl," a UK TV show based on the blog-turned-book Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl. The star of the series is Billie Piper, who's better known as Rose Tyler from "Doctor Who." I watched the show and liked it. It's smart, and funny, and a little risqué. You know you're in a different kind of territory when the main character says "fuck" in the first few minutes, gives a to-camera look straight out of "The Office" while masturbating with a purple vibrator, and concludes the show by riding a guy who likes like Austin Powers in a saddle. Sometimes, the show ventures into "Red Shoe Diaries"-land, but, for the most part, it focuses on what it's like to be a modern woman for whom the line between being a whore in bed and a dominatrix at work is becoming ever blurrier. I'm curious to hear what College Callgirl, America's Belle, thinks of it.
