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What Sort of Woman: an erotic memoir is a gripping exploration of desire, trauma, and recovery. It traces a woman’s life lived at the thrilling edges of convention—where power and intimacy reshape survival. Here, readers are initiated into worlds rarely spoken of.
About the Book
What Sort of Woman
an erotic memoir
About the Author
Élise Lamoureaux
Élise Lamoureaux is a Los Angeles-based memoirist and poet. She holds a BA in French & Linguistics and MFAs in Creative Writing and Poetry. She is a former Sugar Baby and submissive, and has worked as a date-for-hire and exotic dancer. She is a mother and a longtime California high school language teacher.
Her work explores female desire, power, trauma, recovery, motherhood, and the complicated relationship between pleasure and healing. What Sort of Woman is her first book.
Élise is available for interviews, readings, and conversations at whatsortofwoman@gmail.com or through this site. Possible discussion topics include:
- Writing explicitly about female desire and recovery without rejecting pleasure;
- Balancing radical honesty on the page with the need to protect the people she writes about;
- Resisting conventional narratives about abuse, motherhood, sexuality, and healing.
Behind the magnetic honesty of What Sort of Woman is Élise Lamoureaux, a Los Angeles-based memoirist and poet, gaining attention as one of today’s most compelling voices in steamy romance and erotic nonfiction.
Élise holds a BA in French and Linguistics and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a former Sugar Baby and Submissive, and has worked as a date-for-hire and lingerie lap dancer. She is also a mother and longtime public-school educator who spent nearly thirty years teaching languages in California schools.
Élise is a voice that dares to speak the truths many women silence: sexuality, addiction, abuse, and the long, painful climb towards healing. Her words become a lifeline, pulling readers into the unfiltered journey of a woman reclaiming her body, her desires, and ultimately her life.
If you go to my Master’s office, you might also disappear. First, you will hear next nothing—then the dancing of the breeze in the eucalyptus trees. The carpet will swallow your footsteps. Percolating coffee scents and the spice of a man’s cologne. He’s seen before he’s heard. You will say hello, and he will say follow me. You will find him handsome. He will regard you over his shoulder and warn, the first time: You walk in here like you own the place. Then you will remember. Take the length of the hallway on your knees…
If you go to my Master’s office, you might also disappear. First, you will hear next
nothing—then the dancing of the breeze in the eucalyptus trees. The carpet will swallow
your footsteps. Percolating coffee scents and the spice of a man’s cologne. He’s seen
before he’s heard. You will say hello, and he will say follow me. You will find him
handsome. He will regard you over his shoulder and warn, the first time: You walk in
here like you own the place. Then you will remember. Take the length of the hallway on
your knees…
About the Book
What Sort of Woman
an erotic memoir
If you go to my Master’s office, you might also disappear. First, you will hear next nothing-then the dancing of the breeze in the eucalyptus trees. The carpet will swallow your footsteps. Percolating coffee scents and the spice of a man’s cologne. He’s seen before he’s heard. You will say hello, and he will say follow me. You will find him handsome. He will regard you over his shoulder and warn, the first time: You walk in here like you own the place. Then you will remember. Take the length of the hallway on your knees…
Experience the Book
Dive into a Sugar Baby memoir soaked in desire, control, vulnerability, and self-revelation. Here’s a sneak peek inside this sensual romance novel:
“Like anyone, I had a public face, a private face, and a secret face. I thought I was allowed. But someone had decided my life was their business. I made a cold calculation: I would lose everything if I lost Seth—the stability, the money, the life I’d built on our arrangement. What sort of woman moves her kids in with a john?”
Available on Amazon and everywhere books are sold. Soon available on audio.
Like anyone, I had a public face, a private face, and a secret face. I thought I was allowed. But someone had decided my life was their business. I made a cold calculation: I would lose everything if I lost Seth the stability, the money, the life I’d built on our arrangement. What sort of woman moves her kids in with a john?
Find this BDSM memoir for adults on Amazon and wherever else books are sold. Soon available on audio.
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