Roxana Shirazi - The Last Living Slut - Born in Iran, Bred Backstage

Thank you to the Buckcherry boys who came up with the alternative title for my book: Are You Fucking Man Enough? The Legend of Roxana.

To my beautiful country Iran… you majestic dusky seductress, you. You are the most beautiful country my eyes have ever seen. I will be buried in you; I know it.

And, finally, to all the men and women who work tirelessly against the suffering and horrific cruelty to animals that goes on in our world. Especially to those who try so hard to stop the medieval torture and skinning alive of over one billion cats and dogs annually, just for their fur so that the masses can buy it and wear it. I still haven’t been able to watch an entire video of those acts. To the people who fight this bloodcurdling cruelty, you truly are my idols.

Roxana Shiraziwas born in Tehran, Iran, and was sent to England at age ten. She holds a masters in English from Bath Spa University, and speaks at International Women’s Conferences on the subject of Gender and Identity. She currently lives, loves, and writes in London.

Some of the names and identifying features of characters in this book have been changed to protect the innocent… and the guilty.

THE LAST LIVING SLUT. Copyright © 2010 by Roxana Shirazi. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

All photos courtesy of the author’s collection except where noted.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shirazi, Roxana.

The last living slut / Roxana Shirazi.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Shirazi, Roxana. 2. Groupies—Biography. I. Title.

ISBN 978-0-06-193135-2

EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199249-0

ML429.S49A3 2010

781.66092—dc22

2010005842

10 11 12 13 14 /RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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As much as I would love to write about how gender is socially constructed—and how the concepts of masculine and feminine are merely performances that have been produced as truths and taught to us from birth—I have a story to begin.

Please note that the term sex always means consensual sex. Any sexual act that is not consensual is not sex; it is an act of violence.