Ladies of the Night: An Historical and Personal Perspective of the Oldest Profession Book

I like Gene Simmons as long as he has his make up on and his bass in his hand and up on stage. I accept the fact that the man has an ego. But this is an ego that Donald Trump would have a hard time scaling. Maybe it is an act, I don't know.
The book is beautiful. Padded cover, lovely illustrations. BUT the writing is on par with a 12 year- old. I know Gene had a great education and even taught in his early years, but this writing was bad. At least in his autobiography he told it as it was.
This book started with me being curious about how a man can write about prostitution, then I figured, he (supposedly) had over 4000 women maybe some of them were hookers.

As I read the book, I started to get angry. His observations of being a expert on the workings between men and women were based on the kind of women he was accustomed to. He says that on the whole, all women are prostitutes.
Gene feels that all women barter our bodies for expensive dinners out, movies, dancing, expensive gifts, etc. I will agree that there are some women out there who are very much like this because it is all they have going for them.

Gene belongs to that group of men who feel that if they take a woman out on a dinner date they fully expect sex at the end of the evening. Not all women expect a man to pay their way, especially when all the women get in return is a dinner and 15 seconds of sex.

Gene is (was) a rock star of the higher order in the 70's. I was also a member of the KISS army, mainly because I loved the music and it drove my step-father up the wall.

Being that he is a rocker, certain kinds of women gravitate towards him. The gold diggers, the groupies, roadies, celebrity hunters. If these are the only women he has ever known (God knows Shannon isn't exactly a reasonable person when it comes to spending Gene's money) then he has no right to paint all of us with the same sticky brush.