Depending on your outlook on life this very funny book deserves an X or an E (Educational) rating – and the fact it’s a memoir makes it even more extraordinary. Grant Stoddard loved America but America wasn’t loving him until he won an online contest to have sex with a sex columnist. This lead him on to becoming a sexual ‘crash test dummy’ and writing a column called ‘I did it for science’. Cringing, hilarious and poignant, a real eye-opener.
Grant Stoddard left Britain for the States with the clothes on his back, a fascination with all things American, and a burning hope for something bigger. But with no steady job, no money, and no girlfriend, the starry-eyed young Englishman's excitement was shrinking fast.
Then fate in the guise of an X-rated online contest intervened. Winning first prize - sexual intercourse with an infamous married sex columnist - changed everything. The sensitive lad, whose record with the ladies was spotty at best, had a new lease on life. With a shot of much needed confidence, Stoddard emerged as the mascot of Nerve.com, a gonzo sex columnist who would begrudgingly try any and every lurid thing his crafty co-workers devised. From offering himself up as man-bait at a notoriously hard-core gay bar to attending an elite orgy with a blue-blooded date, to being a hapless participant in a sexual home-invasion, Stoddard has been where few men dare and lived to tell the tale.
With a self-deprecating style and wonderful appreciation of the absurd, Working Stiff is a unique coming-of-age story from a very funny and irreverent new writer.
At twenty-one, perennial virgin Grant Stoddard came to the United States in pursuit of true love. After eighteen months of couch-surfing and heartbreak, he stumbled into a job as New York's most intrepid sex columnist, despite having little experience in either sex or writing. He lives in New York City.
