Trading Flesh-Book One...Not Like Phoenix (Paperback)

In 1961, 17 year old Axel Ackermann is asked to hang a lamp to the ceiling in a neighbor's kitchen. That neighbor, Edith von Lichtener, a thirty year old woman predisposed to absolute male subjugation, submission and obedience, and a madam, trains him to be her Master and, once he is ready, hands him her bank account and her stable of nine prostitutes. Within months, balancing between legality and illicitness, but blissfully unaware of both, Axel begins expanding the business. When the authorities dismantled it in 1969, it was the largest organized supplier of sex services and commercial company in Germany. It had judges, attorneys, high-ranking police officers, bankers and many others that could help on its 'horizontal' payroll, and almost four hundred females under its control. This book, based on Axel Ackermann's notes and on the accounts of a few still surviving workers and players, covers the beginnings in 1961 and 1962; it is direct, hard, open and explicit, and very unapologetic.