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The Cartoonist, the Director, and the Sex Workers
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Article | The Nation
Society / The Cartoonist, the Director, and the Sex Workers Sook-Yin Lee’s new romantic comedy, Paying for It, explores Platonic love and prostitution.
That’s certainly the case with two Canadian artists, musician and filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee and cartoonist Chester Brown.
Brown’s memoir is an account of how his split with Lee led him to abandon the idea of romantic love and become a habitual purchaser of sex.
Brown purchased sex for the first time in 1999 and, since then, has been a proud john.
Chester Brown remains Chester Brown (played by Dan Beirne, whose moon-faced shyness calls to mind the young Paul Dano), but Lee is reimagined as Sonny Lee (played by Emily Le as an exuberant, mercurial media personality).