Huck

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

As an award-winning writer and former top-rated cam girl, Isa Mazzei might not immediately seem like the kind of person who’d ever consider themselves an outsider. She’s open and frank in conversation; a charismatic speaker who can laugh at her most difficult memories. But as she sits down to discuss writing her new memoir – a real-life coming-of-age story, which details her first-hand experience in the sex industry – Isa can pinpoint the exact moment she realised she didn’t belong.

She was 12 years old, an American who’d recently moved from her home in Colorado to Italy, waiting in line for gym class. Having recently got her first period, she recalls how she was wearing a “huge, giant fucking

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