‘Transparent’ star Alexandra Billings recalls wild days as a sex worker

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Transparent,” she made ends meet as a sex worker.The Illinois native writes about her experiences, which were “on and off for almost four years” in the 1980s, in her memoir “This Time For Me” (Topple Books), out April 1.

Before it became “an insidious nightmare,” she writes. “it was actually kind of funny.”The trans actress, 59, writes of one regular who would dress up as a clown and speak in a very high-pitched voice.“If you can imagine a beloved cartoon rodent on pounds of helium begging you to f–k him in the ass, that gives you an idea of my challenges,” Billings writes.

And that wasn’t all. He “also had a horn that he’d beep when he was climaxing.” It was like being with, she writes, “Harpo Marx.”But not all her customers wanted sex.“There was a guy who used to pay me a thousand dollars to clean his house with a toothbrush,” she writes. “All I had to do was curse at him and occasionally call him names.”The man did this while wearing a diaper and a horse head.For all the bizarre hilarity, it could also be incredibly dangerous.

Billings writes of being picked up by a carload of teen boys who brutally raped, beat her and held a blade against her penis, threatening to cut it off.The “Never Have I Ever” and “Goliath” star writes that she didn’t do this line of work because she was forced to but because she wanted to, enjoying the control and power she had over men. “I never enjoyed the sex,” she writes. “Not once.