Josefine Mutzenbacher / oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne von ihr selbst erzählt

A frank first-person memoir traces a woman's sexual awakening, repeated childhood exploitation, and subsequent career in prostitution, describing encounters in brothels, private rooms, trains, and public spaces. She reflects on poverty, social hypocrisy, and how sex became both livelihood and education, claiming agency while rejecting penitence. Interwoven with recollections of family life, formative abuses, and relationships that shaped her views, the narrative balances explicit depiction of erotic episodes with observations on class, gender, and loneliness, concluding with the narrator's later years of wealth, isolation, illness, and the composition of her account.