The book was translated into English and published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2006. In just over a month it sold over 30,000 copies in its third edition. In 2005, she released a book entitled O Doce Veneno do Escorpião (The Scorpion's Sweet Venom). She appeared in some pornographic films in Brazil.

Her blog attracted more than 50,000 readers per day.

Bruna explained in television programs that she was a normal girl, who had been adopted by a high/middle-class family but that at around the age of 17 she left her home and her family because of the traditional family oriented views of her father and to start to live by her own.īruna appeared in various television programs in Brazil and several periodicals and magazines. Provocative, seductive and unforgettable, The Scorpion's Sweet Venom is the vivid account of a young girl's life on the street, and a fearless expression of human sexuality.īruna Surfistinha (Portuguese for 'Little Surfer Bruna') is the pen name of Raquel Pacheco, a Brazilian former sex worker who attracted the attention of Brazilian media and television by publishing, in a blog, her sexual experiences with clients. Part memoir, part cautionary tale, part sex guide, Bruna brings to life the raw, desperate and dangerous underbelly of the Brazilian sex trade, and shares outrageous advice for the bedroom, like what men really want but are too afraid to ask. 'I have seen and done everything,' she confesses. Bruna writes passionately about her estranged family, her out-of-control drug use, her unbridled sexuality, and her unusual adventures in the world's oldest profession. Here, in The Scorpion's Sweet Venom, she draws back the sheets to reveal the whole story. As a result, Bruna became an immediate celebrity, the Paris Hilton of Brazil. Her candid and explicit entries on life as a high-class call girl caught the attention of millions and set off a vigorous national debate about sexual identity, values, and practices. Known to her clients as 'Bruna the Surfer Girl,' Surfistinha is the beautiful 17-year-old Brazilian run-away from a middle class family who detailed online her three years working as a prostitute in a posh Brazilian suburb. 'If I'm going to be a prostitute, I refuse to be an ordinary one.'

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