The Call Girl

{{Short description|1958 book by Harold Greenwald}}

{{about|the 1958 book|other uses|call girl (disambiguation)}}{{Infobox book

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| author = Harold Greenwald

| pub_date = 1958

| publisher = Ballantine Books

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The Call Girl is a best seller of 1958 written by the doctor Harold Greenwald, a psychotherapist whose doctoral dissertation is about the psychology of prostitutes. In 1960, he made a Hollywood movie on the same topic, Girl of the Night.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/02/us/harold-greenwald-88-expert-on-psychology-of-prostitutes.html | title=Harold Greenwald, 88, Expert On Psychology of Prostitutes | work=The New York Times | date=2 April 1999 | accessdate=16 February 2014 | author=Ravo, Nick}}

In 1970, a new edition of the book was published, titled The Elegant Prostitute.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZArPH0nFGo0C&pg=PA429 | title=Studies in Human Sexuality: A Selected Guide | publisher=Libraries Unlimited | author=Frayser, Suzanne G. | year=1995 | pages=429 | isbn=1563081318}}