[5] Quan read Xaviera Hollander's book The Happy Hooker when she was ten years old and decided to become a prostitute.
By the age of 19 she was supporting herself as a sex worker, working at an escort agency and a brothel, before becoming an independent call girl with her own client list.
Combining sex with a twice-weekly serial, the semi-autobiographical column centered on Nancy as she juggled her 'straight' boyfriend and family with her clients and girlfriends' problems.
Quan expresses the emotional aspects of her life experiences in her novels, her fiction writing, and keeps her journalism for professional commentary on topics of interest: the plight of sex trade workers, changing sexual mores, topical media frenzies on public personalities such as the Eliot Spitzer scandal.
She has become a frequent guest on Morning Brew, a Radio 3 RTHK weekday breakfast show hosted by Phil Whelan, commenting on current events and social media.