Xerex Xaviera
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Xerex Xaviera is an adult column in Abante tabloid that first started as a sex advice column in July, 1988[1][2][3] which was a creation of 5 young men.[4] From a sex advice column, it has evolved into a literary column about sexual exploits and experiences of letter-senders[5] and a platform for its readers' sexual fantasies.[6]
Abante tabloid runs a column written by an anonymous Xerex Xaviera in 1988 for sex advices to letter senders. It has eventually evolved about sex exploits and experiences by supposed letter senders.[7] The column was said to be the Filipino counterpart of the book by Xaviera Hollander Happy Hooker.[8] The newspaper tabloid gains popularity as many adults are more buying the newspaper because of the stories from the Xerex Xaviera column.[9][10]
In 2004, the tabloid stopped publishing the column when it shifted into an all family newspaper.[citation needed]
Name origin
The name Xerex Xaviera was coined by five young men. One of them was fond of reading Playboy magazine and Penthouse magazine and Xaviera Hollander was a writer that they admired. As they wanted to create a Filipino version of Xaviera Hollander. While thinking on how they would create a Filipino name for Xaviera Hollander, one of them proposed to just do a Xerox copy of Hollander's name. From the word Xerox they created the name Xerex, and thus the name Xerex Xaviera was created.[4]