Kindle Edition
by
Rachel Moran
(Author)
When you are 15 years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and
too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left
to sell.
‘THE BEST WORK BY ANYONE ON PROSTUTION EVER.’ Catherine A. MacKinnon
Rachel
Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into state care at
14, she became homeless and got involved in prostitution aged 15, ending
up isolated, drug-addicted, outside of society.
Rachel’s
experience was one of violence, loneliness, and relentless exploitation
and abuse. Her story reveals the emotional cost of selling your body
night after night in order to survive – loss of innocence, loss of
self-worth and loss of connection to mainstream society, which makes it
all the more difficult to escape the world of prostitution.
Paid For
reveals the raw reality behind prevailing myths about sex work: that
working indoors is safer; that some forms of sex work are ‘classier’
than others; that selling sex can be empowering; that a ‘happy hooker’
exists. The biggest lie of all, Rachel says, is that women can choose to
be in prostitution.
At the age of 22 she managed, with
remarkable strength, to liberate herself from the cycle of drug abuse
and prostitution. She went to university, gained a degree and forged a
new life, but she always promised that one day she would complete this
book. Paid For is her story, in her own words and in her own name.
‘Striking, saturated with sad and angry detail and raw, effective analogy.’ The New York Times
‘This
is surely the best, most personal, profound, eye-opening book ever
written about prostitution – irrefutable proof of why it should NEVER be
legalized.’ Jane Fonda
‘Rachel Moran’s Paid For should
be required reading in courses on human rights, in police training and
law schools, and in sex education courses that separate welcome sex from
body invasion.’ Gloria Steinem
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Moran's thoughtful, highly readable, and provocative treatise
shines a necessary light on a dark and underdiscussed topic." ---Kirkus
Starred Review
About the Author
Rachel Moran is the founder of the organization SPACE
International (Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for
Enlightenment). She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's
degree in creative writing and speaks globally on prostitution and
sex-trafficking. She lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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