Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

ISBN: 0393351971

Author: Moran, Rachel

Condition: Used

An astonishingly brave memoir of prostitution and its lingering influence on a womans psyche and life.The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Morans Paid For fuses the memoirists lived poignancy with the philosophers conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of prostitution in moving, insightful prose that engages and disposes of every argument ever raised in its favor. -Catharine A. MacKinnon, law professor, University of Michigan and Harvard UniversityBorn into a troubled family, Rachel Moran left home at the age of fourteen. Being homeless, she was driven into prostitution to survive. With intelligence and empathy, she describes the exploitation she and others endured on the streets and in the brothels. Moran also speaks to the psychological damage inherent to prostitution and the inevitable estrangement from ones body. At twenty-two, Moran escaped the sex trade. She has since become a writer and an abolitionist activist.