num_pages: 320
description: An astonishingly brave memoir of life in 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 to mentally unstable parents Rachel Moran left home at the age of fourteen. Being homeless she became prostituted to survive. With intelligence and empathy she describes the fears she and others had working on the streets and in the brothels. Moran also speaks to the psychological damage that accompanies prostitution and the estrangement from ones body. At the age of twenty-two Moran escaped prostitution. She has since become a writer and an abolitionist activist.
language: English
title: Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company