Paid For: My Journey Through Drugs and Prostitution

The bottom line is this: it is impossible to make prostitution a means to an end because the changes that take place as a result of it alter the end in itself.

Prostitution, to me, is like slavery with a mask on, just as it is like rape with a mask on, and we were no more recompensed for the abuse of our bodies by our punters’ cash than slaves were recompensed by the food and lodgings provided by their slave masters.

American proponents of slavery attempted to vindicate it by maintaining that it afforded them the opportunity to ‘. . . maintain the most democratic and refined relations among themselves’

The prostitution experience of the trafficked woman most commonly involves force followed by the trauma of commercial sexual abuse. The prostitution experience of the non-trafficked woman most commonly involves coercion followed by the trauma of commercial sexual abuse.

Trying to frame prostitution as legitimate and normal work opposes logic on innumerable levels, one of the most obvious (and almost laughable) being that European Union health and safety legislation prohibits sexual harassment, violence, and work that causes work-related stress!

The reason for women’s refusal to collude in legalised prostitution is simple: the fact is that we women simply do not want to be labelled prostitutes.

We are often reminded by prostitution enthusiasts that there are men and transgendered people in prostitution. Yes, there are, but who’s buying them? The demand for prostitution has a gender, and that gender is male.

The sad thing is the social stain that is left upon you, but the important thing is to remember that it really only exists in the perceptions of people; and so if you can manage to read the perceptions of others as of litt

The sense of ‘otherness’ for the woman ensnared in this lifestyle is so strong that she begins to regard herself as so utterly different from other members of society, that it does not feel possible or feasible on any level to partake in that society.

Men who use prostitutes superimpose upon prostitution an image of it which to them is satisfactory,