Paid For, Rachel Moran
Paid For, Rachel Moran
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Paid For
My Journey Through Prostitution

Author: Rachel Moran

Narrator: Heather Wilds

Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/16/2015


Synopsis

Born to mentally unstable parents, Rachel Moran left home at the age of fourteen. Being homeless, she became a prostitute to survive. In Paid For, she describes, with intelligence and empathy, the fears that she and others had working on the streets and in the brothels. She also speaks to the psychological damage that accompanies prostitution and the estrangement from one's body.

At the age of twenty-two, Moran escaped prostitution. She has since become a writer and an activist.

About Rachel Moran

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Leila on January 04, 2014

This book has affected me and my outlook more than anything else I have ever read. Brilliantly written. Heart-wrenching in its honesty. I would recommend this as a "must read" for anyone and everyone. If you are a woman or if you care about a woman, prostitution DOES affect you. Read the book, learn......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on September 19, 2015

So far: Very intensely sex-negative. The author has had a legitimately traumatic and horrific experience as a youth but is applying her experiences to abolishing sex work claiming no women are happy or choose the profession. Having heard sex workers first hand on podcasts contradict her I have to ro......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielė on June 28, 2024

Prostitution is a paid rape. You can’t buy consent, but you can buy silence. When lies about the “empowering choice” of “sex work” continue to spread on social media, such a book brings us reality. The reality that is often distorted by the traumatised “workers” attempting to cope and by the perverte......more

Goodreads review by Jane on March 23, 2017

Another one bites the dust. Another book abandoned halfway in. This is a really good example of how you can take a really interesting story and ruin it with really bad storytelling. Also I don't want to pretend prostitution is a bed of roses or anything but she really generalizes her (obviously terr......more

Goodreads review by David on September 15, 2013

I was expecting more of a memoir though her journey. This book is more of a factual statement about what defines the mind of not just her, but those around her. There is a strong feminist under-tone that spends a great deal of the book speaking of the demoralization of women and the despicable natur......more