Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution

"The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran's Paid For fuses the memoirist's lived poignancy with the philosopher's 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 University

Born 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 one's body. At twenty-two, Moran escaped the sex trade. She has since become a writer and an abolitionist activist.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/08/2015
ISBN: 9780393351972
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2015
Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 115
Booklist 09/01/2015 pg. 19
New York Times Book Review 09/13/2015 pg. 12
New Yorker (The) 10/19/2015 pg. 88
Kirkus Best Nonfiction 12/01/2015 pg. 32