Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution - Softcover

Rachel Moran

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9780717156023: Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717156028 ISBN 13: 9780717156023

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2013

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When you are fifteen years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell. Rachel Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into State care at fourteen, she became homeless and got involved in prostitution aged fifteen. For the next seven years Rachel worked as a prostitute, isolated, drug-addicted, outside of society. Rachel s experience was one of violence, loneliness, and relentless exploitation and abuse. Her story reveals the emotional cost of selling your body night after night in order to survive loss of innocence, loss of self-worth and a loss of connection from mainstream society that makes it all the more difficult to escape the prostitution world. At the age of 22 she managed, with remarkable strength, to liberate herself from that life. She went to university, gained a degree and forged a new life, but she always promised that one day she would complete this book. This is Rachel Moran s story, written in her own words and in her own name.

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Review:

A brave woman steps out from Ireland s dark side and gives a clear-eyed account of the violence that is prostitution. --Susan McKay

An unprecedented testimony brave, powerful and convincing. --Theo Dorgan

'you're an inspiration from girl to girl' --Sinead Desmond Ireland AM 22 April 2013

'It is a story which will shock, maybe even horrify- on a subject which society does its best to avoid' --Jason O Toole Daily Irish Mail 12 April 2013

'It's not often that a book makes you re-think your beliefs, but Rachel Moran's thought-provoking memoir, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, does just that' --Jennifer May, Ireland's Big Issue 12 June 2013

'It is a story which will shock, maybe even horrify- on a subject which society does its best to avoid' --Jason O Toole Daily Irish Mail 12 April 2013

I am struck by this powerful and deeply moving book - --Donal Dorr, Act To Prevent Trafficking

'It is a story which will shock, maybe even horrify- on a subject which society does its best to avoid' --Jason O Toole Daily Irish Mail 12 April 2013

About the Author:

Rachel Moran grew up in North Dublin city. From a troubled family background, she was fourteen when she was taken into state care. She became homeless and got involved in prostitution at aged fifteen, working in Dublin and other Irish cities for the following seven years. In 1998 at the age of 22, she liberated herself from that life. At 24 she got on the path to further education, gaining a degree in journalism from Dublin City University, where she won the Hybrid Award for excellence in journalism. She speaks internationally on prostitution and sex-trafficking and volunteers to talk to young girls in residential care about the harms and dangers of prostitution. She lives in North Dublin.

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