Dominatrix - How Dare You Impute Your Worthless Self on Me?

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In the early to mid 90s, a lot of Irish women wouldn't deal with these blokes because they didn't know how to deal with them. And I never found those oddities in that way because you came as close to being in control of the situation as you were going to come - so that all suited me down to the ground. But there are guys that get off on that. The rare, the rare, and you know, this is the thing is that what I actually found convenient and coming back to the conversation we were having earlier on about time and place and culture: A man got off on pretendant that you were in control, you know? It was just a

Shermer and Moran discuss: her dysfunctional family background • her boyfriend who pimped her • the women who sell sex and the men who buy it • why other prostitutes have attacked her • agency and volition in prostitution: women and men • why “prostituted” as something done to women (instead of choosing it)? • what she thought about when having prostituted sex • drugs, depression, and suicide as responses to prostitution • the myths of prostitution • feminism and prostitution • how she got out of prostitution • the harm in consenting adult women selling their bodies for sex • what should be done about prostitution, if anything?

Rachel Moran is the Director of International Policy and Advocacy for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE, a leading non-partisan organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health harms of pornography). Her work has been endorsed by Jane Fonda, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan and many others. Her bestselling memoir, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, is regarded by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon as “the best work by anyone on prostitution ever” and has been published in more than a dozen countries and numerous languages including German, Italian, Korean, French, and Spanish.