Is There a Hollywood Version of Prostitution in the Dating Market?

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I think that's one of the values of your memoirs to bring that to attention. Most of us have a kind of a Hollywood version of prostitution from stuff we've seen in movies or whatever. But that was one of the peculiar things from your book that shocked me. Why would women be so hostile about what you're doing? If anything, you're out of the dating market. So there's less competition for them in thedating market. I'm not sure how to interpret that. Did you have to sue her for libel or something like that? I had to eventually take a defamation case and I won in the Dublin Circuit Court in late 2019. And it had been going on for

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.