The Turn on or the King or Something Else

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There's few men who walk through the doors of a brattle who are so naive as to believe that the woman would have sex with the band. So I mean, they will just tell themselves all sorts of lies if lies are necessary and they very often aren't. You know, from my point of view, I had one regular punter. He was in to dressing up in women's clothes. He'd no interest in intercourse. He loved snort and cocaine. But she doesn't know about it this day unless he watched these interviews. And so, you know, I try to keep a sense of perspective,. I would never, ever have wanted anything bad to happen to him.

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.