The speaker recounts a time when they were broke and applied for a job working the phones, only to realize during the interview that it was actually for a position as a sex worker. Despite being tempted by the high pay offered, the speaker highlights their privilege and the ability to make a choice, emphasizing that their experience with the issue of sex work differs from many others.
The female body has been neglected in anthropological narratives, minimized in the archeological record, and excluded from modern-day clinical trials. But what if that weren’t the case? How would the scientific story of humanity change if we made women the protagonists? Cat Bohannon first asked herself that question a decade ago, and her surprising answers can now be found in a New York Times bestselling book called “Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.”
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