PublishedSpinifex Press, December 2012 |
ISBN9781742198620 |
FormatSoftcover, 296 pages |
Dimensions23.5cm × 15.6cm × 1.5cm |
Rachel Moran comes from a difficult family background. By the age of 15 she was living and working on the streets. For the next seven years she was a prostituted woman, both on the streets of Dublin and in the brothels around the city, and occasionally in other Irish locations.
At 22, she liberated herself from a life in prostitution and started on the path to further education and ultimately a degree in Media Studies and Sociology from Dublin City University. Paid For is Rachel Moran's own story in her own words - and in her own name. It pulls no punches. In addition to the narrative elements, it contains searing social analysis which explodes many of the myths about prostitution. The author believes there are no 'happy hookers'. To experience prostitution is to endure a cycle of misery, danger, violence and numbness.
