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Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution

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Description for Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution Paperback. A beautifully written combination of memoir and a 'dissection' of prostitution - heart-breaking, courageous and redemptive. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.

‘When you are fifteen years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell.’

Rachel Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into State care at fourteen, she became homeless and got involved in prostitution aged fifteen. For the next seven years Rachel worked as a prostitute, isolated, drug-addicted, outside of society.

Rachel’s experience was one of violence, loneliness, and relentless exploitation and abuse. Her story reveals the emotional cost of selling your body night after night in order to survive—loss ... Read more

At the age of 22 she managed, with remarkable strength, to liberate herself from that life. She went to university, gained a degree and forged a new life, but she always promised that one day she would complete this book. This is Rachel Moran’s story, written in her own words and in her own name.

 

 

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Product Details

Publisher
Gill & Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717160327
SKU
V9780717160327
Shipping Time
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About Rachel Moran
Rachel Moran grew up in North Dublin city. From a troubled family background, she was fourteen when she was taken into state care. She became homeless and got involved in prostitution at aged fifteen, working in Dublin and other Irish cities for the following seven years. In 1998 at the age of 22, she liberated herself ... Read more

Reviews for Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution
I am struck by this powerful and deeply moving book.
Donal Dorr
Act To Prevent Trafficking
It's not often that a book makes you re-think your beliefs, but Rachel Moran's thought-provoking memoir, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, does just that.
Jennifer May
Ireland's Big Issue
No amount of sugar-coating can sweeten this story ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution


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