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Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
By Rachel Moran

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

...a searing indictment of men who buy sex.

— Kathleen Barry

A brave woman steps out from Ireland’s dark side and gives a clear-eyed account of the violence that is prostitution.

–Susan McKay, former Chief Executive of the National Women’s Council of Ireland

Rachel Moran grew up in severe poverty and a painfully troubled family. Taken into state care at fourteen, she became homeless and was in prostitution by the age of fifteen. For the next seven years Rachel lived life as a prostituted woman, isolated, drug-addicted, alienated. At the age of 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.

This is a book of startling originality, courage and honesty. It tells the story of a hidden world, one which is often trivialised and glamorised, with clarity and an eloquence that is unique. Paid For tears away the veil that shrouds prostitution and, from Rachel Moran’s experience, tells us the truth.

Rachel Moran speaks internationally on prostitution and sex-trafficking and volunteers to talk to young girls in residential care about the harms and dangers in prostitution. She lives in North Dublin.

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