Everything You Know About 'Sex Work' is Wrong | Mickey Z.

[Tace]

Rachel Moran. Photo credit: VIP Magazine

My Conversation with Rachel Moran (Part 1)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Sept. 6, 2015

“When you are 15 years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell.” Faced with this stark and all-too-common reality, Rachel Moran was prostituted for seven years in Ireland until she managed to extricate herself at the age of 22.

Since then, Moran has not only earned a BA in Journalism from Dublin City University and an MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin, she’s also become a outspoken advocate of the Nordic Model and an equally outspoken critic of the post-modern perspective on “sex workers.” Since early 2011, she’s courageously addressed audiences at numerous international locations, including United Nations Plaza, the European Parliament and Harvard University.

Rachel’s uncompromising and riveting memoir Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution is being released in the U.S. on September 8, 2015. Paid For not only earned endorsements from Catharine MacKinnon, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and Jimmy Carter, it also puts the lie to vapid post-modern liberal “theories” about “sexual liberation.”

In light of her book release and the recent decision by Amnesty International to protect the “rights” of pimps and johns, it felt like the ideal time to talk with Rachel. To follow, is Part 1 of our conversation…

more

http://worldnewstrust.com/everything-you-know-about-sex-work-is-wrong-mickey-z

[Squinch]

1. First to kick. Great article.

Waiting to see which DUer will be the first to toss the "sex negative" or "prudery" bullshit into the conversation.

[fasttense]

2. Every few years a really brave woman comes out and tells the truth about the horrors

Of prostitution and sex work. Then for the next 2 years we get to hear how very wrong this very brave woman is.

The money in sex work must go to some pretty powerful men because their voices always seem to drown out the women.