Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution Kindle Edition

As a male who has personally struggled against the idea of whether prostitution is moral or not, this book has served its purpose of clarifying my ethical standings. After reading this book, it has become crystal clear to me that prostitution is an evil force that must be done away with at once. I am not a puritan, nor a religious fanatic, just a man with plain common sense that read a book from someone who has been there and is articulating her story. Now, before I go into the insights I have gained from this book, I would like to thank Rachel Moran for aiding in my personal development and contributing to human society with her wonderful work in this book.

The book is not perfect by any means, but it is a wonderfully written and enjoyable piece. I read it in 4 days. Despite the mental and physical hardship she's endured, Rachel has managed to write a book that is very insightful and much better written than many books & articles I have read from Columbia or Stanford graduates.

Now without further ado, let me list the key insights I have obtained from this book. They are not the only insights one can gain, but those are the ones that spoke to me the most.

1) Prostitution promotes secrecy. A very bad psychological habit for both parties engaging in the act.
2) Homelessness is often the introductory road to prostitution. Homeless is a particularly harsh condition, one can understand why women resort to selling themselves as a means of escaping homelessness. Prostitution is therefore mainly a substitution for complete poverty.
3) Prostitution is paid rape, or paid to be sexually used. This stroke a deep chord with me by the way, because I never saw it that way.
4) The transaction occurring during the act of prostitution is not occurring between two equal parties. In essence, the male with monetary, educational, and social access is exploiting the female who lacks these resources to fulfill his sexual gratifications.
5) Prostitutions hate their clients. They pretend to like them so that the act can be more tolerable for the Johns (another word for clients)
6) Males who engage in buying prostitutes are psychologically training themselves to be sexually abusive to women whether they know it or not
7) A society that legalizes prostitution obscures moral boundaries within the collective, I found this remark to be very important.
8) Current legislation against prostitution are not to ban prostitution but mainly to move it indoors, away from public view.
9) Prostitution massacres the body, soul, and mind of the women who do it. The "Happy Hooker" story is a myth.
10) Men need a lot of education on the subject if this problem is to ever done with completely.

The book is simply spectacular. It is well written, describes graphical details, is packed with real emotions, and provides a glimpse of hope for the future. I hope to meet and fund Rachel Moran one day. She has an organization called SPACE (Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment).. I'll definite write her a check if God gives me the chance.

Conclusion: Book is amazing, buy it now and support this brave woman!

This is the best book on Prostitution that I have ever read. However,This book not only meets that standard, It is by far the Best book I have ever read. This should be required reading in a multitude of classes on Social Policy as well as topics in Therapy such as Therapuetic Process designed to heal from various abuses. First Ms. Moran describes her inner life as a child and then traces her inner life all the way through her life and through the book and in doing so opens up answers to all the questions anyone would have ever had about what prostitutes deal with and REALLY go though in the work they do night and day. Spoken with candor, transparency, depth of feeling and awareness, and sensitivity, Ms. Moran cannot help but look around to find multitudes of supporters and allies in anyone who reads this book.. As a social worker, this book has given me new life in areas of interest I have already had. As a woman this book has offered many areas of self reflection about past relationships and levels of behavioral dysfunction that women learn to tolerate and how in our psyche this is done. This book is not written with any "bias" or with any hidden agenda but answers a need in myriad areas of cross disciplinary discussion, knowledge and policymaking. OUTSTANDING and EXCELLENT. I recommend this to everyone I know.

This is a book that every father should buy for his son on his 21st birthday. Ms. Moran’s treatment of this highly misunderstood flaw in men’s psychies, that has existed for literally hundreds of years, is nothing short of riveting. If you are looking for a book that reveals highly sexual content then go somewhere else as Ms Moran only, and rarely, shares these details to make her point that prostitution is an evil, vile imposition on women, no matter how it is served up. A very brave work by a women who hundreds of men should have loved, not violated. Yes, prostitution is a choice, but so is jumping off of a bridge ...a choice only made by people who have been through so much emotional and psychological abuse that it actually appears to be a solution.

Rachel provides so much expertise and insight into the world of prostitution even for someone who has been an advocate for years. I can’t even imagine how difficult it was for her to recount everything she did in this hard-hitting memoir. Every chapter was so meaningful in conveying the truth about prostitution. It guts one to the core but in a powerful change-your-mind, change-your-perception, change-your-heart sort of way. If there is one survivor book out there that I could recommend to people, it would be Moran’s. No avenue of prostitution is omitted for dissection and this memoir combats the myths and offers knowledge and a glimpse into the trauma and experiences behind each one, whether call-girl, street-walker, porn star, massage parlor girl, escort in hotels, bdsm, and more. Rachel delves into the emotional, the psychological, and even the spiritual and does not leave people merely winded and without power but offers the well-worked strategies and solutions to combat the prostitution sphere that multiple countries have adopted. She cuts through the bias, the dogma, the hatred, the stereotypes, and the myths with the sharp effectiveness of a katana and offers you the true humanity of the prostituted woman and why each and every one of us should strive to join this battle against the sex industry. It doesn’t necessarily take a strong person to read her book. It merely takes one who is open to understanding. One who is open to exploring the valuable information based on real-life accounts, both personal and closely-witnessed and experienced and researched. No stone is left untouched and thank God for that. Thank God for Paid For. Thank God for Rachel and her testimony before the world.