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Shermer and Moran discuss: her dysfunctional family background \\u2022 her boyfriend who pimped her \\u2022 the women who sell sex and the men who buy it \\u2022 why other prostitutes have attacked her \\u2022 agency and volition in prostitution: women and men \\u2022 why \\u201cprostituted\\u201d as something done to women (instead of choosing it)? \\u2022 what she thought about when having prostituted sex \\u2022 drugs, depression, and suicide as responses to prostitution \\u2022 the myths of prostitution \\u2022 feminism and prostitution \\u2022 how she got out of prostitution \\u2022 the harm in consenting adult women selling their bodies for sex \\u2022 what should be done about prostitution, if anything?

Rachel Moran is the Director of International Policy and Advocacy for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE, a leading non-partisan organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health harms of pornography). Her work has been endorsed by Jane Fonda, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan and many others. Her bestselling memoir, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, is regarded by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon as \\u201cthe best work by anyone on prostitution ever\\u201d and has been published in more than a dozen countries and numerous languages including German, Italian, Korean, French, and Spanish.