Brief Summary Of Paid For By Rachel Moran

Rachel Moran. A once, happy and healthy Irish child, gleaming with the excitement of the day, became engulfed by her circumstances at the age of 14. She was deemed a ward of the state when her father killed himself and her mother quickly spiraled into the depths of her gripping mental illness. Within a year, she was hungry, scared and homeless on the streets, with nothing in her possession other than her body. By the age of 15 and before she was even a woman, she stepped into the dark circle of prostitution. She recalls the circumstances leading up to her selling her body as one big blur, like a hurricane of thoughts all blown together, gone but never the same. Gone are the memories of happiness. Gone are the choices to be made, the

A product of her circumstances, she became weaker in the grasp of human trafficking. No matter how many times she showered, the guilt never went away, no matter how many dollars she made, her pride could not be rebought. As she slipped deeper into the tight grasp of the young man who promised her comfort within the sex trade, she turned to illicit drugs and felony crime in an attempt to silence her pain. Rachel shared the details of her entry into the sex trade with the New York Times Opinion column and in her book, Paid For, both in 2015. She now dedicates her life to sharing her experiences as a survivor of the sex trade, having written several books on the damage prostitution does to society and young girls, in particular. She is also the founder of Space International, which advocates for the immediate abolition of the human sex trafficking. Sadly enough, Rachel’s story is far from an isolated incident. According to an article written by Gus Lubin, on Business Insider from 2015, it is suspected that “40 to 42 million people in the world are prostitutes, with 80% of them being female.” (Lubin, 2015) In the US alone there are over 1 million estimated victims of human sex trafficking, even though it is only legal in

(Fanni, 2014) Ironically enough, religious traditions in this era gave way to the idea of sex trade and it evolved from there on. Eventually, the act of engaging in sex with multiple people led to disease and public dismay from the Romans who believed that those who were diseased were a disgrace to their society. In turn, they—along with many other countries, banned the sex trade and began the cultural notion that prostitution is disgusting and