For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that sex work is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, Government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Little is said of the damage, violation, suffering, and torment of prostitution on the body and the mind, nor of the deaths, suicides and murders that are routine in the sex industry. Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade refutes the lies and debunks the myths spread by the industry through the lived experiences of women who have survived prostitution. These disturbing stories give voice to formerly prostituted women who explain why they entered the sex trade. They bravely and courageously recount their intimate experiences of harm and humiliation at the hands of sex buyers, pimps and traffickers and reveal their escape and emergence as survivors. Edited by Caroline Norma and Melinda Tankard Reist, Prostitution Narratives documents the reality of prostitution revealing the cost to the lives of women and girls. Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade will strengthen and support the global campaign to abolish prostitution, provide solidarity and solace to those who bear its scars and hopefully help women and girls exit this dehumanising industry.

Contents TESTIMONIES -- Saved by Horses: Linda -- The Fake You: Jade -- Prostitution Sounded Like a Life of Adventure: Annabelle -- Groomed into Prostitution: Kat -- Didn't Come to Hear Bitches Recite Poetry: Rhiannon -- Internalising the Violence: Tanja Rahm -- We Are All Expendable: Christie -- Porn Companies Don't Care if We Live or Die: Jan E. Villarubia -- A Piece of Me: Kendra Chase -- Goodbye Mademoiselle: `Mademoiselle' -- No Life for a Human Being: Autumn Burris -- My Pain on Display: Donna -- When You Become Pornography: Christine Stark -- And They Call This `Sex Work'?: Simone Watson -- Incest Was the Boot Camp for My Prostitution: Jacqueline Lynne -- Warning: Prostitution Destroys Your Soul: Genevieve Gilbert -- I Was Worth More: Charlotte -- Keep the Faith: Rebecca Mott -- My Canvas, My Pain, My Healing: Suzzan Blac -- COMMENTARIES -- I Was a Pimp: Jacqueline Gwynne -- The Men Who Buy Women for Sex: Caitlin Roper -Ten Myths about Prostitution, Trafficking and the Nordic Model: Meagan Tyler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.