'There were too many hurdles for girls like me, she said. For years I worried she might be right.'
Even as women push to break glass ceilings in every industry, there is still one area where too many women are working not by choice, but by necessity: the sex trade.And I know this all too well...because I was once one of those women.
for our 90 minute “session.” I worked for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, better known as the D.C. Madam, whose contact list included plenty of K-street executives and high-powered government officials. Our Johns were strictly first name only, or the occasional pseudonym, but it’s easy to spot that signature Congressional pin on a jacket lapel. I assumed most of the Johns thought women like us were too foolish to recognize it.
But I got therapy. And the therapist connected me to a vocational rehabilitation services program. I applied to college, and the program paid for my tuition and books, and gave me a small stipend for transportation.. I’m now more than 16 years sober and the founder of HER Resiliency Center , an organization designed to help the exact lost woman I once was.
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