Along the way, Ms. Yedaya and her co-writer, Sari Ezouz, build the case that prostitutes are purely victims and that prostitution is so pathological, so radically dehumanizing, that the prostitute herself is little more than an empty shell.
In Canada, Stephen Charlie was convicted of charges relating to the prostitution of a child online in 2012; Charlie had encouraged her to prostitute herself as a means of making money, kept all of her earnings, and threatened her with violence if she did not continue.
They said her addiction led her to prostitute herself to pay for her next fix.
When he was a parish priest in Argentina, he tells Tornielli, a woman he knew "had to prostitute herself to provide her children with food".
In one harrowing scene, a female character is intimidated by violent members of the club demanding that she prostitute herself for their sexual gratification.
Finally, at the age of 58, she decided to (so to speak) prostitute herself and write a book in regular English that would be a bestseller.
