How to pronounce "overdraft"

I'm not a nun, either.

(Laughter)

Most of those people would tell you that selling sex is degrading;

that no one would ever choose to do it;

that it's dangerous; women get abused and killed.

In fact, most of those people would say,

"There should be a law against it!"

Maybe that sounds reasonable to you.

It sounded reasonable to me until the closing months of 2009,

when I was working two dead-end, minimum-wage jobs.

Every month my wages would just replenish my overdraft.

I was exhausted and my life was going nowhere.

Like many others before me,

I decided sex for money was a better option.

Now don't get me wrong --

I would have loved to have won the lottery instead.

But it wasn't going to happen anytime soon,

and my rent needed paying.

So I signed up for my first shift in a brothel.

In the years that have passed,

I've had a lot of time to think.