The tale of a woman whose moral certainties about prostitution are challenged by her experience is warm and engaging, if at times a little hectoring
“Everybody thinks they understand what the word prostitute means. It’s this idea of victimhood, of badness and helplessness,” Kirstin Innis told the Herald Scotland.
“Laws are made without even talking to the people whose lives they are going to affect. We assume that these people are victims and it’s a kindness to speak for them. That comes with pity. And if you’re pitying somebody you can’t really empathise with them.”
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