The Sickness and Hypocrisy of Modern Britain

Dr Brooke Magnanti, a 35-year-old research scientist and blogger, announced that she had “enjoyed herself… What I write about is something every depiction of prostitution in this country in recent years has not been permitted to say.”
Dr Magnanti dabbled in prostitution for a couple of years because she ran out of money as she was finishing her PhD. Hers was an extraordinary experience of prostitution; a lucky and for her titillating break that has certainly titillated a country that seems to desperately seek distraction in endless stories of sex and puerile “entertainment”.
That was Dr Magnanti’s story. Let’s look at some facts.

In 2003, researchers interviewed 854 working prostitutes (including male and transgender prostitutes) in nine countries. They told stories of punched faces, beaten bodies, broken ribs, black eyes and strangled necks.
70%–95% of the interviewees were physically assaulted while working as prostitutes. 60%–75% were raped while working as prostitutes; of these, more than half were repeatedly raped. 65%–95% were sexually abused as children.
68% developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), more than twice the number of Vietnam War veterans who developed PTSD. The report shows that prostitutes are victims of terrible physical and mental illness and the longer one works as a prostitute, it informs us, the more one’s health deteriorates.
A prostitute’s chance of an early death is 40 times higher than that of a woman who has never been a prostitute. 89% want to leave.
Few people in the media circus of modern Britain really care about these statistics. They are entranced by the photographs of a beautiful middle-class blond researcher, looking back at the camera, hair teasingly blowing in the wind.
They don’t want very much to examine the reality of the vast majority of women in this awful, degrading “profession” but prefer to stay with the glamorous fantasy image.
If you live in France, you’re lucky.