Prostitution survivor testimony: Alice Glass

nordicmodelnow

Aug 15 2025, 2:25 AM

“… So whatever amount of brittle self-determination exists when one enters prostitution depletes as time moves on. Though I began my journey in this industry with a certain amount of naive zeal, by the end I felt increasingly trapped. The initial high of the money gave way to the dank, uncomfortable awareness of how nauseating suffering through a prostitutional encounter actually was. I remember one day, when I was charged with having the penis in my mouth of a man I found neither attractive nor affable, and having a sudden meditative like realisation of what was going on. A sharpening into focus. Why was I doing this? How could he enjoy this? The questions, like bile, I swallowed down, until they could no longer simmer underneath. Eventually, every time I had to engage with a punter I became physically sick.

I didn’t choose to leave prostitution, my body chose for me. In the end, it knew better. Sometimes, our bodies do not suffer the indoctrination of patriarchal conveniences so easily, as do our fronter-most consciousnesses.

Having to manifest sexual activity due to desperation is not consent. Utilising a poor woman for intimate gratification – with the sole knowledge that you are only being engaged with because she needs the money – is not a neutral, amoral act. Recognising that any state or community cannot wholly function on purported amorality or false notions of neutrality, is not stuffiness or frigidity. And neither is believing that women are not for sale.” – Alice Glass

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