Louise Perry begins her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, with a juxtaposition of the iconic lives of Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner. Perry argues that their lives are an apt analogy for the Sexual Revolution and the many ways it has harmed women.

Over the course of this series, I will introduce and humanize the women prostituted here, share my cultural analysis and these women’s insights and experiences -- they wanted readers to hear them -- to spread awareness of the lived consequences of commercial sexual exploitation in one of the most privileged countries in the world.