Excerpted from Lisa Carver’s
memoir, Drugs Are Nice, this tale
of teenage prostitution that went up on the site back in 2005 deviates from
the usual hard-luck or sexual-empowerment tales by occupying a space in
between, where selling your body is both a means of connection and an
unavoidable path to losing yourself. Carver wandered into prostitution as a
means to take advantage of her 19-year-old beauty. In her new role, she found a
part of herself that was incredibly adept at perceiving and playing to the
fantasies of others. She eventually struggled with leaving this job that she
essentially enjoyed in order to salvage the final bits of her true self.
— Steph Auteri
