Nashville, Tennessee sees over 1, arrests a year for prostitution and solicitation. And for some women, the arrest is the best thing that could happen. Nashville features a unique system of community programs to help prostitutes get off the streets, including Magdalene House. It often involves help to beat drug addiction and to cope with their childhood history of violence and abuse. It works, sometimes, and Magdalene has become a national model. If you work in the sex trade or used to, call and tell us your story, Email us, talk npr.
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Why can't we accept facts that prove us wrong? But first, we're going to talk about up from prostitution. We're going to get to Jacki Lyden in just a moment, but there's a caller we want to start the program with, and that's Sam ph , Sam with us from Belleville in Illinois. SAM: I met my husband.
I was lucky. I met a man that didn't want anything to do with it, though he was a john. They always say don't fall in love with your johns, but I did. So I was lucky. I walked away from it. SAM: I was. I was. I worked for madams. I had nothing to do with pimps.
Pimps are very bad news in the business for girls that want to stay clean and have their own money. SAM: No, no, a lot of the girls don't. I - you know, we would have pimps drop off girls and try intimidation, you know, asking where your family is.
