From the inside: "Financial independence, sexual choices, control of our bodies, equal pay, painting out the line between the rights of the wife and the rights of the mitress - these were what hookers had always fought for. But the firest item on our bill of rights was cash. One way women hd always found to get financial independence, or any finances at all, was prostitution. By the seventies, many more women had decided that they couldn't afford their 'virtue' any more, especially the virtue of being poor and sacrificing for a lifetime. With women at every level of society stepping out of their place, challenging every convention, it was much hrder to divide us into 'good ones' and 'bad ones'. The more we felt able to challenge the laws that persecute us, the more of us there were who didn't feel ashamed."