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Claire Carthonnet - J'ai des choses a vous dire

Original title: "J'ai des choses a vous dire: Une prostituée témoigne" (I have things to tell you: A prostitute testifies) by Claire Carthonnet.

'A prostitute since the age of seventeen, Claire Carthonnet chose to show up and speak to defend her sisters from the sidewalk. When she grabs the microphone shouting: 'I have things to tell you', at a symposium for the abolition of prostitution at UNESCO, when, courageously, she argues alone and against everyone on television or, more recently, when she demonstrates with her face uncovered during rallies against the Sarkozy bill, she is part of all the fights.

"I was carefree, I lived like a bourgeois... before the electroshock..." The shock is called Gina, "an old woman who sold herself for a pack of cigarettes and a sandwich..." It is this meeting that Claire Carthonnet tells us, the earthquake and the awareness it caused in her life, the commitment that followed. She evokes the situation of foreign prostitutes, the way society looks at call girls in general but also her daily work, the clients, and the violence. To explain why she chose to be a call girl, Claire Carthonnet also recounts some of the events of her childhood and adolescence. For the first time, she reveals a painful and unexpected secret in a moving and unique testimony.'

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