Frundt later left home in Chicago at age 14 and soon met a “wonderful guy” in his twenties. They teamed up, living mainly in motels. They talked of living the good life together, of buying a home and getting rich. Then one day, Frundt says, the man told her “if I loved him, I would help make money for us.”
They drove to Cleveland. That night some friends of his came to their motel room. He told Frundt to have sex with a man. She refused. They raped her. Like most women beginning in prostitution–many when they are barely more than children–she blamed herself.
Afterward, she recalls, “he said that wouldn’t have happened if I would have just listened to him at first. So I took it as my fault. Instead of being angry at him for being raped, I was angry at myself for not listening to him in the first place. Right after is when he picked my clothes out, told me what to wear, and forced me to go out on the streets.” Soon she learned that he was pimping several other women.
Frundt says her story is the norm for most prostitutes, whether they work on the streets or through escort services
On the streets Frundt had to make $500 before she could come in for the night. When she brought in only $50, “he beat me up in front of the other girls and made me go outside until https://www.hookupdate.net/single-muslim-review/ I had made the money,” she says. “This is the same man who took me out to eat, listened to me when I complained about my parents, and gave me advice, but increasingly I was seeing a side of him I had never seen before. A brutal side. . . . I was scared.”
One day Frundt worked from 6 AM to 10 PM without eating or sleeping.Continue reading
