Sexually molested as a six year old, Regina Fowler ended up living with a friend as a young teenager where she was exposed to prostitution, and entered “the life” at age 15. During this period in her life, she began using drugs as a way to cope, but after having spent 19 years in prostitution, she escaped and has been out of “the life” for more than a decade. Ms. Fowler now works to support and mentor girls and women and publicly challenge the misconception that women are in prostitution by choice and that they like what they do, rather than having been victimized and forced into it by unstable and unsafe circumstances beyond their control.