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# Former Prostitute in the Confessional
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4021/
- Published: 2006-02-21T15:09:04.000Z
- Updated: 2006-02-21T15:09:04.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Religion, #wpChunk

> When I was visiting Westfield Monastery, I told Sister that prostitution is a lot like an addiction. And like many addictions, the struggle to not slide back into that addiction when things in life get rough is an on-going battle. Even now it is something I struggle with as the days pass and I'm still not working, and the University folk can't get their act together and get things up and running for this degree I was supposed to start working on this week. I could log onto Craig's List this minute and be turning tricks in an hour if I slipped and “took that first drink” as the metaphor goes. The only thing that keeps me on the straight and narrow is going to Confession and confessing the temptation. But there is a certain grace here as well, because it is in these moments of weakness that I am reminded once again that God uses his servants to give me strength. Each time I face a priest in the confessional and bring up the topic of prostitution, I brace myself for the condemnation. I'm still waiting though. The only thing I've received is love, empathy and compassion, things I find I'm completely unable to brace myself for and so they end up breaking me apart in ways that I cannot predict.

That's from Video meliora, who has a great assortment of blog readings [at this link](http://poncer.blogspot.com/2006/02/when-i-was-visiting-westfield.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). The whole idea of prostitution has always shocked me, both the ladies who "do it" for money and the skanky guys who pay them. It's never been a tempation for me. Indeed, it has always repulsed me . . . and it's not because I'm so devilishly good-looking that I don't need to pay for sex.