Meet the Women Who Left the Sex Industry to Make a Difference

“That's a hard transition,” Harmony Dust, the founder and executive director of Treasures, told Verily in a phone interview. Treasures is a survivor-led charity that helps women transition out of the sex industry and supports them in rebuilding their lives by offering support groups, emergency financial-relief, and life-skills coaching… One evening in 2003, she found herself sitting in her car across the street from the club she’d recently quit, feeling like she was looking at a prison that had once trapped her. She found a stack of cards in her console offering a Bible verse from Proverbs 31: “Her value...