Anne Bissell, a third-generation writer and former technical writer in the computer industry, has a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Performing Arts/Journalism) from the University of Maryland. She has worked for nearly twenty years as a professional writer, and has also earned a certificate in writing from the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of the popular new book “Memoirs of a sex Industry Survivor” (Cleopatra International Publications ISBN 0-9746060-0-6).

Bissell has studied women in the sex industry for over two decades. She has worked successfully with women in the criminal justice system with the mission to help them get out of prostitution. She lives with her husband and son in Southern California.

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"It's really bad now. The sex industry is totally glamorized. I mean people wear porn star tee shirts and we've made Jenna Jameson our idol," says Anne Bissell, now a wife and mother of a young son. At age 17 however, she was a prostitute.

Her publisher, Cleo Cameron, was, at age 16, a porn star known as X-rated actress Aspen Brock. Bissell is Cameron's first author for her publishing company, Cleopatra International Publications, and suggests that her book contradicts the "glamorized Pretty Woman, Heidi Fleiss, Jenna Jameson" images that are out there. She states that it will be the real truth" of life in the industry.

"Nowadays young girls might go, 'Oh, I can make a lot of money doing this. This is glamorous." It's not the case," says Cameron, who along with Bissell, claims she was abused as a child, turned to drugs to cope and unconsciously landed in the sex industry. "It was not, not what I, you know, envisioned for myself," asserts Bissell.

The two have since walked away, with Bissell now a college graduate working in the computer industry, claiming "the therapeutic value of one survivor talking to another is without parallel." It is what led them to Sex Industry Survivors Anonymous, a program for sex workers who want to break free. With the book, the two now want to help other young women avoid the pitfalls that led them along a destructive path.

"Out in Vegas there are a lot of women buried out in the desert. Their pimps kill 'em. They don't care about these women. They're just a whore. They asked for it. Who cares? "You're talking about a real person that has a heart and soul. And we need to get back to the heart and soul of our own humanity," says Bissell about helping others.

Of the program, Cameron says, "Suddenly I had the tools [to change her life], and I had someone in my life too that understood what I was going through, that cared for me in a way that I really had never known."

More on the story on Wednesday's "A Current Affair," one of broadcasting's most historic and groundbreaking news magazine programs. Hosted by Fox Sports commentator, best-selling author, columnist, practicing lawyer, former NFL star player and one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People Tim Green, A Current Affair delivers exclusive, hard-hitting stories about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances for which the half-hour strip is celebrated. The pioneering TV news magazine (www.acurrentaffair.com) is distributed throughout the United States by Twentieth Television.

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