Switzerland a go go: Many of the women who lay themselves bare in Switzerland's cabarets didn't land there by choice.

Swiss NewsNbr. 2002, June 2002

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Close-up - Prostitution and cabaret dancing - International Pages

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Switzerland a go go: Many of the women who lay themselves bare in Switzerland's cabarets didn't land there by choice.

Growing up in the West Indies Paula Charles had plenty of dreams about what she wanted to be when she grew up. Becoming a stripper in a Swiss cabaret wasn't one of them.

Charles, 45, is one of a horde of poor women who are lured to Switzerland and other European countries with promises of money and security-only to find themselves coerced into peeling off their clothes in public. And more. "I was used and abused," she says.

But she distinguished herself from the crowd in 1995 by authoring a memoir "Soul Stripping." Pu...

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