HUGE, HUGE, HUGE safeguarding fail on the part of the BBC/Theroux to include the 14 yo daughter, without even disguising her face or voice. Shockingly wrong. That poor girl. She has no idea, she cannot possibly give informed consent to being in the programme, she could not know the potential repercussions of it.
Just horrified at that. Can’t believe no one thought to protect her. And the delusion that her mother is a “protective” mother when in fact she’s so damaged she can’t see that involving her daughter in this is the opposite of protective. I don’t doubt Victoria loves her daughter very much but her perspective is too skewed for her to really understand what it means to keep your child safe.
What a heartbreaking programme overall. “Abuse has made me numb to sex so now I can use that numbness to make money out of being further abused, yay!” Said (obvs paraphrased) literally through the tears, in the case of Ashley. And without the tears, just numbness, by Victoria. Not sure which is sadder.

Just all very sad. It’s a shame Theroux didn’t include any kind of feminist perspective on it at all - he talked at the end about society judging women who sell sex but not a word about judging men who buy sex. Guess most of the world just doesn’t see it like that, which is depressing in itself. The feminist perspective just really isn’t part of the mainstream at all, is it? And definitely not “cool”.