hotel rooms, online and most visibly on street corners. tonight monroe is my guide. she spent four years in the game. so typically would girls just kind of walk back and forth until you get dates? >> yeah. it's always been on a dark street but then it's unsafe because anything could happen to you. >> barely out of high school, monroe began selling sex to support herself and her daughter. she made it look glamorous. but the reality was far darker. did someone push you into prostitution? >> at the beginning like there wasn't a gun to my head. it was manipulation. you know, go get this money, we'll be good, you can have everything you need taken care of. >> the man promising monroe big money was a pimp. they pitch themselves as managers in exchange for a cut.