Ashly Lorenzana was born in October of 1987 in Portland, OR and has remained living in the state ever since. After spending most of her childhood in a small town along the Oregon Coast, she returned to Portland in 2005 at the age of seventeen. Shortly after the move, she discovered that her mother was working as an escort in order to support her addiction to crystal meth. Ashly was also an addict, and soon became curious enough to try her luck in the now extinct Craig's List "erotic services" section.

For the next five years, Ashly worked as an independent escort in the Portland area. She is now an established "provider" of adult experiences, with outstanding reviews on national forums and review boards such as The Erotic Review and TNA Board. With more than five years of struggling with substance abuse, she is also familiar with the consequences of that lifestyle.

Ashly's passion for writing started years ago, when she was still attending school. She has kept blogs and personal journals periodically for several years. "Sex, Drugs & Being an Escort" is her first published work.

Ashley is a unique young woman who took the lemons of her childhood and made them into lemonade. Her mother was “in the business’ and she had traveled with her and it did not seem like it was wrong behavior. She loved her mother and so whatever her mother did must be all right.

You may find her choice of lifestyle distasteful, even immoral from your standards; but the better you know her, the more you will understand why she selected to continue in her profession. It helps when you understand that her school experiences actually motivated her to reject much of what society believed was proper. She was a gifted child who endured the too often teasing that bright children receive and continues without any protection from teachers or staff. She developed a sense of her own strengths as she analyzed the hypocrisy and deceit that becomes norms for social acceptance. It was therefore easy for her to believe that her body, as well as her mind, was hers and she could do with it as she pleased.

To Ashley escorting is a profession. It gives her money, friendship, and sexual gratification, while it frees her to have the time to develop her love of writing. She no longer takes new clients, but has five whom she meets on a regular basis and they comfortably support her. They all appear to be in a win-win situation. I know her writing will get even better, and she does have a lot to say and comment about our cultural biases or beliefs.