Prostitutes.

I’m not in the capacity to think well at this very moment so my title sort of sucks. 

Anyway, me and a bunch of my classmates were fortunate enough to go to an institution that takes care of prostitutes and their children, they also help them by giving them better jobs. We were expecting sexy ladies indeed, well what else would a woman selling her body look like? That’s why I was shocked when I saw a woman, about the age of 50 with skin hanging from her arm just flapping around, testify her life as a prostitute.

I really thought prostitutes love their job. I mean, have sex and get paid for doing it, who wouldn’t want that right? And from what I know, they cost a lot so most probably rich guys could only afford them and most of the time, rich guys have a pretty face. Have sex with a hot guy and get paid? CHA CHING DREAM JOB!

or so I thought…

The old woman started her story by telling us how she got into being a prostitute. Husband left her, jobless, needs money for her 3 children, typical depressed woman story. Since she didn’t finish school, she couldn’t find decent job. The job she got was being a cashier at a local bar. Her salary? 10 PESOS (Philippine Currency) PER NIGHT. TRUST ME, THAT’S NOT ENOUGH. It could only buy you a fucking 250mL soda. Since her wage wasn’t that satisfying, she tried being a dancer then she went on being a full-time prostitute.

From 10Pesos, her wage reached 300-500 pesos. But out of every 300 pesos, all she could bring home was 100 pesos. She did everything to get extra cash. Allowing her customers to do anything to her. Some of the things that I could recall was how they forced her not to use condom (because of that, she had abortion for about 6 times) try sex positions and a lot more that were against her will.

The cheapest she could get was a breakfast. Right, sex = meal. there were also times where her customer didn’t pay her and even stole her wallet. She also told us that she had a lot of customers, from drivers, cargo ship dudes, businessmen, politicians, hell even a PRIEST! She was in demand by then, so I heard. 

While recalling the events of her life, I saw her trying her best not to drop a single tear. It just goes to show that she didn’t like the job one bit. 

Strangers saw her naked, so there’s nothing more humiliating than that right? Well, no. One night while dancing, the local police raided the night club and took her and 2 other girls. THEY WERE FORCED TO RIDE THE POLICE JEEPNEY WITH NO CLOTHES ON. THEY WERE FORCED TO STAND IN A POLICE ROOM WITH NO CLOTHES ON. THEY WERE RIDICULED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DID. I got furious on that part. These women did everything so that their family would survive. they did the mist humiliating things so that they could feed their children and all you could do is discriminate them?! you could just help them you know.

If you ask me, they’re the real heroes. They don’t care anymore about their pride. They love their family so much that they would do anything for them. I hope that one day people would feel the same about prostitutes and instead of discriminating them, we should help them. Not by buying them of course.