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Sex work or no work
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 04:19 am |
OMG! Take a look at this article.... It's so horrible!
For an impoverished beauty queen, a stark choice: sex work or no work
Women's media campaign in Nicaragua overturns crackdown on brothels across capital.
What Natasha does on the bed in the dingy room with flaking orange paint so shames her she cannot bring herself to use the word. She calls it "so and so" and sells it here from midday to midnight, six days a week.
On a very good day she makes £45. With each 30-minute session earning £2.50 that works out at 18 different men, many drunk, some violent. She tries to forget the very good days.
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"I don't want to be with a strange man who wants to kiss your whole body. Some suck you up and leave red marks. It's ugly." Natasha shuddered. "Ugly, ugly, ugly."
Three years ago she won two beauty contests and was runner-up in another two, including Miss Best Legs, on Nicaragua's impoverished Caribbean coast. With dreams of modelling she boarded a bus for the distant capital, Managua.
But Nicaragua has not fully recovered from its 1980s war and remains the second-poorest country in the Americas after Haiti. Economic necessity kills many dreams.
Now 19, she is a veteran of Salvadoreño, a bar and brothel in a tough barrio known as Costa Rica. The days pass in a miasma of beer, sweat and perfume. "I would not wish my worst enemy to be here," she said. "This is the worst thing you can do."
Not quite, it turns out. There is an even worse alternative: doing nothing. Two months ago police raids shut brothels across the city, expelled clients and sent sex workers home. The leftwing Sandinista government billed the crackdown as a socially progressive effort to protect women from exploitation.
The would-be beneficiaries did not see it that way. Their work, however ghastly, was a ticket out of poverty.
Dozens of prostitutes from Salvadoreño led a revolt against what they said was a violation of rights. Emerging from the shadows of their trade, they went public and mounted an unprecedented media campaign to overturn the ban. Astonished by the protests, the authorities relented and within a week the women were back at work.
"It was just before Christmas and we badly needed money for our families," said Carolina Hacks, 23, another worker at Salvadoreño. "But then we always need money, we're the breadwinners for our children and parents."
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 08:54 pm |
Very tragic....so sad.
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 08:58 pm |
Quoting alameda: Very tragic....so sad. |
I know...
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 09:00 pm |
So sad that these women are forced to fight for something so vial just to survive. I can't imagine how despirate they must feel.
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 09:16 pm |
Quoting Elisabeth: So sad that these women are forced to fight for something so vial just to survive. I can't imagine how despirate they must feel. |
Yes, exactly.... I cannot imagine how they can survive this way, the emotional scar must be unbearable. If I was in their shoes, I think I'd have to die...
This is only a part of a much larger problem. Women from such poor countries are often trafficked as sex workers to western countries. For example, I read long time ago that in Germany, they were going to bring a couple thousand sex workers from eastern countries for some sort of big game event....
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 09:45 pm |
Quoting catwoman: Quoting Elisabeth: So sad that these women are forced to fight for something so vial just to survive. I can't imagine how despirate they must feel. |
Yes, exactly.... I cannot imagine how they can survive this way, the emotional scar must be unbearable. If I was in their shoes, I think I'd have to die...
This is only a part of a much larger problem. Women from such poor countries are often trafficked as sex workers to western countries. For example, I read long time ago that in Germany, they were going to bring a couple thousand sex workers from eastern countries for some sort of big game event....
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Not to mention it could also be a death sentence via HIV. I think the only thing to do about it is consciousness awarness. I mean, how could a man actually want to "be" with a woman under those conditions? Granted,the women have to attract customers in order to survibe...but they are still being forced.
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 09:49 pm |
I think what is even more urgent is improving the economic situation of women.
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 10:06 pm |
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 10:12 pm |
Quoting MrX67: Chastity can't buy with any money.. |
What are you talking about!!!! Have you read the article????
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30 Jan 2008 Wed 10:13 pm |
Quoting MrX67: Quoting catwoman: I think what is even more urgent is improving the economic situation of women. |
Chastity can't buy with any money.. |
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