Linda is a fake
name I refer to a 32 years old woman who has been a prostitute for 10 years.
Through one of my work, I got the chance to interview her story shortly.
At the age of
22, she has decided by herself to become a prostitute instead of looking for
other job because she didn’t have any education and she needed easy money which
pay quickly, so that she could effort daily expense in her family of four
siblings and a sick mother. Later, her siblings got married and they had moved
on with their lives without taking any responsibility on the sick mother.
Linda has been a
self-employed prostitute. She has been on her own looking for her customer
which each time would pay her 5$ after having sex. Each day she could get 3 customers
at most. She married once to a man whom she expected to be a helper, but turned
out to be a drug addicted who would beat her when she couldn’t give him money.
They broke up and leave her a son who is 10 years old now. When Linda left home
for work, her son sometime asked her “Mum, what is your work?” she said “I work
at Karaok” Linda never tells her son about her real work, and she has no idea
when and how she would tell him.
When asked what the
most difficult time she has been through as a prostitute was, she answered with
tears. Sometime ago she was arrested together with other prostitutes into a
police car. The car brought her and other girls to a re-education center but
she wasn’t allowed to take off. Those four polices dropped other girls at the
center and brought her with them. They all raped her. There was also times when
customer forced her to eat a condom after sex.
I ran out of
words to ask her after hearing these. What polices are for? Aren’t they supposed
to protect their citizen? How would you tell your son if you were her? Is
prostitution a job to look down for?
