“S*X WORKERS, PROSTITUTES, CALL GIRLS- THEY TOO ARE WOMEN AFTER ALL AREN'T THEY?”

“S*X WORKERS, PROSTITUTES, CALL GIRLS- THEY TOO ARE WOMEN AFTER ALL AREN'T THEY?”

From when I remember, I always dreamed of being successful in the eyes of my parents. I knew I wanted to make them proud and repay them for giving birth to me. Isn’t this every girl’s dream at the end of the day? Most girls want to get married at some point in their lifetime, have children and see them grow up to be like their parents. But is this the case with all the women in our society? Well, NO!!

When you open your eyes and face reality, it strikes you hard doesn’t it? And then, there are these women called “prostitutes”! For those of who don’t know, “prostitutes” are women who have sexual intercourse with random men who pay money in return of the satisfaction they receive. And, in Wikipedia terms, prostitutes are women who engage in sexual relations in exchange for payment or benefit of some kind. Okay maybe they are receiving some kind of payment, but at what cost?

When people talk so inhumanly about a prostitute, do they consider under what circumstances she had to choose that profession? A young girl, would never aspire of becoming a sex worker in future. She would in fact, dream the same dream like me. Maybe, she was the only bread winner of her family, or maybe was an orphan, or found no other way to support herself and her loved ones. In some village in India, fathers, brothers or in some cases even the husbands force their women into the business because they are not “man” enough to earn a living. In some other village, this profession is passed on from one generation to another as a custom or family business of some sort. There are alarmingly increasing rates of cases where girls are being kidnapped and sent to become prostitutes. Is the girl child meant for this? Is this what she was born for? If so, then why do they pray to Goddesses like Kali, Parvathi and Lakshmi and so on?

How can you assume that someone would be okay with selling their body for some pieces of paper? Wouldn’t it hurt to see a different man every night or be forced to do something so intimate and so sensitive? What people don’t understand is that a woman can never choose to sell her respect unless she has no other choice. Definitely, she wouldn’t be enjoying it, even though she might put up a face that she is.

Another dream a girl usually has, making children and raising them just to be like her. In this case, first of all, female prostitutes are victim to a high number of sexual diseases, and on top of that, they do give birth to children, but the father”s” of the children in most cases are unknown. So would at least the kids have a future of a different kind? NO!!! There’s always a blank to fill in the forms as to what the profession of the parent is, what the name of the father is, what’s the occupation of the mother is and similar questions. But, the actual question is, would you ever want your mother, sister, daughter, wife or friend to ever go through all this in life??

What people also have to consider is what happens to women who take up prostitution? They aren’t given any place in the society, they aren’t treated with any respect, nor are they recognised as humans. They don’t have value in the society, they are shunned by their own family members, they are ignored or looked down upon by their known ones and they basically can’t lead a normal life. Okay, now that they have already chosen the profession, can they decide to stop working as a prostitute? NO!!! Okay, can they ever get married and start a new life? NO!!! Who would get married to them selflessly? NO ONE!!! Okay let’s say they somehow agree to continue with the same profession, can they do so even when they turn 50?? NO!!! After a certain age their “sex appeal” and “sex value” comes to a standstill. They can’t even continue with the same profession, they can’t start a new life, they can’t move on, they can’t stop, etc. There’s no end to this particular chapter in their life at all. And people think, “what does she know what life is, after all, her work is to just sleep around with a few men! She gets paid for getting pleasure!”

Easy to talk, easy to see, easy to even hear sometimes. But impossible to undergo what these women go through. RESPECT THEM FOR WHAT THEY DO, WHAT THEY TOLERATE AND ALSO, WHOM THEY TOLERATE.