"Sex in the city"
Posted on August 12, 2002 - Filed Under Business |
BUSINESS LOG
BY EVA V. DE LEON
Imagine these scenarios: You are standing in front of Rocca Cinema along downtown in Urdaneta City. Somebody in her teens while others already in their 40s approached you and offered few minutes of sexual pleasure. But sorry, sir, the service is not free. You have to negotiate for the price which ranges from P500 and below.
The “happiness” will be done in the four corners of a hotel room. But if your budget is lacking, it can be done in a nearby shanty at a very affordable price.
Don’t be shocked because sometimes these sex workers tag along with them their own daughters. Meaning, at an early age, they are already exposing their own flesh and blood to the sex trade, which for them is the easiest and fastest way to earn money.
Go to Dagupan City. Stay for few minutes along MH del Pilar St, just near the traffic intersection. Immediately, a gay pimp will approach and offer you few hours of sex with girls under “her” care who are seated nearby. Take a pick but you also have to negotiate for the price for taking them out.
The price also varies: from P500 to P200, or if you’re lucky enough, you can have her at a cheaper price.
Where you can bring her to is also nearby. There are about three of four lodges or inns available for your pleasure.
If you want, you can go either along Arellano going farther in Bonuan to a place which media friends call Caniogan.
There are many cheap commodities waiting for you there.
These have been existing for years now. This is not a fiction. This problem remains unabated. More girls are getting into sex trade. That’s the sad reality which some guys, either co-workers or friends confessed to have experienced.
If the police goes after them but files no case against them, the problem persists.
The most common answer these girls give why they allow themselves to live this way is because of poverty.
Hit the problem right at its head, said a ranking Church leader in Dagupan City who offered his solutions to those who are trying to find a way to solve this headache. As of this writing, the source said they are devising a plan not just on the health aspect of the sex workers but on giving them alternative and possibly decent livelihood.
Last heard of, some officials in Dagupan City have been conducting seminars with some sex workers here.
But will it work?, I asked a friend. No matter how good the thinkable solutions are, the final answer still lies on the sex worker herself. That is, if she is ready to embrace change in her life.
Everytime I talk about prostitution, I remember someone who tried to ignore the philandering ways of her husband. The wife at first conditioned her mind that men by nature are polygamous. She acted as if nothing’s wrong with their married life. Until she herself was afflicted with a sexually transmitted disease. She wondered why? Until the guilty husband subjected himself to a laboratory test and found out that he had a gonorrhea. It took only few weeks that the long suffering, pitiful and innocent wife decided to separate from her man.
She only had this to consider: Will I, despite all my sacrifices, deserve all this from him?
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