Why does a woman sell her body? - Observatory - News

Why does a woman sell her body? By Lava Khaled Translated by:Suzan abadi 21-11- 2009 She finds herself in a house empty of everything except poverty, disease, a drunken father who boozes day and night, a disturbed brother, and a mother who needs kidney dialysis every week. She has no one to look after her, although she’s young and innocent--how can she afford to live in this city under such difficult circumstances? What fate assigned her an irresponsible father, a troubled family? Why is there is nobody to ask what she’s going through, why there is no employment available to protect her from the necessity to beg? She didn't wait for something to come to her; after searching long and hard for work, she realized that she can make a quick profit--with the blessing of her father, cynically silent and primarily concerned with how to continue to buy the wine that causes the misery of his family. She didn't know the significance of her body; she was too young to understand its symbols. She used to hear, when she was a little girl, that her eyes are beautiful, her body is compact, and her face is like the moon. She didn't realize that she would sell this body after the moon rose and the sun set over the streets of the city. What is her name? In which city does she violate her body? It doesn't matter, except that she has become prey, a victim, after her neighbor’s daughter—also a prostitute-- taught her that to sell one’s body is the way to a huge fortune , a quick shortcut for the thousand-mile journey towards economic stability for her family. As a child, she, like other girls, was constantly told to pay attention to herself and to keep her body away from others’ rude eyes. She says that she was not aware that her mother, who added to poverty disease, grief, and tears, wanted her to preserve her virginity, the most precious thing for a woman in the East. The father, however, was unconcerned with the body or the honor of his daughter; he was only interested in how to stay drunk until the morning sun rpse. She realized later on, like other girls, what her mother had meant by her warnings. She also noted that fate had assigned her these miserable circumstances and desperate parents, and also given her virginity as a way out, so valuable because it had been cherished so long. This is the East, with all its details, contradictions, and double standards. She escorted her neighbors to brothels in distant cities. She abandoned her historical crown and her kingdom’s boundaries for raiders who appeared in the night bearing money, ugly and important. They paid her at night; in the morning, the same raiders became her harshest and most moralistic critics. This little girl admits that she errs, and the money that she earns is dishonest, but she also knows that her terrible circumstances have robbed her freedom and her will to choose what is right for her. When she abandoned the purity of her body, her “immoral” money enabled her to pay for medicine for her brother or her mother’s surgery. …She was forced to sell her body by men who exported and imported her as a slave. This despicable trade affects all of our conservative societies; we are used to hearing and seeing this practice, but all we do is to gaze at it and walk away. This is the story of the young girl Huda, who is seeking salvation after circumstances, poverty, and need have forced her to sell the most precious thing that she owns, and to continue selling the most precious to the dirty of the world for money. Huda is now crying out for help rising out of this life; she cries aloud, “I'm not a slave. I was overcome by bad luck, and my father basically sold me as a slave in the market of sex.” Thara E- Magazine – No. 209, 21/11/2009 – 5th year of publication. Republishing is permitted on the condition that the source is acknowledged

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