Iraqi Women Increasingly Turning To Prostitution
August 16, 2007 by Thundercat
Filed under Rants & Reviews
Just found this article on CNN talking about how more and more Iraqi women are turning to prostitution to help feed their starving children.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The women are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used. They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children — for as little as $8 a day.
"People shouldn’t criticize women, or talk badly about them," says 37-year-old Suha as she adjusts the light colored scarf she wears these days to avoid extremists who insist women cover themselves. "They all say we have lost our way, but they never ask why we had to take this path."
A mother of three, she wears light makeup, a gold pendant of Iraq around her neck, and an unexpected air of elegance about her.
"I don’t have money to take my kid to the doctor. I have to do anything that I can to preserve my child, because I am a mother," she says, explaining why she prostitutes herself.
Anger and frustration rise in her voice as she speaks.
"No matter what else I may be, no matter how off the path I may be, I am a mother!" Video Watch a woman describe turning to prostitution to "save my child" В»
Her clasped hands clench and unclench nervously. Suha’s husband thinks that she is cleaning houses when she goes away.
So does Karima’s family.
"At the start I was cleaning homes, but I wasn’t making much. No matter how hard I worked it just wasn’t enough," she says.
Karima, clad in all black, adds, "My husband died of lung cancer nine months ago and left me with nothing."
She has five children, ages 8 to 17. Her eldest son could work, but she’s too afraid for his life to let him go into the streets, preferring to sacrifice herself than risk her child.
She was solicited the first time when she was cleaning an office.
"They took advantage of me," she says softly. "At first I rejected it, but then I realized I have to do it."
Both Suha and Karima have clients that call them a couple times a week. Other women resort to trips to the market to find potential clients. Or they flag down vehicles.
Prostitution is a choice more and more Iraqi women are making just to survive.
Don’t Miss"It’s increasing," Suha says. "I found this ‘thing’ through my friend, and I have another friend in the same predicament as mine. Because of the circumstance, she is forced to do such things."
Violence, increased cost of living, and lack of any sort of government aid leave women like these with few other options, according to humanitarian workers.
They don’t call it the world’s oldest profession for nothing.
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At least for $8 a day you get sometin outta it……. unlike the 50 cents a day you send the children in 3rd world countries LOL
–They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children — for as little as $8 a day.–
With those reasonable prices, this reads like it was written by the Iraqi Tourism dept.
Now Imma surf on over to Expedia…
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