Prostitute of 28 years now seeks decent job

Jun 24, 2012 News

A woman, who has been a prostitute for over 28 years, yearns for a better way of life but feels constrained by her lack of education and her inability to find a stable job.
Only last month, she decided to quit prostitution and take up a job as a cleaner at the National Stadium but got fired because she suffers from asthma. Without a job, she was eventually forced to go back on the streets in order to get food.
She refused to give her real name but proudly gave her nick names as “Long Mouth” and “Push and Go.” She is 42-years-old.
Yesterday, “Push and Go” shared her experiences as a child and a teenager. She recalled growing up with her step mother and being locked in a house and was forced to stare at the four walls for years.
“My step mother use to lock me up and go and walk and I use to peep out and see children in their school clothes and how I use to admire them.”
She recalled at the age of 14, her stepmother sent her to the shop to purchase a bottle of coffee and when she returned “she tell me somebody waiting on me upstairs and when I go I see a man in the room and he tell me that he pay the woman downstairs and that I ga do what he want me to do.”
She said when he refused; the man held a knife to her neck and forced her to perform oral sex on him.
“Duh wuz the first time meh feel upset and I bite it off and he bleed and bleed.”
“Push and go” said that her step mother thought he had died and she went into hiding. “She think he bin dead and he get away but he na bin dead, some people tek he to the hospital and I never hear back anything.”
She said she remained at her stepmother’s D’Urban Street home and went out into the streets in the nights. “I use to go at High Street but business de get bad and I started working in front the Cathedral.”
She said after a few years, her stepmother’s home fell down and she was forced to sleep on the pavements.
“The streets them get hard with all this robbery and I am not getting enough customers because I am not that pretty so I had to go at a hotel in South and work for $3000 a night.”
She explained that a prostitute’s job is divided in two – long time and short time. A short-time worker earns $3000, while a long-time worker gets $7000. According to her, short time is three hours and longtime is the entire night.
She said she charges that cost because she is not “that young” and her shape is not that of “coca cola bottle.”
“Sometime them man does come and them does want you fah do you everything and when you don’t do it them does go to the owner of the hotel and tell him that we didn’t please him enough and the boss man does tek away we money and give it back to the men them.”
She said that the men are not attractive. She described them as being beggars and “nasty skin people.”
“Some of the men them does come and spend the whole night with we and when we wake up they does disappear with the money and we clothes, them does even thief we undies.”
“Sometimes I does want commit suicide because many days I does work and don’t get pay.”
“Push and Go” said that she is eagerly waiting for someone to come and offer her a good and decent job.

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