IT'S REALLY NOT FAIR

I don't understand why it has to be normal. Girls, women hawking their bodies. It's an eyesore for me. But, I don't get why it has to be a norm. Why people cannot see what I see, or feel what I feel when I unfortuantely stumble into one of this breast baring, flabby skinned women standing on the road, waiting for men( who obviously are mentally retarded) to price them, like bad goods.
I see beyond a girl standing on the road at an odd hour. I see beyond the rascal in her eyes, the desperate in her actions. I see beyond the skimpy clothes, the sagging face and breast. I see beyond the loud make up, and the smacking of gum. What I really see, is a broken girl. A human being that has been tortured by life. A girl that has been abused, cursed, rejected. A girl with blighted hopes. I see a girl that doesn't know what it means to have self worth. I see a depraved girl. I see a girl that been served a bad dish by life.
It's pathetic when I hear people judge them, and call them all sorts of names. I don't mean to be sentimental. Yes! I know prostitution is bad, in short, very bad.
But somehow, maybe because I love the story behind the story. Because I know behind every person, whether bad or good there is a striking story that either broke or made them. Maybe that is why, when I see this girls I cringe. Not because of them now, but because of the story behind, that has made them what they are now; Desperate, greedy, shameless.

Prostitution is like slow suicide. The first time you do it, you kill something in you. But, you don't entirely kill yourself, you just kill yourself, a little. Small. And, it's this simple; No matter what kind of girl you are, no matter where you come from. That first time you feel disgusted, very disgusted. But you do it again, and again till you have completely killed the very essence of your womanhood. That thing that makes you feel uneasy when a man's gaze linger on your breasts longer than necessary.
More than the prostitutes, the people who I feel bad for, are the ones who exploit this women. Who actually pick them up, price them like stolen goods, and maltreat them. It's really unfair.

My point is that, every prostitute you see on the streets, in Nigeria, and in the whole world started naively, ignorant, scared, ashamed.

You are free to judge them. You are also free, to be like me, and understand them.

There are some girls that are financially comfortable, but still go into prostitution for the fun of meeting men (or some other spiritually inclined madness), TRUST ME those ones don't stand on the road. The one's I pity are those ones who at a point felt they have no other option than to sell their body for money. Standing on the road, in the middle of the night, not knowing if it's a blood sucking monster that would pick you up, is something a person does out of extreme desperation, and I feel they deserved to be pitied.

And I feel the government should do something about it. It's poverty that lead this girls to prostitute. Apart from that, it's a topic people fail to trash. Everyday we see NGO's upon NGO's, springing up here and there. But, none has decided to help take these girls off the street. To teach them self worth. To help them financially, and emotionally. To give them a good future. Not all of them want to be where they are, they just don't know better.