The Untoched Vocation of Prostitution

Prostitution at every age and sex is becoming more startling and rampant to a degree that it poses a threat to the future of Sierra Leone. Most disheartening is the fact that the practice is enjoying an autonomous status as nobody seems to care. An appreciable comprehension of my analysis would be to attempt a definition of the concept Prostitution in the context of this piece.

I perceive prostitution as a commercialization of sex (the exchange of sex for money). It can be deduced that this concise definition of the concept lends credence to my initial assertion that the nation’s future is under serious threat. The reason being, a horrible figure of the country’s population cannot be dissociated from this ‘sacrosanct profession’. Let me also fascinate readers with the harsh reality that this practice is not only associated with the feminine sex but that it also captures a greater spectrum of males. Astounded? 

Just hold your breath a while. Please drift away from the stereotyped perception that women are the only committers of prostitution and take a quick snap at those men who cling on to more than two partners or even women twice older, for material gains they stand to make from such relationships.

Many would want to argue that they are not prostitutes because they are not seen at night within the vicinities of the beach or pubs or other notable prostitution sights. Can someone please tell the difference between an easy-to-identify prostitute and a person dating two or more partners in secret? There is none!

Most prostitutes have used LOVE as a pretext to justify their involvement in the act. Love is the cloak used to seal the real intent of unions – extortion of cash from partners with stronger financial status. Don’t be misled, it all hinges on prostitution. Many of the easy-to-identify prostitutes have advanced poverty as the cause to their entering prostitution, an excuse subject to debate.

My opinion on this is that women go into prostitution simply to satisfy their insatiable desires with little or no regard for the moral, social and religious implications involved.

Sadly, this practice has gradually crawled into institutions that are supposed to be held in high esteem. School going ages are virtually seen on a daily basis carrying ladies’ bags, one of the trade marks of prostitutes, roaming from one office to another to do what? Heaven knows. I challenge a search of these ladies bags, to be found will be cosmetics, cloths, few coins, tooth brushes and tooth paste, you name the rest. 

Many wander about with no certainty as to where they can pass the night off. One only need to take a night stroll down one of the city’s major streets to see mostly teenage girls who are supposed to be at home reading, half naked, advertising to get attraction.

The issue of dress is a different thing all together. Most girls have fallen in love with the practice of being nude. Their style of dress has made it difficult to discern what occasion they are set for. 

Most of the dresses displayed by girls are the trade marks of prostitutes. Such people would argue that they are not prostitutes if challenged. The question then arises; why do we have the number of prostitutes increasing by the day? It’s plain! Because there has been a proportionate increase in the number of demand for prostitutes. Don’t be shocked, the demanders are most elderly folks who are either supposed to be models or at least advisers to their preys. To such folks, I say, seeds sown today shall surely be reaped in the morrow.

It’s really nothing but a blot on the landscape. No one seems to be doing anything or at least commenting on this menace. Prostitution, from every indication has attained a status that can best be described as, ‘the untouched vocation’.

My last word to the easy-to-identify and also to the discreet prostitutes is that in as much as no one seems to be bothered about their ugly profession, they must know that God had a special place for them in His heart when they were being created. The idea of trading their bodies thus has no moral justification.

By Abdul Fonti