Why Prostitutes do not Leave

It's easy to be someone on the outside of a situation to tell someone what to do but it is so much more difficult to do it. While reading the book, I'm thinking, 'Leave! Don't go back! You are already gone! All you need to do is to build another life.' Then I remembered that Somaly is only a teenager who has little skill and little knowledge and she repeatedly goes back to the horrible people she was with because she has nowhere else to go. She tried to go, but her trust in the people of the outside world disappeared when she found they were like all the other abusive people she knew except they did not care for her because she did not cost them money.

All Somaly needed was a little boost. Dietrich and then Pierre were her boosts that showed her how to get a better, more respected life. From her experience, Somaly helps these girls how she was helped: with money, care, and encouragement. I really like that she tells the girls that there is a fulfilling life outside the brothel. If you think about it, these girls are terrified to leave because they think they will be tracked down and killed, they are sick and tired so they cannot leave, and they are so young that they have not lived much of a life besides the brothels. Also, making the prostitutes addicted to drugs is a common way to make them stay. They drugs not only make them weak and less resistant, it also makes them want to stay to get their drugs.

Story (interesting enough to share): I watched a video in my Contemporary Issues class of a girl who went out with this hot guy from her new high school. He raped her and then threatened to show her catholic family the video of the rape. Then he made her come out every night to be raped and sodomized until dawn. They later threatened that if she did not come, they would kill her family. One night she left the place where she was raped and went to a diner where a woman asked her if she needed help. The girl said that she did and they went to the police. Unfortunately, when her family found out, they practically disowned her. Then, she did not go to the place one night and they killed her dog.

I thought this was a good example of a girl having a tough time getting out of her situation. I wish I could find the video.

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