DO YOU KNOW THAT ECONOMIC ISSUES CAN CAUSE AN INCREASE IN PROSTITUTION?
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According to Catherine Deneuve "Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had, in reality, no Woman will choose to do that. "
This I believed more when I met a young teenager on social media who did an advert on 18 hours of sex with a payment of #200,000.
I met Angel Promise when she was at age 15. She lived an undesirable life, sleeping from one man to another where she was paid something that was not enough to feed herself, not counting her family. They were wretched to the degree of sharing 3 cups of cassava flakes among 9 people.
She wanted to be educated and all her efforts to get work have proved abortive. She dropped out of secondary school in J. S. S. 2, where she left being the best student in her class.
She lost her mother to the cold hands of death when she was 5, her father has struggled to see that they feed well, but he lost his life in the process. One of her wayward friends introduced her to the act of prostitution which she followed blindly due to her urgent need for money to fund her bills and return to school.
She did this continually with a minimum of 10 men per day having sex with her with the payment of #10,000 daily. She saves #5000 to see that her goal is achieved.
At the end of the day, she contracted HIV/AIDS which remained a torn in her flesh
She realized some changes in her body system and decided to conduct a medical Checkup. The result showed a positive HIV/AIDS PATIENT.
Her life has been ruined since then, walking like a moron, and the next thing she thought of was a Facebook post of 18 hours of Sex with a #200,000 payment. She knew she couldn't care it, but spread it, and so she continued with her life.
The rate of economic increase in the cost of living and living is hard and high. Most young ladies don't desire a life of prostitution but live in it due to the economy and become Mothers at an early stage of their lives.
According to Taylor Francis, Online, 0.7% of the respondents joined the sex industry because of poverty and lack of other means of getting daily food.
7.2% of the sample had become pregnant while on the job and 3.1% of these pregnancies were terminated through induced abortion. Furthermore, 44.1% of the drug-addicted and low-income sex workers were found to be mostly involved in criminal activities while 60.3% of the sampled populations were victims of different types of violent sexual experiences.
In Nigeria, economic inflation according to the National Bureau of Statistics rose to about 21.82% in January 2023.
No matter how we try to curb prostitution, if there is no positive change in the economic Inflation and retardation, there will be a consistent increase in the number of Prostitutes in Nigeria.
There are a good number of women with the burden of ensuring the youth and teenage girls don't miss it as they aspire for more of their growth and development in life. The more their effort, the less their productivity causes the cost of survival in Nigeria is demanding and high tasking.
The more we curb Economic instability, the lesser the rate of Prostitution.
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