About prostitution in China

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According to Monica, all prostitutes in New Zealand have been leading a happy and enjoyable life. They have chosen the profession voluntarily, without any outside pressure. They haven’t done that out of poverty, which is amazing.

Things are a lot different from what is happening in China. The prostitutes have come from these sources: 1. those who are pretty. They want to make profits on the primitive capital provided by their parents. 2. Those who are afraid of hard work. They look on it (prostitution) as an easier way to make more money with the least cost of physical exertion. 3. Those that have been lured by the luxurious lifestyle and so avid for it; however they can find no other means to achieve it. 4. Those that have been dumped in their life and therefore lost faith in life. They have taken the most degenerated way of life in others’ eyes, to flirt with life. 5. Those that have come from impoverished family. They have no other way to provide for their families except this one. 6. Those that have been forced by gangsters of any kind to become prostitutes.

The first four sources have made up the majority of the prostitutes. Undeniably most of the prostitutes are pretty and have good figures. They have regarded this as their divine gift from god and want to make the fullest use of it. So they take to prostitution, which is, needless to say, the fastest way to amass wealth with the least cost of labor. What is more, this kind of job needs very little training. So far as they are pretty and are able to spread their legs, everything is ok. I have great sympathy for those who are forced to be prostitutes by poverty. They are not doing it out of willingness. They have be made to so since otherwise they would have no way to for their families or themselves to survive. Most of them in the last case have been so destitute that they have received very little, if not at all, education.

What Monica said is true that prostitution is illegal in China. It is prevalently regarded as a vicious phenomenon of our society. The prostitutes need not to pay the taxes, therefore they are not protected by law. Some of them are even threatened or swindled by some of the corrupt policeman, and live a tragic life. They have become, in some hypocritical people’s eyes, a tumor of the society.

There is still no denying that where there is widespread prostitution, there will be affluent economy. The close link between these two has in a way, changed a lot of the government officials’ opinion on it and therefore they have showed more patience and tolerance to it.

Before the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, prostitution was legal in China. It is only after the liberation that it has been eliminated. The appearance and development of it has been closely together with the development of our national economy. It must be what has been advocated by the senior leader of China, Deng Xiaoping, “the flies and mosquitoes imported from the western world together with the better and most effective ways of developing the economy.”

Without the protection of the law, a lot of the prostitutes have been abused, and even killed. They daren’t show their true identity, since prostitution is legal. They have to take refuge in the corners of the society. In such cases no one is sure of their security. Prostitutes in New Zealand are living in the paradise, making more money in a legal and easy way.

As to Monica’s view that whenever she touches upon prostitution, she receives more attention, I want to say that we have undergone so long a period of ancient and modern feudalistic obscurity on sex. No one has any courage to admit that he is interested in it. Whenever we touch upon it we will be instantly intimidated into submission to silence. Even now we are not free to speak it out. On line we are safe. So it is natural we are interested in it, with our moral masks off.

I am far from being an expert on prostitution. What I show here is my personal observations and views. Prostitution is not something to be eliminated, rooted out easily. It is the close accompaniment of the development of our national economy.