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Extract
from The Dynamics of Sex Work
GAD
Talk Bulletin, Vol3, May 2002
Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN)
May 2002
How does
society treat Sex work and workers?
- Society judges
sex workers who happen to be women more harshly than their male
clients. Even the law discriminates in against women – leaving
men often free to walk away unrepentant. One Sex worker lamented
in frustration, ‘If only I could reveal all the names of my clients
who are very important, respected men in the community. I wish
I was not so financially dependent on them’; those involved are
treated with disrespect and distrust.
- Sex workers
are treated with disrespect and distrust.
- Sex workers
are accused of destroying family life and destroying communities.
SW is now very complex as the numbers of female and male heterosexual
and homosexual sex workers have increased due to the harsh economic
situation as discussed above.
- Children
born of women and men involved in Sex work suffer a lot physiologically,
and financially. Most of their parents cannot make enough money
to send the children to school.
- Low educational
level of many women and their lack of training in employment-related
skills.
- Many relationships
between husbands and wives and between parents and children are
destructive rather than enabling, so a lot of families are breaking
up.
- Negative
traditions like ngozi, or the greed of some parents for
lobola, result in some young women trying to escape from
these unhappy marriages and they find that prostitution is the
only alternative.
- Young people
are no longer well prepared for adult life by older relatives
as they were in the past.
- Distorted
images of women in the media reduce women to sex objects that
are easily available for purchase to implied male buyers.
Clients
Clients
range from professionals, miners, and farm workers to long distance
truck drivers, who are normally separated from their wives and families
for extended periods of time.
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