Commercial Sex Workers Speak Up On Their Human Rights

She spoke bravely and without fear declaring on national TV that she was a sex worker
who demanded her rights.This was my first time to see such an interview and obviously i was interested to hear her story.The reason she chose to omit the word commercial in her title is she claims sex is work just like any other.If you you are a lawyer you don't refer to yourself as a commercial lawyer.Same to a doctor and so on and so forth.She was accompanied to the studio by Zawadi Nyong'o,an independent consultant and writer who spoke passionately about her cause,fighting for the rights of prostitutes.
Police harassment,unnecessary arrests and violence meted out by the very clients who have sex with them is just but among the many ills that a sex worker has to go through on a normal day.A sex worker who goes through a rape ordeal is never taken seriously when she reports to the authorities.The police assume that since she is in the sex business,she deserves to be raped!can you imagine that?
Some clients demand to have unprotected sex with the sex workers thus exposing them to HIV and AIDS.According to Zawadi Nyongo sex work or prostitution is just work like any other and prostitutes should not be victimized and stigmatized by society.Prostitution is the oldest profession.It has been there since the beginning and shall always be there with us.None of the said sex workers chose to be involved in the business but according to Zawadi,life's circumstances forces most girls to do it.Faced with a choice of either being a domestic worker earning a paltry fifteen hundred shillings a month and being a prostitute,most opt for the more lucrative deal.
The interviewer tried to go the morality way but was quickly silenced by the fact that even Jesus Himself treated a prostitute with compassion.'If we begin to discuss the issue of human rights for the prostitutes on a morals point of view,then we will not address the pertinent issues by the end of the day'said Zawadi
on the question of morality.
The sex worker said that it is always a two way business and that no man is ever forced to have sex with a prostitute.
Prostitutes are not aliens from planet mars.They are our sisters,our cousins,aunts mothers and daughters.Treat them with the respect they deserve as human beings.The bible tells us to judge not so as not to be judged.Jesus faced by a crowd baying for the blood of a prostitute,bent down,scribbled on the ground and invited the first person who had never sinned to throw the first stone.They left,starting from the oldest to the youngest.
Well,my point of view is that lets change the way we look at the sex workers and treat the sisters nicely.