by Rowan » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:50 pm
The trouble is once the drugs have got hold of someone, it takes over their life, their personality, their conscience - everything. You have young women from average homes, who would never under any other circumstances be frced to sell their bodies to keep them in drugs - they can't just stop taking them - they don't think they can ever get off them...and public opinion stigmatises them as losers.
The treatment for getting off drugs is also addictive - methadone is twice or more as addictive as heroin. It is on prescription but it rots their teeth and weakens their bones, they are skinny, unhealthy skins and bodies.
If there was not a demand for it, there wouldn't be prostitution but far better for them to be in a house where their health could be monitored than out in the streets as prey for any evil murderer who takes away any hope of ever recovering from a drug addiction.
My answer is, prosecute the drug barons who get the stuff into the country and who recruit people who are already well into a drug addiction to sell to others - jail them for life - take away their fat bank accounts. We will always have prostitutes as long as we have men to use them, but we can stop some women going into what is, the oldest profession.
Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.
Gaelic Proverb
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.