An unlicensed and illegal sex trade is rampant in doorways and on street corners elsewhere in Geylang, at the notorious Orchard Towers complex known as "Four Floors of Whores" on one of Singapore's glitziest shopping streets, in numerous massage parlors and in explicit online ads. This is according to the Young Communist League of South Africa, which said in a statement issued on Monday, that an increase in street prostitution, especially involving girls and young women, had been noted.
The provincial spokesman of the YCLSA, Lebogang Olyn, said that, following interaction with a number of these women in areas such as Kimberley, Colesburg, De Aar, Barkly West and other areas in the Province, it emerged that young people were turning to prostitution in order to make a living as many of them came from child-headed homes or were single parents with no education.
Olyn added that prostitutes were being harassed by the police, which served as a reminder of the illegality of their offences, as well as the immoral and unethical nature and character of prostitution, and the fact that they should find other forms of generating an income.
He added that they were also victims of petty crimes because the perception was that they have money on them. Olyn pointed out that the prostitutes were also being given drugs as a means for them to forget the miseries of their trade and the abuse at the hands of their owners and their customers. They cannot run to the police because they believe that their crime of being prostitutes is greater than that of rape and abuse.
And thus, the only thing they can turn to is a night of booze and drugs. Olyn added that the fact that prostitution was illegal generated new forms of corruption and abuse because those who prostituted their bodies for income, knew that they could not find any other home in the law.
