More women needing cash go from jobless to topless

[Tirong-say]

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Misinterpretation of practicality,
actually it's ambition and reaching without the proper means that drives them to become such.
forgetting that what they place at stake is more valuable than what they would ought to earn.

[peewee_toot]

^^+100. very well said sir...

[haroldjizdeortega]

aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhyyyyyy!!!! i like this job!!! i could use the experience. bonggaa!!!

[19blackpanther75]

jobless to topless? nice women...hahahaha

[Clifford_2008]

shortcut to success.

[Hammer_and_Sickle]

Misinterpretation of practicality,
actually it's ambition and reaching without the proper means that drives them to become such.
forgetting that what they place at stake is more valuable than what they would ought to earn.

bitaw noh?sakto kaayo bai, mao ra jud ilang tan-aw na makalingkawas sila sa kalisod

[masakiton]

kinahanglan ta ug kwarta para ma buhi
kitang tanan lawas ang atong puhonan.. depende ra usa part sa lawas ug unsaon ug gamit

[peewee_toot]

dako2x baya jd silag ma kwarta ani...

[dexlimp]

dako jud labi na sa adult film industry..mga minyo mn gani ang ubang actors o actress sa ana na industry..naa sad uban mag minyo sa co-p**nstars..

[Rance]

Twenty-year-old Sophia looks like a typical colegiala who has a dream of becoming a respected lawyer someday.

Barely 5-foot tall, she keeps a low profile at the Catholic-run school in Cebu City, where she is a freshman student, as she doesn’t want to call anybody’s attention to herself.

It is because she keeps a secret from her classmates: She sells her flesh to pay her school bills.

Sofia works as a GRO (guest relations officer) in an elite night club and offers sexual services to men, mostly foreigners.

“I don’t care if I’m a prostitute. I will finish my studies no matter what,” she said.

Sofia’s case is not isolated. According to Julius Bungcaras, head of the International Justice Mission (IJM) Cebu’s Community Mobilization for Churches and Students, 10-15 percent of every 1,000 students (10 out of 100) resort to prostitution.

The IJM is a human rights organization that rescues victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression.

Bungcaras said that based on the cases he had handled, students were prostituted not only because they needed to pay the tuition. Other reasons include financial independence, materialism and peer pressure where students feel the need to have what their friends have, he said.

Sofia’s story

Sofia, who hails from Negros Oriental, was left to the care of her aunt when she was 12 years old after her father died and her mother abandoned her.

After graduating from high school, the 16-year-old lass moved from Negros Oriental to Cebu to pursue a college degree. Little did she know that school fees in Cebu were expensive.

For three years, she did odd jobs—from housemaid to salesgirl—so she could save enough money for her tuition. But the pay was not enough to even cover her basic needs.

She quit being a salesgirl and had been unemployed for a while. In April last year, a friend, who worked as a GRO, told her that their night club was looking for another GRO. Since work was hard to come by for a high school graduate, she took it.

“I didn’t like it but I had no choice,” Sofia cried.

The pay was good though, and that made her decide to stay in the business. Since then, she had been to nine different clubs, where the tips ranged from P1,000 to P8,000 from her permanent “guests.”

‘Private’ services

“We call our clients guests. A gathering of GROs is called a show-up. I am one of those. Then the guests would choose who among the GROs they like,” she said in Cebuano.

Aside from tips, she receives a fixed pay of P120 per hour from the club and gets not less than P1,000 per customer for “private” services.

Sofia goes to school in the morning because her work starts from

7 p.m. and ends at 4 a.m.

Her income allows her to buy food, as well as pay for her board and lodging, and other school fees. She has extra money to send to her aunt in Negros Oriental, who doesn’t have a clue on how she earns a living.

Sofia said she also spent on a new cellular phone, clothes and even shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) to keep her up all night.

Aside from other clients, Sofia is being maintained by her “boyfriend”—a 61-year-old Norwegian who paid her tuition this year.

Sexually transmitted diseases, including the incurable Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), don’t scare her. She is more afraid of getting killed by her customers without any witnesses inside the hotel than dying of AIDS.

What matters to her is to finish her studies so she could become a top lawyer and command the respect she has always wanted.

The lure of fast bucks is one of the factors some student-*** workers quit school and make prostitution a career path.

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