Mary was brought to a hotel. She was scared and started to cry that the customer did not touch her
but still paid her P3,000.00. Her next customer was a foreigner. It was her first time to engage in sexual
activity, and the costumer gave her P5,000.00. Mary gave P1,000.00 pesos to her pimp.
At the age of 15 year old, Jenny decided to run away from home since her parents cannot support her
needs and sometimes her father would beat her when he got drunk. She stays at her friends in
Ecoland, and at night, her friend would bring her to Bonguyan (a known place for drinking and
prostitution). She saw her friend kissed and hugged men who in turn would give her money worth
P100.00. Later that night her friend sells her to a Japanese man who is 50 year old. Her friend convinces
her to go with the Japanese man since they need money. After that night, Jereca engage to
prostitution and her friend would seek customer for her.
In March 2017, while Shine was with her friends, they would go around looking for money to buy
things they needed. One time her friend brought her to a hotel and instructed her to enter a room
where a man was waiting. An Indian-looking man sexually abused Shine and gave her money. She was
crying at that time and was shocked by her experience. After the said incident, Shine was so angry
with her friends. She did not go home for two days. A week after, Shine found herself in prostitution
to buy her own needs and food for her family. She also felt sexually used, a similar sense of feeling
articulated by Andi.
Ara was initially treated well by a bar owner in Tibal-og, Davao del Norte. Few weeks later, she is
treated the same as those women who have been working in the bar for years. She was pimped every
time there’s a customer wanting to have sex with sex. An amount of P300.00 will be paid to the
management for every three hours (short-time) and an additional payment for time extension. They
should also convince the customers to use the lodging house owned by Luz at least once or twice a
week as requisite before they are allowed to have an outside transaction with their customers. Every
“outing” (external transaction) requested by customers was being monitored by the management.
Every outing and per transaction, the customer has to pay the management an amount ranging from
P200.00 to P500.00 pesos.
Sharon, 18 years old at the time of the interviewed has been in prostitution for four years. She and
two of her friends were recruited to travel all the way to General Santos City when she was 16 years
old. She was told that work was waiting for her there. Without her knowledge that she will be working
in a bar.
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