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Schaude's Nonfiction Page Sara Elizabeth Chaude Mrs. Laurencot Non-Fiction Essay **On The Streets **

By: Elaine Landau
Have you ever gone to New York, and catch glimpses of woman all dress up in fancy, elegant clothes, and wonder what they were waiting for? The book “__On The Streets,__” by Elaine Landau is about girls with horrendous stories about them being trick into selling their bodies for money which is today called prostitution. These awful, and tear jerking stories, not only bring you to tears, but also show you how cruel society really is today, and how thankful you should be if you have a caring family, and a good home to live in with protection. The book, __On The Streets,__ relates to society in various ways. Many people today are getting tricked into prostitution and it needs to stop now. The main boss, or what society may call him, “The pimp,” is the person that tricks young girls into believing that he cares for her, and that he will do anything to protect her. For a few weeks he feeds her food, gives her riches or nice, expensive clothes, and even eventually tells her that he loves her and wants to have her hand in marriage. Now I know what you may be thinking, why would a girl believe this when this person just met her a few weeks ago, and probably has a nice family waiting for her at home. This is the problem, the pimps aren’t stupid. They usually play their games on girls that look like they are run-aways, or they are depressed and need someone to act like they love them, which makes it easier for the pimp to get them into his business.

This sad story happen to a girl name Samantha, who was only sixteen at the time. She had just recently had an abortion and got kicked out of her house. Samantha was eating breakfast at a diner with the little money she had where a "Pimp" named Jerry spotted her. Of course the pimps need to be handsome and well dress so that they girls they try to lead in are attracted to them and will stay interested. They ask if they’re okay, and usually if it’s a girl with problems they will want to talk to anyone, and what Samantha did was just that. She began pouring out her heart to him in a matter of seconds which only made Jerry's next step easier, asking her if she needs a place to live for a bit. Of course, Samantha being pretty young to be on her own, accepted the offer and promise that she would pay back the expenses. Samantha stayed for one week that filled her life with happiness. Jerry bought her expensive clothing, dinner, everything she asked for she got. She thought she was in a happy dream that was never going to end. Jerry eventually had sex with her and at the end told her that he was in love with her. However, the very next day Jerry came home a changed man. He was angry, upset with how the day of gone. He told Samantha that he had lost a great deal of money and needed help. Samantha of course asked him, " Is there anything I can do to help? "(pg.15) That's when Jerry told her about selling her body, however he told her she only had to do it once and this is where the tricky came into play, because once Samantha brought home her first earnings, as predicted he told her it wasn't enough and that she would have to do it again.

How do you get out of prostitution? Well, the answer is that you really don't. Hardly anyone gets out of prostitution healthy, alive, or free. One way you can get out of prostitution is either you’re ill and can't sell your body anymore, or you have an STD. However, usually they will just drive you off and throw you on the sides of the street, which if you are very ill, won't survive. Another way is that if you try to attempt to run away, however, this is mostly unlikely because a pimp keeps a close eye on his girls and knows exactly where they are at any given time. The third way you can get out of prostitution is if you don’t owe Schaude Page 2 your pimp any more money and he let you go for free. This is highly rare though because usually the pimp keeps adding expenses onto your pay back price for condoms, clothes, etc. The last way you could try to get out of prostitution is if you have an officer as your, "man of the night." They will come in and show you the badge and ask you directly if you want to get out or if that you are getting held here against your will. Luckily this is what happened to Laura who was only thirteen years old. Her pimp grabbed her off the streets and told her that either she work for him or that she would get rape by him and then shot in the head. She of course, accepted to work for him, however, luckily her third client was an officer and got her out of there in time before she got ill or a sexual transitive disease.

Society isn't as nice as it use to be. There are people out there that trick young girls into believing that they’re in love just to make them their clients and live off the young girls earnings. Many girls today, are getting pulled into Prostitution against there will, because either they owe their pimp money, or they threaten to get killed if they don't accept the offer. Society needs to make an end to Prostitution because not only is it a disgusting way to make money, but it also spreads many STD's throughout the world. STD's is a sexual transitive disease that gets transfer during sex. Many prostitutes are in danger or getting this disease because they are having sexual contact with many men. Prostitution is a nasty thing, and it should be forbidden now.

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