Pinoy hookers are classy; speak English well


In the 80s, when I covered the police beat, I’d routinely join the police in raiding prostitution houses locally known as casa, and other clubs and motels, which served as fronts for prostitution. And even before these prostitutes and their pimps could be taken to the police headquarters, they would beg us to spare and release them, telling us “ we are poor, we need money to support our families and our survival depends on our earnings”

As we knew before, these prostitutes didn’t have much choice and that they had been forced into this flesh trade by force of circumstances: extreme poverty, loss of jobs, and lack of education, marital breakdown etcetera.

Prostitution was the only way they could feed their families—it was really a matter of survival. And the sad part of these police operations, after a few hours they had been picked up, they were eventually released and went back to their regular routine--plying their trade. So this vicious arrest-then-release cycle was just a normal life for these people engaged in the prostitution.

However, I’ve learned lately that in our country, the prostitution landscape is rapidly changing: some women have become prostitutes by choice.

A few months ago, I had a tete-a-tete with a Filipino entrepreneur whose business affords him to frequently visit the Philippines .He asked me not to identify him for obvious reason; while we were talking, I was jotting some notes, so now here is his story:

Being a frequent traveler, I have been to various places and I’ve observed that prostitution now has gone more professional, meaning that women prostitutes are elegant, well-educated and some are even enrolled in some well-known universities.

A recent trip to Manila, I was billeted to one of the posh hotels in Makati. Since it was quite humid outside, I decided to while away my time staying in the hotel. At about 8 p.m. while I was to step out the hotel, a guy approached me asking me if I wanted to have some good time—well when I said yes, he accompanied me to nearby condominium where I found beautiful ladies.

I took one of them; well my intention was just to ask her to accompany me in a meeting the following day and right there I made an arrangement with her about the scheduled meeting. I was really surprised that aside from being beautiful, tall and sexy—by all standards she would pass off as one of the professionals working the Makati area.

Later I learned that she was 23 years old, and taking up law in one of the top universities in Manila. When I interviewed her, she handed me her calling card, telling me that every time I’d be in the Philippines and if I’d like her services—all I have to do is call her. And I‘ve learned that she is just one of the group of 20 escorts ladies who mostly belong to some well-off families.

She would not demand outright money, but what she would just ask me was a little money for her tuition and some allowance. Well, when I attended the meeting the following day, with the young lady in tow, some of my colleagues thought that she was my secretary, and someone even asked me if I wouldn’t take her to be an employee of our newly created company and then he would hire her.

However, when she was offered the office position, she politely declined telling us the she was committed to finish her law course. I could not imagine this young woman engaging in this kind of work and still she has this strong-willed determination to finish her course. She was really well focused on her ambition to finish her education and later quit prostitution. I’ve learned that some of them are part-time girlfriends politicians, and rich businessmen. In all my meetings, I had brought three beautiful ladies from the escort services—all of them spoke good English.

Well, we know that times have changed. With or without poverty, prostitution is here to stay; it would even advance from bad to worse. There’s no way by which we could stop the world’s deteriorating condition today.

The Bible has prophesied that”…. in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderer, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power. . (2 Timothy 3:1-5).

But this is our hope, in Psalms 37:9-10, it says, “ For the evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more….”(New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures)