The STOPLight

A job description

Editor's note: This tongue-in-cheek piece was written by a survivor of juvenile prostitution. It is meant to be educational, giving people a warning about some of the realities of prostitution. What she has written may not be true of every person who has been in prostitution.

Help Wanted -- Prostitute

Young girls wanted -- ages 12-25, with physical attributes.

Job duties: to perform sexual acts - being penetrated orally, anally, and vaginally with penises, fingers, fists, and objects, including but not limited to bottles, brushes, dildos, guns and/or animals. Don't worry. Being bound and gagged, tied with ropes and/or chains, burned with cigarettes or hung from beams or trees isn't unusual.

Your manager/pimp will be violent, greedy, hateful, non-caring, controlling bastard. You can't get away from your manager so don't try it.

You have no benefits. You get to spend no money on yourself. You spread your legs all day. You don' t have to spend money on clothes, and you might get bailed out of jail.

Job expenses: You pay for cabs, drugs, and your manager.

Job hazards: AIDS is a possibility. Possible body parts missing, scars, missing teeth, assaulted by customers and managers. Possible kidnapping, gang rape, getting shot, stabbed, losing hair, starved, forced into addiction. If any of the above happens, it's on you. Don't call the police, they can't help.

You will work in cheap motels, apartments, cars, parks, basements, hallways, alleys, dark places, crack houses, in a bar, upper class homes, bathrooms, anywhere possible. Does not matter as long as the job gets done.

Apply within the next 78 hours.

Warning: you probably will be tested out by manager and you will do what he wants.