“If my husband had not been crippled, I would not have come out.” In bo Bai 10 yuan sex shop for 22 years Jane is not shy about their experience. Now 62 years old, she comes from a poor mountain village in Hubei Province. After marriage, her husband’s right arm is disabled and she loses the labor force. Besides, her three children are in famine. “When I first came, IT was to work in a restaurant with 1,000 yuan per month, but I lost it after two months in Bo Bai.” When she told the story, she sighed: “I couldn’t find a job, and I had no relatives or friends. I was wandering on the street for many days without any money. One day I fainted from hunger.” After she woke up, she learned that the owner of the 10 yuan store took her in and gave her food. “They didn’t force me. I couldn’t do it. I did this for 22 years.
In the first year, Jane sent home thousands of yuan. Her family was so happy that the child wrote her a letter asking “How are you, Mom?” She hid in her room, holding the letter and crying her heart out. When she returned home once a year, she dared not tell her husband and children the truth, only saying that she worked in Bo Liquor Store. “Fortunately, it is a remote place, and there are no villagers or acquaintances, so my family will not know.” “When business was good, WE charged 30 yuan at a time, but later we did less and less, 20 yuan, 10 yuan, and sometimes customers only gave 5 yuan. It’s really hard to make money these days.” Jane will be difficult to do business due to external reasons, but the hotel owner said to the reporter privately, Jane to face, do not want to admit that he is over 60, old and decays, fewer guests, “every time with (lubrication) oil, guests do not like, I can not speak. When asked if she planned to “give up” and go back home, she sighed and said, “If I go back, I have no money. My husband is a useless man, and my son and daughter are not enough for me. Unfortunately, MY legs often swell and ache now. Otherwise, I could do more.”
The sex workers in the 10 yuan shop are mostly middle-aged women with no education and low status. However, on the day of the interview, the reporter heard that there was a faint singing upstairs, and the lyrics sang: “Alas, life is rare to have a bosom friend, I would like to be a long wind around the battle flag…” The song echoed like gossamer in the dark corridor. It’s a popular song from the 1980s, from the movie Bosom Friend. The film tells the story of the early republic of China anti-Qing Zhi CAI e and a prostitute little impatiens love story. 10 yuan brothel has such a woman?
Reporters looking for the sound of the building, surprised that the female not only can sing, but also can paint, under the pen is yuanyang splashing, lotus and colorful butterflies fly. More than 40 years of incense from yunnan village, she lost parents since childhood, brought up by his grandfather grandmother, didn’t go to school, after 18 years of age to marry, thought that found a home, only to find the husband and the tactics and gambling, also easily beat her, she angry husband abandoned women, work out, locate in the bab, a five or six years, a year only send money to her daughter, he rarely go back. When asked why she didn’t divorce her husband, she replied, “That’s the way it is. Anyway, that devil (husband) is equal to or not.” The owner of the store privately boasts that Ah Xiang is “the treasure of the town”, saying that her business is the best and she has so many customers that she “doesn’t want to do it”, most of whom will pay her 20 or even 30 yuan. Perhaps this has something to do with her “cultural potential”.
Some people are forced into prostitution to make a living while others are forced into prostitution for pleasure. A woman’s life is so short but she is abused by a man for a long time. The oldest prostitutes are now in their twilight years.
