Night Women

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Night Women
Night women or women of the night are those women who sell their bodies for the exchange of money or some other type of commodity but mostly for money. In most countries women and in some cases men who partake in such activities are referred to as “Whores”, “Harlots”, “Prostitutes”, and in more civilized societies “Sex Workers”.
Prostitution has been in practice from the biblical ages to the modern times. Harlots where mainly identified from their mode of dressing some cover their faces with a veil (Sanger 32) while most wear provocative clothing such as short skirts or dresses with a reviling top. This helped them get many clients as the cover of night dawned.
The men and women who engage in these activities usually have different reasons so as to justify why they do this dirty deed which is considered to many as a horrible and un-Godly behavior. The bible refers to the human body as “The temple of God” (1st Corinthians 6:19) this means that everybody regardless of what may cause one to think in the line of prostitution should refer to the bible and turn from their thoughts to more positive actions. With this in mind most clients who visit these ladies at night do so in secrecy as they fear to be shunned by the society if they are discovered.
Some of the reasons for participating in this act are mostly due to poverty while to some it is due to greed for more money. Prostitution is a high income earner to those taking part in it. This is one of the main reasons why people find it so hard to leave the industry and it is why it is illegal in most countries, since the exchange of cash cannot be taxed and it may lead to contraction of many diseases which in the long run comes back to cost the government in the form of medical expenses and medication and employment.
Edwidge Danticat’s “Krik? Krak!”, depicts a lady who is selling her body at...