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Articulo - Juan de Castellanos
Articulo - Juan de Castellanos
TUNJA
MARZO DE 2020
Abstract
The life of sex workers is not the great life as many believe, much less if it had to bear the
scourge of conflict as it happened to Carmenza1, a sex worker who began the activity by
abandoning her partner in a state of pregnancy and without counting on the support and
endorsement of his family or friends to find another way. The decision made could not have
been the best, but with that work she managed to get her children ahead and without the
support of her husband, she can now lift her head with pride and say that it was worth it,
because without studies, illiterate, she It was going to be hard to find a job. He had to suffer a
lot in the development of his work, blows, humiliations and shows it with scars that were left
on his face as if leaving the mark of pain and effort that he had to endure to avoid fainting, all
for his children. Today she is proud that her children are working with decent jobs, but she
has the pain of seeing in her youngest son the reflection of her father and her life of liquor
and bad treatment with her children, as she lived with her biological father. He loves his
mother and visits her daily, despite the fact that he stopped talking to her for four months
when he found out that she was a prostitute, but her brothers also rejected her and made her
feel discriminated against for practicing prostitution as a way of life. He does not regret even
though he had many bad moments in his life.
1
Nombre ficticio para proteger su identidad.
LA INFANCIA MARCA LA VIDA Y TE DA ELEMENTOS, EL
INDIVIDUO DECIDE DESDE LA LIBERTAD COMO ACTUAR Y
COMO USAR SU CUERPO.
“La prostitución es la más horrible de las aflicciones producidas
por la distribución desigual de los bienes del mundo.”
Flora Tristan.
Se toma un aire, camina por el pasillo, pero se devuelve para la silla, quizá
disimulando esa lágrima que recorre su mejilla, porque la seca con disimulo y
mira de frente como desafiante, como demostrando que le ha servido responder
a esa serie de preguntas que le sacaron esa parte oscura de su vida y que le
atragantaba la garganta. Como ya ha liberado parte de ese pasado, mira como
esperando la otra pregunta.
Las apreciaciones generales que se pueden resaltar es que su hija menor fue
concebida, mientras ejercía el trabajo sexual, después de ser abandonada por el
padre de la criatura que llevaba en el vientre, por tanto, su hija no creció ni
compartió con su progenitor y esta etapa marca en ella el comienzo de su vida
como trabajadora sexual. Estos aspectos de la juventud y adolescencia de
Carmenza hacen comprender que la vida que escogió tiene relación con la falta
de protección, acompañamiento y orientación por parte de sus padres, sus
hermanos y demás familia, según su relato la mayor parte del tiempo compartía
con pares, lo que la llevó a recibir el consejo de una amiga para iniciarse como
trabajadora sexual.