If you had the opportunity to help someone avoid becoming a prostitute would you do it?

i have a female friend that I’ve known for 3 months.

She’s 21, single mom, vz migrant who is living without a passport in Ecuador.

She has been selling gum as a street vendor for 7 months. She has been approached by a lady in her apartment building to try becoming a stripper. That is a entry-level to becoming a prostitute. I happen to know that the lowest an escort charges for oral is 50$. I am considering leveraging my knowledge of this to convince her to not do it—- but I don’t want to become her reason for saying no. She has said over and over she will never do this. But her son got sick and now she’s missing work. I recommended she share an apt with a friend and she’s doing that now.

She shared with me that she feels terrible but she’s considering it.

I feel like a nat geo videographer. You can either be silent and watch the little antelope get eaten by the alligator or go over there and protect the antelope and ruin your documentary.

What would YOU do?

 

I suggested this. She went to Red Cross clinic to get her son looked at. They saw her but wouldn’t give her son any medicines. What organization do you think would work ?

 

It often doesn’t solve the financial problem. But desperate mothers are told that it will.

 

This is a real person. She doesn't live in Finland.

 

Update to this thread. I decided to help her by showing her the math. No guilt trip. No shame necessary. Just math.

Trigger warning.

I explained in 3rd grade language— how many blowjobs it would take to pay her rent. How many orgasms it would take to cover her costs with the brothel and how much she would have left over. Etc.

If a bj is 50; and every customer can negotiate that with the girl on the price, how much of this would you be able to keep? Around 30%.

How low can you go?

She is still breastfeeding. The spread of herpes could be passed to her 18 month old son.

In the end she decided to not do it. She said it was the funny way I described it that made her reconsider.
I offered to equal the “pay advance” the female pimp paid her. She didn’t need that. She gave it all back. I told her I’d rather her go back to Venezuela than become a prostitute with her infant son at home.

I am afraid for all the people I meet in my travels that this is so commonplace. Migrant mothers are conscripted into sex work only to be abused by sex addicts who objectify them and online porn addicts who slander them for doing what all porn users need to see in order to bust a nut.

Somewhere in this chain of insanity is the solution to my own addiction-free, solution-oriented philosophy.