prayer request - prostitution in America

This post is quite long, read it when you have time and want to know about this issue more. And of course don't delete this post, I spent an amount of time wrote it.

 I just watched the ABC's show 20/20 back in March.

While prostitution is a sin, no question about it, we also need to give those prostitutes a way out. This problem may not as simple as people think to just condemn the ladies (and a few men).

Those ladies go down to this road for all kind of reasons. Some want fast money with short working hours, but some others do need the money to pay their bills, even to feel their baby.

And, not suprisingly, most of those ladies have been (sexually) abuse when they was young, raped or incested or molested. And like the lady inside said, incest is the bootcamp for prosititution.

Also, those digusting pimps give the ladies a false concept of what is love, that being a prosititue means they can be loved. And that's how these pimps make money out of it. Not to mention these pimps will teach the ladies to do drugs so they can be controls. So those ladies not only hooked on prostitution, but also addicted to drugs, not to mention face the risk of violence. I don't know about you, but I do hope that God will pour His judgement onto these pimps.

See, any kind of sin, including sexual sin, never goes away satified like after you finished your happy meal in McDonalds. When you think you can make it to go away by continue to feed it, instead it will only go stronger and stronger. Eventually it will be so strong that it will eventually eat you up alive, literally. When sin gets to extreme, it lead people to their death.

Many of these ladies also come from broken home or foster home, which rarely have real family love that kids and teens needed. Like the book "Not the Way It's Supposed to Be : A Breviary of Sin" said, one of the characteristics of sin is, not only it grows, it also passes, from generation to generation, and it goes on and on and on.

Of course, there are also those who do prostitution because of the money needed for drugs they got in. But the point I observed is, unless those who do it for fast money, for the most of them you can see their heart is teared inside. And the host interview them and ask relatively harder question, tears come out from their eyes. "At best" they may seem "glory" outside, but they know well that they can't fool themselves. They know this is wrong, and definitely not what they wanted, but for whatever reason they can't get out of this mess.They do have talent to do what they wanted, art, dance, nurse, othre professions.

While those group and other kinds of therapies may help to a degree, we all know only by the power of God, and the gospel of Jesus Christ can give these ladies a true way out and get rip of all the shame from what they did.

A law that instead of punish one who sell sex, goes punish one who buy sex  (like in Europe) may help a bit. Note that I do object prostitution legalization. Again, don't feed the sin, it will only grow bigger. Jesus' blood is only answer.

I myself can't help those ladies much, so I want to invite those who cares to pray about this issue, that churches can reach those who get on this road.

Last, this subject is worth to research more from theological perspective, and learn how to deal with it by using the gospel.