The Other Creatures
Imagine yourself being engaged in snatching a bone from a dog, who has been starving and fainting from hunger for most of his life. What will be his spontaneous reaction? He will attack you as if you have put your foot on his ailing tail. He will tweeze your muscles and try to reap what you have done to him. That is what happens when men are thrashed and assaulted, they vent their frustration on the commonly known creatures known as ‘Prostitutes’.
These creatures are known as “Tawaif” in our Urdu. Urdu which has a pertinent word for the one who sell their bodies but, it has no swear word for those barbarous men, who knock at their door so much so that they don’t have to close those doors. This is not my lamentation from Urdu, but it is of Saddat Hassan Manto actually. It should have a word for the other hand because it takes Two to Tango.
Prostitution is not a chosen vocation it is rather an enforced field to work within. A woman doesn’t adopt this with her assent, but it is her compulsion to step her feet into this cirque. The society is to be blamed for this, it allows a woman to grow as a prostitute, but it does not want her to ride a Horse Cart for her living. Our society has adopted a ‘One Eye Rule’. It degrades a prostitute but adopts a deaf ear policy for the ones who use them as a flesh time and again in order to quench their thirst. One should never forget that not every woman is a Vaishya, but that every Vaishya is a woman.
Writer: Ayaz Abro
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