Effort To Convince Sex Workers To "Go Straight"?

CBCP has an article up talking about a new effort to "teach" kids here in Cagayan De Oro not to go into the sex trade.

Good idea: Convince girls that it is somehow better to slave away in a restaurant for 60 hours per week for 1,000 pisos than to sit for 15 hours per week in front of a webcam with a sex toy for 4,000 pisos.

Good luck with that.

Not until The Philippines gives women a tool more powerful than sex to lift themselves out of poverty — and not until the result of having that tool is something better than a dollar-a-day shit job in the mall — this country can waste all the hot air on nostrums like this as it wants: it won't do a bit of good.

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UPDATE:

And if you ever needed any more evidence that I'm right on the mark with what I say, check out this piece of news:

The 15 "cybersex women" who bolted from a government facility the other day have pressed charges against the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the social welfare department.

They said hauled off from an establishment in Kauswagan last April 23 without an arrest warrant. They also alleged that they were pressured into signing a document against two Swedes. They said NBI agents told them they would be jailed for 20 years if they did not cooperate."

Yes folks, these are the women... well, 15 out of 18 out them at least... who Annabelle Ricalde claims were "rescued" from the evil Swedes.

As noted in the comments section of that link by Dick Mellon, some of the girls are even making compassionate visits to the Swedes in jail... while at the same time pressing charges against the people who "rescued" them.

Yeah: These girls are definitely going to be receptive to the idea of giving up their high-paying online sex gig because some Filipina feminist tells them to.

Well, fortunately, some of these girls have found new employment at other cybersex dens in the city. Unfortunately, I'm sure that the know-nothing, brain-dead, do-gooder feminists of CDO — who assuredly don't face the problem of poverty and lack of education that the "cybersex" girls do — will ensure that these girls are soon once again in jail, threatened, and unemployed in short order. Let justice be done, eh?