Prostitution?! No Thanks!

Millions of families across the nation of the United States teach their daughters to not go anywhere near prostitution. Why? Well... it's sick. You're basically encourging snotty men who likes to blow all their money away. I've seen movies and read books about women who sell their soul or bribe men with unnecessary sexuality activity to get something they need. It's disgusting, and the whole issue with prostitution sickens me. But the story, Ms. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw, has an interesting perspective on prostitution.


It's a story about a women, Mrs. Kitty Warner, who was very pretty when she was young. It was taken place at time where it was hard to get decent jobs. Kitty knew that she would not make a lot of money mopping floors and bathrooms and a proper education. But Kitty knew that she was very pretty,  and she uses that opportunity to prostitute herself. Did Mrs. Warner make a lot of money doing this terrible thing? Yes! She did. Now the lesson wasn't to prostitue yourself so you can get a lot of money, it was to make sacrifices. When Mrs. Warner started to get older, she had a child, Vivie.


 Vive is a smart, basic everyday girl who can get proper education. How did she get a proper education? Mrs. Warren's sacrifice was to use prostitution. She got a lot of money doing that becuase she was so pretty, and then life wouldn't be so hard for Vivie. When Vivie hears the story, she freaks out and becomes disgusted with her mother, until she realizes that she did it for a reason. 


This story didn't make me think, "Hmm... prosititution is awful, but sometimes, it can come in handy!" No, it made me think how people make sacrifices in their past so they can make the future a better place for them. It also taught me to be grateful to people who make sacrifices for their own good. Sacrificing is a very strong idea, and writing a story about how a character gives up their own relationship experience by using prostitution is even stronger. That is why Mrs. Warren's Profession was such a strong, emotional, and heartbreaking story.