{"id":82,"date":"2014-11-09T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T19:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2014-11-09T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T19:11:34","slug":"to-the-men","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/to-the-men\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As for the men out there, you\u2019re not helping. You\u2019re hurting.<br \/>\nYou\u2019re hurting us because you\u2019re making it so easy for us to stay on drugs. You\u2019re hurting us when you make us perform acts and you\u2019re nasty and you stink. We have to smell that because we want that drug so much that were willing to do anything for it. Sometimes its not even about drugs, sometimes its about paying your rent to keep a roof over head.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re driving along in your cars. You\u2019re thinking nobody sees you. But god sees you.  He knows who you are. And trust and believe me, someone else is going to inflict the pain that you inflict on that woman that you pick up in your car on to you whether you know it or not.<br \/>\nThere should be a law. The same law they have for women should also apply to men. How could the woman perform the act if the man doesn\u2019t stop and allow them to? They pick us up, we don\u2019t pick them up. But it\u2019s the woman who gets in trouble for it and not the man. He just gets a slap on the hand and then can go ahead on and pick up the next one.<\/p>\n<p>I have had cops pull me over so many times. Sometimes they pull over and say \u201cwhat are you doing here? Oh let me check and see if you have a warrant.\u201d And then if I have a warrant, they say  \u201cokay lets go because you were in the wrong area.\u201d They could see me getting in the car with a guy. And then the next thing you know, there are sirens ringing. They say, \u201cWhat\u2019s his name?  Do you know his name? If you don\u2019t know his name, why are you in the car with him?  Youre under arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It seems like they just wait. They wait. They sit back and they wait and they see you make a wrong move and that\u2019s it. The thing is that that there is no program out there for a woman who is going through prostitution. How many times do they arrest you and put you in a place where you can change your life? Where\u2019s the help? All of these buildings going up, there is not one that says: This is for women. We\u2019re going help them go to school. Were gonna help get some training for them. Were gonna help them turn their lives around because this is somebody\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>No. Instead, they arrest you and throw you in jail. Then what? You get out and you do the same thing because that\u2019s all you know. Thank god for those of us that got out and turned our lives around. But there\u2019s so many millions still out there. <\/p>\n<p>They sit on their tails over there in city hall and look out their windows. They look out at the park and they know its happening. Then they come out in front (of everyone) and say that they\u2019re doing something about the problem. But year after year after year, it is the same women on the street. The same people are sitting in that park. Some make it, some die. That\u2019s it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for the men out there, you\u2019re not helping. You\u2019re hurting. You\u2019re hurting us because you\u2019re making it so easy for us to stay on drugs. You\u2019re hurting us when you make us perform acts and you\u2019re nasty and you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/to-the-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}