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Veteran sex worker speaks
2008-07-12 Written by: No Author
You are considered a veteran after serving one profession for 25 years and over. So after 25 years as a sex worker, Murray (not her correct name) is claiming veteran status.
Now in her mid forties, <span style="font-weight: bold">she quickly knocked down the idea of legalising prostitution, saying such a move would remove the mystique and open up the market to too many undesirables.</span>
“Customers like their privacy and legalisation would open up the business to too much scrutiny,” she stated.
Murray operates mostly in the New Kingston area. She also takes private calls. She told the Sunday Herald that on a good night, her income could be in the region of $15,000 to $20,000. These ‘good nights’ are mostly during Christmas holidays and in the summer when there are lots of adventurous students around town. Regular clients, Murray said, are men in their 20s and 40s, from a wide-ranging socio economic background.
One serving of hot sex on an open pavement of office complexes between Haughton Avenue and Holborn Road in the uptown commercial district costs between $2,000 and $2,500. Clients who want a full night at a hotel will have to spend upwards of $5,000 if they can find girls willing to take up the offer.
Murray explains that not all ladies of the night are willing to sleep overnight, as this is a danger zone.
“It can be very dangerous to sleep with somebody who you don’t know. As for me, I don’t take those risks. I will spend time with you, but no sleeping.”
Mother of three grown children, two of whom are adults, Murray has had some weird experiences. Some clients, she said, want what is called ‘golden showers’. That is where a man allows the woman to stoop over him and urinate in his face. Others take it to another dimension where they request women to defecate on them.
Then there are cases of men who want threesome. They either come with their own woman and get another girl, or pay two girls off the street and take them to a hotel. There are clients who prefer oral sex, but Murray says she shies away from those acts because she is wary of “unknown mouths s..king my clit”.
Violence and the fear of disease are two features with which most of Murray’s colleagues are preoccupied. She has on three occasions faced gunmen. On one occasion she had just finished serving a client in the New Kingston area, when a gunman appeared and demanded her purse.
“After handing over my purse, I told him that I wanted my keys and cell phone. In a flash he opened the phone and tossed the chip in my direction, before fleeing the scene,” Murray recalled.
The women, Murray explains, are aware of the dangers. As a rule they don’t approach tinted cars and don’t go into vehicles with strangers. After many years on the street, “we know the modus operandi of potential kidnappers. They prowl around in the wee hours of the morning when few persons and police patrols are on the street.”
On one occasion, Murray had a near miss when gunmen tried kidnapping her on Haughton Avenue. She escaped into the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica premises.
Murray said she fears gunmen, but her greatest fear is for a knifeman. “Unless he has a silencer, explosions attract attention, but the knifeman is a deadly contender…one stab and that’s it,” she explained.
Murray said there are cases when clients, after being served, demand back their money.
“I have no problem giving them back their money in order to avoid conflict,” she said.
She recalled two cases where women were murdered. In one case the victim’s partner found out that she was involved in the sex trade and supposedly organised to kidnap and kill her. Her nude body was found in a kneeling position, with a single gunshot to the head. Her friend was killed two weeks after. Both women plied their trade along Devon Road.
The other real threat, Murray explains, is the fear of contracting a disease.
“For me, no sex without a condom; that is the rule and since I don’t do drugs, I feel safe,” she said.
2008-07-12 Written by: No Author
You are considered a veteran after serving one profession for 25 years and over. So after 25 years as a sex worker, Murray (not her correct name) is claiming veteran status.
Now in her mid forties, <span style="font-weight: bold">she quickly knocked down the idea of legalising prostitution, saying such a move would remove the mystique and open up the market to too many undesirables.</span>
“Customers like their privacy and legalisation would open up the business to too much scrutiny,” she stated.
Murray operates mostly in the New Kingston area. She also takes private calls. She told the Sunday Herald that on a good night, her income could be in the region of $15,000 to $20,000. These ‘good nights’ are mostly during Christmas holidays and in the summer when there are lots of adventurous students around town. Regular clients, Murray said, are men in their 20s and 40s, from a wide-ranging socio economic background.
One serving of hot sex on an open pavement of office complexes between Haughton Avenue and Holborn Road in the uptown commercial district costs between $2,000 and $2,500. Clients who want a full night at a hotel will have to spend upwards of $5,000 if they can find girls willing to take up the offer.
Murray explains that not all ladies of the night are willing to sleep overnight, as this is a danger zone.
“It can be very dangerous to sleep with somebody who you don’t know. As for me, I don’t take those risks. I will spend time with you, but no sleeping.”
Mother of three grown children, two of whom are adults, Murray has had some weird experiences. Some clients, she said, want what is called ‘golden showers’. That is where a man allows the woman to stoop over him and urinate in his face. Others take it to another dimension where they request women to defecate on them.
Then there are cases of men who want threesome. They either come with their own woman and get another girl, or pay two girls off the street and take them to a hotel. There are clients who prefer oral sex, but Murray says she shies away from those acts because she is wary of “unknown mouths s..king my clit”.
Violence and the fear of disease are two features with which most of Murray’s colleagues are preoccupied. She has on three occasions faced gunmen. On one occasion she had just finished serving a client in the New Kingston area, when a gunman appeared and demanded her purse.
“After handing over my purse, I told him that I wanted my keys and cell phone. In a flash he opened the phone and tossed the chip in my direction, before fleeing the scene,” Murray recalled.
The women, Murray explains, are aware of the dangers. As a rule they don’t approach tinted cars and don’t go into vehicles with strangers. After many years on the street, “we know the modus operandi of potential kidnappers. They prowl around in the wee hours of the morning when few persons and police patrols are on the street.”
On one occasion, Murray had a near miss when gunmen tried kidnapping her on Haughton Avenue. She escaped into the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica premises.
Murray said she fears gunmen, but her greatest fear is for a knifeman. “Unless he has a silencer, explosions attract attention, but the knifeman is a deadly contender…one stab and that’s it,” she explained.
Murray said there are cases when clients, after being served, demand back their money.
“I have no problem giving them back their money in order to avoid conflict,” she said.
She recalled two cases where women were murdered. In one case the victim’s partner found out that she was involved in the sex trade and supposedly organised to kidnap and kill her. Her nude body was found in a kneeling position, with a single gunshot to the head. Her friend was killed two weeks after. Both women plied their trade along Devon Road.
The other real threat, Murray explains, is the fear of contracting a disease.
“For me, no sex without a condom; that is the rule and since I don’t do drugs, I feel safe,” she said.