Que deus te elimine ✨

See-Through Glass Skeleton By: Melli Ink (2007)

“I attended the funeral today of a woman I worked the red-light district with back in the early nineties. She was a good friend of mine. We’d been in residential care together and I knew her from when I was fourteen years old. We don’t have an official cause of death yet and won’t until the return of the toxicology report. She was thirty-nine. What angers me the most is that, whatever they write on her death cert, it will not be true. They’ll say it was heroin, or cocaine, or whatever other substance or combination of substances could be found in her system but I know it was none of those things. I know that because I remember the person she was before prostitution and the damage it did her, and drug addiction was just a by-product of that. She’d never taken a drug in her life before prostitution. So yeah, the doctors will break down the chemicals found in her system and their verdict will en up on her death cert, but when the coroner authenticates the cause of death and writes ‘accidental’ or ‘misadventure’ or ‘toxic poisoning’, I will know that is not true. How many women have died now, I wonder, because of a form of compensated sexual abuse that caused myriad forms of injury which initiated a chain of events that led directly to their deaths? It is time the coroners of the world started recording ‘death by prostitution’. We need a new category here.”