Final Draft of Author's Note

My picture book is about Prostitution. I'm doing an allegory so that the little kid picture isn't about giving sex for money. That would be wrong.

Prostitution is called "The Game" by people who are in the business. People are in prostitution for different reasons. Most people are people who get kidnapped and forced into it. And some do it for the extra money.  Prostitution is very much harder than people might think. They get up at 5 am, and have to be out on the streets by 5:30. They stay out there the whole day, and at the time they are scheduled to come back, if they don't get the amount of money and the amount of people that their pimp told them to they get punished. After that whole day of "working" they, if they accomplish their job, would probably get a cheeseburger from McDonalds or something like that. They only get about 2 hours sleep.( "Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life in 'The Game' ") And to think that some places are trying to legalize it. (" Sex Work is Part of The Community.' ")

I've never actually witnessed prostitution in the act, but I have watched movies and read articles, and from what I saw and read these prostitutes have no win in this situation. They don't even get all the money they raise, they have to give it to their pimps. They get treated horribly, they don't get fed enough, and they don't get a lot of money (from what I've read). ("Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life in 'The Game' ") I personally think that the way people react to prostitution now is bad. They think that it is not bad and that it is a way to raise money and they should legalize it. ( "Sex Work is Part of The Community."). I got the idea for this story form Gabriel S. He helped come up with a story line and turning it into an allegory.

Really what I'm trying to get out is: don't give yourself away for something you think you need. If the the thing you need is making you lose yourself and making you feel trashy, what's the point?

Works Cited:

"Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life in "The Game"." NPR 6 December 2010: 7. Print.

"They Need Rescue, Not Regulation."  National Post  6 October 2010: A16. Print.

"Sex Work is Part of The Community." Metroland Media Group 8 October 2110: A11. Print.