Prostitutes Disappear into Morning Fog

It might have been an anathema, unsightly cityscapes across the nation. So by an evident dictate of moralistic President Roh Moo Hyun, the ruling Uri Party has passed the Anti-Prostitution Act and launched into crackdowns on prostitutes and their brothels.


Ladies of the street, shivering with an early morning chill of late autumn and apprehension over an uncertain future, dispersed for the moment like frightened creatures. But after a little while, hesitating what to do and how to say, they got together and started forming an association or two. (I hit the road for my sick leave of a short duration. I find the city shrouded in morning fog. In an hour or two the fog will evaporate and the city will make its reappearance.)


Can the state ban the trade? Is the government so morally clean that it could ask doers of the trade its undoing? Isn't it the reality that society people trade sex for positions and power? And a greater amount of money, of course that could be figured out not by thumb counting? Isn't it a mode of life that some weaker sexes of the lower social ladder trade their flesh for a little sum of bank notes and vice versa?