I couldn't but marvel as I read from the media last week that some fellow Batswana want formulation of laws to "protect" prostitutes. This and many other morally loose tendencies should send sober minds thinking and fearing for the future of our beloved country. To be candid, legalising commercial sex (rightly called prostitution) is tantamount to covering a pit by digging a more deadly and hazardous one and this is the more sure reason why we need to collectively frown at this monster that threatens to devour our already shaky moral value system.
The possible consequences of this in the marriage institution, the younger generation and in the spread of HIV/AIDS spells doom for our minute population except when we steer clear from this temptation. Already the marriage institution is very unstable with men (and women of course) dabbling in extra-marital affairs that almost invariably end up in divorce, with the younger generation plagued with the seemingly irrepressible drive to keep multiple partners, therefore with the legalisation of prostitution, lustful men who are unable to bridle themselves will feel more at ease to buy sex and sink deeper and deeper in the mire of sin and depravity. And which husband will feel comfortable to know that his wife is a commercial sex worker? And which of the reasonable fathers will encourage their daughters to go commercial in that regard? I doubt if there can be any in Africa, let alone in Botswana. Even if their families are as poor as ancient church rats! Yes, some people assert that some women are pushed into prostitution by poverty. Superficially, this looks a valid reason but ask yourself reader, which of the two sexes is in the majority in this trade? Your guess is as good as mine here. But is it true that the fairer sex is the only one subjected to poverty, hunger and unemployment in this nation? Who has the statistics and when was the research carried out? Then why are men not selling when both men and women feel the heat of unemployment in this diamond land. The womenfolk fail to realise that this is a ploy to taint them sensual sex objects and that ultimately people will turn around to despise their integrity not only as women, but as Batswana women.
