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To Regulate Prostitution, Iran
Ponders Brothels TEHRAN, Aug. 27 — She identifies herself as Susan. At 26 she is slender and graceful, and her long hair is pulled back, giving her face with its hazel eyes and round cheeks an air of innocence. She does not at all look like a prostitute. "This is the only job I know," she said as she rolled up her sleeve to show the scars on her arm from beatings by her heroin-addicted husband, who forced her onto the streets at 16 to help support his habit. She left him years ago, but she said she continued to sell her body to pay for the private school fees of her 10-year-old son. "I'll do anything to give him a different life," she said. It is because of women like Susan that a conservative newspaper, Afarinesh, recently reported that two government agencies, which were not identified, had proposed legalizing brothels, under the name of "chastity houses," as a way of bringing prostitution under control. (more)
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