Sex Workers

As human beings most of us experience at least some sort of lust or desire. Sometimes these desires are fulfilled by our partners and other times on our own. At times, however, many individuals choose to solicit a third party in fulfilling their sexual needs in the form of a sex worker. In the movie, “Monster”, Aileen Worhnin, played by Charlize Theron, is one of these sex workers, but has taken a different path involving her johns. This was a true story of a sex worker who after experiencing extreme amounts of abuse from men throughout her life decided to enact her revenge by killing her solicitors.

This movie was extremely graphic and showed many of the negative experiences that a sex worker may encounter in an unstructured work environment. I had mixed emotions about the murders that Aileen committed because as much as murder is never necessarily justified she had gone through so much torment throughout her life that I can at least somewhat understand her acting out against those who she assumed were out to hurt her. This is most apparent in her first murder because the man is raping her and she must defend herself, but I think that once