Serving Tailors
The lives of these prostitutes are extremely tragic and judging from their appearance there are not many who are in a buoyant mood. Of course, there are some uneducated, gluttonous ones who corrupt themselves and get into this life, but from one perspective even those women deserve our pity as they lack sense. I mentioned earlier about prostitutes’ income; they are a little bit busy on Saturday and Sunday nights, but on other days sometimes they have a hard time just earning their boarding fees. Apparently not much money is left with them. Among women who came to gather in the caves in the beginning, there were some madams who may have had a big sum of savings but prostitutes did not even have enough costumes. They had to prepare costumes, but one or two are not sufficient. In the beginning white tailors used to come and take orders almost every day. Tailors receive a rush of small orders one after another, because they would not be able to make five or six outfits at once.
The price of a costume ranges from forty-five to seventy-five dollars. They pay twenty dollars by cash initially and keep paying the remaining monthly. However, no one wishes to have no money left; everyone uses their flesh as their capital and does wretched work in order to make some money. It should not be wrong to assume that they strike a deal with some bank and try to save even a little bit of money.
What is surprising is that there were many prostitute volunteers when the caves were launched here and their numbers are still increasing. Madams never have to worry about the shortage of prostitutes. In order to get rid of those who have bad habits of smoking opium or those strong-minded troublemakers, madams hold absolute power. However, I would also want to note that there are numerous unscrupulous ones among those volunteers who decide to enter this life for the first time without having any experience in sporting lives. This phenomenon cannot be treated simply as a small problem of Alexander’s prostitute caves, but we need to acutely consider Vancouver as being thrown into a vortex of a big social issue.