GIRLS JUST WANNA PLAY TRICKS

A friend told the story of a young woman he met in Port Moresby

who had completely enchanted him. They had a relationship over

several months. His small son loved her.  She was becoming the

mother of the boy.

One day, she told the man she wanted to visit her mother in Alotau.

So he paid her airline ticket and she left to come back in a fortnight.

About a week later she phoned with great news. She was pregnant.

Of course you are the father darling. I have been with you 4 months.

But there is a problem. Since this is my first child, my mother wants

to look after me in Alotau. Could you send K400 each fortnight my

darling?

The friend told her that he wanted the best for her. So he arranged

for her to go to the best doctor in Alotau. Could she go and see him

next week? The woman said she would be going to a family doctor.

What was his name? She did not say.

Two weeks later, she rang to say that her appendix was playing up

due to the pregnancy. Darling, my doctor says I need an operation

costing K800. Could you send the money? The man was becoming

suspicious. What is the doctor’s name? She would not say.

But she would ring crying with the pregnancy and the pain. Her father

spoke on the phone and threatened the white man with trouble if his

daughter died. He had to fix the problem.

So he arranged for her to fly back to Port Moresby. On the morning,

before she was to fly she rang to say that she was so disappointed with

him that she had an abortion. It was all his fault. She arrived crying in

agony.

But the white man had made arrangements for her to have an operation

at the local private clinic. He drove her from the airport to the clinic. But

she refused to go in. Instead she picked up her bag and walked off

saying she would be staying with her boyfriend.

AusAID and UN lesbian advisors how do we get young women like

this to attend your workshops to learn to be empowered?

Are you proud of this young woman? She is a sex worker posing as a

girlfriend. Have you been telling young women that all men are bastards

and deserved to be tricked?

Some white men are managers with strict checking procedures in

the company. But in their private lives, many allow beautiful young

women to play all kinds of tricks. But not this one. He was not a

company financial controller for nothing.

The white man suspected all this. That explains the unexplained

names in her mobile phone and the long phone calls in his toilet

with the occasional giggling and the secret nightly phone calls on

silent.

She did not know the original airline ticket was to send her home

permanently. It was a one-way ticket.

We read in the media of PNG men meeting girls outside schools

and taking them off for sex. We are not told they were contacted

by the young girls on mobile phones and place and price arranged.