By Chiderah Aalisa, Your Black World
“They have a list of men they plan to sleep with before they’re 21 years old…athletes and celebrities are on it.”
Young girls- ages 15 and 16 pretending to be 18 and older. A woman named Regina has seen these girls even as naive as thirteen posing as older women, sporting fake identities ordered from online vendors.
Absent-minded children, with bodies giving off no indication of prepubescent age; the perfect vulnerability required to carryout their plans. She explained how the group leaders recruit these young girls equally thirsty for money, coerce them into believing they will be successful, and show them how to “work” the areas, the leagues or the cities.
“They think…why make $100, when you can make $1,000?” she added.
The motto isn’t indicative of the mindset of every prostitute. Instead, it describes a different kind of lust for money, precisely the kind of lust that it takes to partake in this undercover world. The female predators that Regina spent time with specifically target men they know have money.
It’s an elaborate plan. The money they gain supports the drugs, alcohol, shopping and partying. It’s fun, it’s foolproof, and above all- it is blackmail. After all, these men obviously involve themselves with prostitution, and therefore perceive themselves somewhat responsible for being there in the first place. They pay up to make it all go away.
Regina encounters these young prostitutes frequently, as her job- one that offers aesthetic and cosmetic services to prostitutes- allows her to interact with and occasionally befriend them. Her disclosure of this information about the elite exploitation ring compromises both her own safety, and the secrecy of the undercover world. To her, even a last name is too much information.
“These girls tell the men they’re much older, and they change their names all the time.” Regina explained, “Behind closed doors they give the men date rape drugs and take pictures of them in the morning. If they don’t get their money, they threaten to [expose] the pictures.”
They travel where the athletes and celebrities go- concerts, training camps, and other events that give them exposure to lonely men in big cities. These girls can service up to 12 clients a day, even charging $100 for servicing two men at a time.
Regina describes this activity to be “raping” the unsuspecting men. Having known a group of girls who even poked holes in the condoms to get themselves pregnant, to her this went far beyond making money.
“I want to talk about this because it’s disgusting what these girls do. They don’t even think about AIDS and other diseases.” She said. “And, I don’t believe that Lawrence Taylor did anything to that girl, I think he was a victim of another scam”.
Taylor’s involvement in the prostitution scandal is still subject to investigation, but the story that Regina presents allows for more discourse on gender roles in even stigmatized realms like prostitution. It feels like reaching, to accuse young girls of such criminal activity, but a confession like this begs the question- perhaps we shouldn’t put it past them.
“They just got a guy. A football player I think he was,” Regina added, “He paid eight-thousand dollars to make it all disappear.”
**Name changed to protect the source.
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