Uzbeck Dentist Turned Sex Worker
Uzbek legs, photo by Navin Weeraratne
My friend Navin Weeraratne is a master of the Facebook photo album as art form. This is his most recent work, a photo interview with an Uzbek prostitute, told through captions. I haven’t included all the photos, only two. It’s a great story, well told. Search for local prostitutes accounts for a large amount of Google traffic into this site, but it’s rare that anyone actually talks to one. Great work by Navin.
The following are his words, used by permission
Lisa has a Sri Lankan accent and speaks Singhalese almost fluently.
She trained as a dentist for 6 years. She would not say why it didn’t work out.
She showed me some pictures of billboards and ads of her in Russia – and then revealed she had created them using photoshop.
I honestly could not tell they were doctored images.
She has a six year old son living in Russia, “Mooska.” Mooska till recently was schooling in New Delhi where he learned to say “Ammi” instead of “Momma”, and loves his boxing lessons.
Lisa has a boyfriend in Negombo who wants to marry her, and pull her away from prostitution.
Unfortunately, he is too afraid to man up and tell his father he wants to marry a young mother. I told her that her boyfriend has no balls and explained to her the concept of the Mamma’s Boy. While she did not like me saying that he had no balls, she very much agreed that he lacked them.
I wanted to take pictures of her at Cleopatra, but we had to leave after another working girl there called her pimp and complained that Lisa was infringing on her turf.
She wanted beer, cigarettes, and facebook. The latter two were easy enough, but the beer had to come from the “black market”, as this was of course pretty late at night.
Lisa refused to say how many packs she smoked a day. I reminded her that Surgeon Generals frown on this sort of thing.
Her passport went missing after a client stole her purse one night at the Galadari, but she seemed to see this as an annoyance more than anything else.
Lisa was also unconcerned traveling about in a three wheeler at night. “This is Kollupitiya. All the police know me.”
She does not walk alone in the streets of Colombo. “You know what its like for women.”
I took her back home and got to work on her — with my camera.
Lisa posed for free.
She did offer me something else for free several times through the evening though, which I found quite flattering.
Lisa wants out of her current profession, and wants to be able to marry her boyfriend and give her a son a normal life, here in Sri Lanka.
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Then in a comment he wrote
It’s starting to hit me now.
This woman:
- went to dental school at 18.
- had kid at 20.
- finished dental school.
- decided she would become a hooker at the other end of the continent, to give her child a better future (father must have “shot through”).
This is a level of drive, strength, and self sacrifice, that I simply cannot understand. It is superhuman to me. It is scary.
Lisa’s not a hooker.
She’s a force of nature.
My chiropractor is from Uzbek and got my knee working fine (still at it) after I broke it. More than that she is a marvellous human being. She too is a single mother supporting her two kids. But she is doing very well with $45-85 a session. Perhaps Lisa should start pulling teeth out for free, after practice she can charge for it! Nice essay’, both of you.
Lisa, you rock!
Interesting story, how can we access the full interview?
that is the full interview
“Lisa’s not a hooker?” She gets paid for sex.
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I don’t think that that Negambo man is too afraid to tell his father that he wants to marry a young mother. He’s probably afraid to tell him that he wants to “marry a force of nature.”
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Btw, so is Navin paying for sex?
Exactly what I was thinking. And I wonder if Lisa was just role playing. Maybe that’s what Navin wanted to hear.
You know it’s a real possibility. I mean some women are really into this role playing thing so maybe some men are too and Navin’s one of them. Anyway I think if you have to role play to spice up your sex life, it’s just sad. If you have to pay a dentist and still not get your teeth fixed, it’s even sadder.
Looking forward to Indi’s next post called, ” Silly Lankan ParleyMutt turned Sex Worker.”
ps. At least what Lisa does is much more honest than what some of the Government sycophants on this blog and on groinviews sayand do …all for a mess of pottage.
or a pot of massage, or whatever.
A force of nature indeed. And here our government goes around plastering their’ faces on newspapers trying to make society to reject them >:(
And the power of FB is unimaginable.
Can we have a story on this? Sounds much more interesting.
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Pope closes monastery after ex-stripper show
The Pope has evicted a group of monks from a renowned monastery after reports they staged a concert featuring a lap-dancer-turned-nun.
Anna Nobili was invited to perform her “holy dance” — in which she lies spread-eagled in front of an altar while holding a cross and writhes around like a pole-dancer — before an audience of distinguished church members in 2009.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8254172/pope-closes-monastery-after-ex-stripper-show
And here I thought dentists made a killing.
No, I don’t think Navin is paying for sex. He was offered it free of charge, but he politely refused.
You get plenty of forces of nature everywhere, including Sri Lanka. Sometimes the the stories are can be fabricated or exaggerated, so you need to do a bit of cross checking. Know a few people who could be considered forces of nature. One recent example.
Parents killed by the LTTE when she was aged 14. Only Child.
Was carrying on with a guy since about 18 and when she got pregnant at 20 moved to the guys parents home.
Guy did not marry her. When the child was born, guys parents pressurized while she was in hospital to make them the adoptive parents. She walked out the hospital while they were not around and traveled about 200 km with the child just a few days old to her hometown and lived with an aunt.
Supported herself and child by doing things like digging sand for use in construction, helping pull fishing nets (ma del) and selling the fish you get for pulling the nets. When the child was about 5 years went to Jordan for 8 years and sent back about 9 lakhs for childs upkeep and a house to be built. Comes back after the the tsunami fearing something has happened to the child (aunts, extended family live near the coast). Finds that the child has been put in an orphanage and no house has been built. Manages to collect child, works in butcher shop then a restaurant as cook and supports herself and child.
The child a daughter, is about 17 now. Just passed her O/L’s and while waiting till A/L school began did the first part in Association of Accounting Technicians in Sinhala.
The mother is always ebullient and rarely down in spirits. Lesser events have sent my relatives into psychiatric wards and a permanently pessimistic view of life.
Of course that story is passe, not extravagant enough to be a “force of nature”. F’n morons.
Correction, it’s not extravagant enough to be documented and shared, not appealing to the ese taste. :)