Prostitution In Toni Morrison's Siddhartha

On the 1st of January, 2000, two children were born in Calcutta. They shared not only the date and place of birth, but also secrets of the body. The boy had a penis twice the average size. The girl was born with two vaginas. In every other way, they were opposites. He was called SIDDHARTHA. She was named MADHOBILATA.

Siddhartha was an unwanted bastard of a man and his mistress. He was raised by his mother without his father’s name and lived inside his father’s adult theatre, in the hope of entering his home one day.

Madhobilata was born to born-again Christians, grieving the death of their first child and seeking a replacement. All she was expected to do was to keep her legs crossed and play the part of her dead sister.

Despite their higher

New Calcutta was a different place; the climate had changed. Prostitution was legal, as was pornography. The place was hot, water was short and sex was the new currency. People slept around there were whore-houses at every turn. Siddhartha and Madhobilata were there in search of a name and a home, and found that they were in demand. By then, they had had sexual experiences that had given him pleasure and power, and brought her pain and shame. For the first time, they could earn from them. They entered the sex industry where they were cast in roles again: the angry, big cock and the shy, tight

Their work together tested the boundaries of the censors, the viewers and their own sexual faiths. It blurred the lines between reel and real, consensual and forcible, but it brought them success; it also brought them closer. They started seeing each other.

Their courtship was as rough as their hardcore stuff. He hit her, she let him, he courted her and she nursed him. When he said he loved her too, they began living-in, and when they broke-up, he won her back. They didn’t want to lose each other again, so they got married. She gave up her career to set up his home, and he took on the world for her. At last, their roles were of their own choosing: man, wife; hunter, gatherer. Things felt right until they fell apart.

One day, she discovered she was pregnant, and that same night, he became impotent. Once again, their roles changed and their relationship. They felt deprived of sex and fell short of money. She went back to work, for she thought that she had to. He felt it was cheating and believed she didn’t need to. At a time like that, their child was born, and it drove them further apart. They strayed when they couldn’t stay together