Comfort Woman by Maria Rosa Henson

Author:Maria Rosa Henson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War, Biography: general, Biography: historical, Prostitution, Social history, War crimes, Biography/Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Biography / Autobiography, Philippines, Asia - General, Women, History / Asia
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 1999-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

Comfort Woman

Every day this was the scene in my room.

swollen that I was in pain for three days. Even the hot water compress I made could not relieve the pain.

Some soldiers punched my legs and belly after they had ejaculated prematurely, staining their pants with their semen. One soldier raped me, and when he was finished, ordered me to fondle his genitals. He wanted to rape me a second time, but could not get an erection. So he bumped my head and legs against the wall. It was so painful. As he was hitting me, the soldiers outside started knocking impatiently on the wall. Through the thin curtain, I could see their impatient figures huddled in the hall.

Every day there were incidents of violence and humiliation. These happened not only to me, but also to the other women there. Some-

\ times I heard crying and the sound

; of someone being beaten up as

; there was only a partition made of woven bamboo that divided my room from those of the others.

When the soldiers raped me, I felt like a pig. Sometimes they tied up my right leg with a waist band or belt and hung it on a nail on the wall as they violated me. I was angry all the time. But there

was nothing I could do. How many more days, I thought. How many more months? Someday we will be free, I thought. But how?

I thought of my guerrilla activities and my comrades. I regretted

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