In a recent article in New York Times, it was stated that older white women are joining Kenya’s sex tourists. The local people on the coast estimated that one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex. Jake Grieves-Cook says” it’s not evil, but it’s certainly something we frown upon.” The health risks are greater in a country with an AIDS prevalence of 6.9 percent. The condom use can only be guessed, however when asked a woman said condoms were too business like for her fantasies.
These rich women who are coming over for sex are buying or bargaining the much younger boys to have sex with them for something the boys want but can’t afford. For example, a new pair of sunglasses or a new pair of sports shoes. One boy just kissed his “buyer” so he could get more coins for a pool game. The hotels are 100 percent against prostitution, but this is different, it is just unwholesome.
The same beaches are not only bringing in sex tourists, but ones who abuse children. As many as 15,000 girls in four coastal districts and about a third of all 12-18 year old girls there are involved in casual sex for cash. Up to 3,000 more girls and boys are in full-time sex work, some paid for the “most horrific and abnormal acts.”
These acts are preying on the people in poverty because to them all they have to do is have sex with a rich woman or man and they can have the same things that the rich people have. Experts say some thrive on the social status and financial power that comes from taking much poorer, younger lovers."
My analysis of this article is that it is very sad that rich women and men are persuading young children to have sex with them by bribing them with money or material things. To a person in poverty giving of themselves they have nothing to lose only stuff to gain. I think it is very degrading that rich people are making innocent people believe to get rich or nice things that they have to have sex with them. It makes it look like all wealthy people are like that or that wealth equals sex. I wish that we could put it to a stop because the people in poverty are the ones that are being fooled by these sex tourists.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-kenya-sextourism.html
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I was surprised to read that there are more women actually participating in this now. Sex tourism has always seemed to me more of something that is dominated by males. But I think whether it is males or females committing the acts, they are just as horrible. To convince someone to have sex with you just so they can have things they want or need is terrible.
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