Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists

[eudaemonia]

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64.

They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls."

Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex.

Allie and Bethan -- who both declined to give their full names -- said they planned to spend a whole month touring Kenya's palm-fringed beaches. They would do well to avoid the country's tourism officials.

"It's not evil," said Jake Grieves-Cook, chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board, when asked about the practice of older rich women traveling for sex with young Kenyan men.

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"JUST UNWHOLESOME"

Grieves-Cook and many hotel managers say they are doing all they can to discourage the practice of older women picking up local boys, arguing it is far from the type of tourism they want to encourage in the east African nation.

"The head of a local hoteliers' association told me they have begun taking measures -- like refusing guests who want to change from a single to a double room," Grieves-Cook said.

"It's about trying to make those guests feel as uncomfortable as possible ... But it's a fine line. We are 100 percent against anything illegal, such as prostitution. But it's different with something like this -- it's just unwholesome."

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"Old white guys have always come for the younger girls and boys, preying on their poverty ... But these old women followed ... they never push the legal age limits, they seem happy just doing what is sneered at in their countries."

Source: Reuters News

 

[The Gimp]

Visiting a prostitute is risky enough, but doing so in Africa is like playing Russian Roulette with three bullets in the chamber. I'm all for these women getting laid, but there has got to be a safer way to do it.
Someone should open a brothel in Vegas that caters to older women with the hots for younger men

 

[eudaemonia]

I'm all for these women getting laid, but there has got to be a safer way to do it.

Someone should open a brothel in Vegas that caters to older women with the hots for younger men

Google is your friend : Heidi's Stud Farm (with update)

BTW, prostitution is illegal in Nevada's Clark and Washoe counties (where Las Vegas and Reno are located, respectively), though legal brothels are permitted elsewhere in the state.

 

[Cathleen]

STD/AIDS aside -- interesting, very interesting.

 

[SweetErika]

The age of consent in the UK is 16. Now maybe these older ladies have trouble finding someone who's 16 or so to have sex with them, even if money or goods are offered, but I can't imagine it being that hard to find given the amount of guys who are incredibly horny and even fixated on older women. Even if the ladies are really unattractive, there's someone out there for everyone, it seems.

At 27, I can't imagine having sex with someone who's around 18, much less 16 or younger, giving them money to perform, or doing this in an African or other nation where HIV/AIDS is rampant. I'd feel like a predator and would just be too afraid of both the emotional risks to them and the health risks for me.

Ick. Ick. Ick.

But an interesting story, as Cate said, all the same.