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>  Subject: Older white women join Kenya's sex touristsDate: Thu, 29 Nov 
> 2007 15:37:59 -0600From: [log in to unmask]: 
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>  http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2638979720071126 
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>  Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:28am 
> EST By Jeremy Clarke 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.
>  "But it's certainly something we frown upon." Also, the health risks 
> are stark in a country with an AIDS prevalence of 6.9 percent. 
> Although condom use can only be guessed at, Julia Davidson, an 
> academic at Nottingham University who writes on sex tourism, said that 
> in the course of her research she had met women who shunned condoms -- 
> finding them too "businesslike" for their exotic fantasies.
>  The white beaches of the Indian Ocean coast stretched before the 
> friends as they both walked arm-in-arm with young African men, Allie 
> resting her white haired-head on the shoulder of her companion, a 
> six-foot-four 23-year-old from the Maasai tribe.
>  He wore new sunglasses he said were a gift from her. "We both get 
> something we want -- where's the negative?" Allie asked in a bar 
> later, nursing a strong, golden cocktail. She was still wearing her 
> bikini top, having just pulled on a pair of jeans and a necklace of 
> traditional African beads.
>  Bethan sipped the same local drink: a powerful mix of honey, fresh 
> limes and vodka known locally as "Dawa," or "medicine."
>  She kept one eye on her date -- a 20-year-old playing pool, a red 
> bandana tying back dreadlocks and new-looking sports shoes on his feet.
>  He looked up and came to join her at the table, kissing her, then 
> collecting more coins for the pool game. "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."
>  These same beaches have long been notorious for attracting another 
> type of sex tourists -- those who abuse children. As many as 15,000 
> girls in four coastal districts -- about a third of all 12-18 
> year-olds girls there -- are involved in casual sex for cash, a joint 
> study by Kenya's government and U.N. children's charity UNICEF 
> reported late last year.
>  Up to 3,000 more girls and boys are in full-time sex work, it said, 
> some paid for the "most horrific and abnormal acts."
>  "PREYING ON POVERTY?" Emerging alongside this black market trade -- 
> and obvious in the bars and on the sand once the sun goes down -- are 
> thousands of elderly white women hoping for romantic, and legal, 
> encounters with much younger Kenyan men.
>  They go dining at fine restaurants, then dancing, and back to 
> expensive hotel rooms overlooking the coast. "One type of sex tourist 
> attracted the other," said one manager at a shorefront bar on 
> Mombasa's Bamburi beach. "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."
>  Experts say some thrive on the social status and financial power that 
> comes from taking much poorer, younger lovers. "This is what is sold 
> to tourists by tourism companies -- a kind of return to a colonial 
> past, where white women are served, serviced, and pampered by black 
> minions," said Nottinghan University's Davidson.
>  "LIVE LIKE THE RICH" Many of the visitors are on the lookout for men 
> like Joseph. Flashing a dazzling smile and built like an Olympic 
> basketball star, the 22-year-old said he has slept with more than 100 
> white women, most of them 30 years his senior.
>  "When I go into the clubs, those are the only women I look for now," 
> he told Reuters. "I get to live like the rich mzungus (white people) 
> who come here from rich countries, staying in the best hotels and just 
> having my fun."
>  At one club, a group of about 25 dancing men -- most of them Joseph 
> look-alikes -- edge closer and closer to a crowd of more than a dozen 
> white women, all in their autumn years.
>  "It's not love, obviously. I didn't come here looking for a husband," 
> Bethan said over a pounding beat from the speakers.
>  "It's a social arrangement. I buy him a nice shirt and we go out for 
> dinner. For as long as he stays with me he doesn't pay for anything, 
> and I get what I want -- a good time. How is that different from a man 
> buying a young girl dinner?"
>  (Editing by Daniel Wallis and Sara Ledwith) © Reuters 2006. All 
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