O! Say it ain't so!

[lsanderson]

Older White Women Join Kenya's Sex Tourists
By REUTERS

Filed at 8:24 a.m. ET

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." More

Grandma's getting laid on holiday...

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

"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?"

it's not!

sadly, people will fail to make the connection that this means that a man buying a young girl dinner is also creepy and effectively prostitution, and instead they will explain about how there's really loads of difference.

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

Right. What you said. It's creepy the other way too.

[marahsk.livejournal.com]

Yup, totally prostitution! But somehow I'm just not horrified at the idea of mentally competent adults making that choice, if that's what they want to do.