Desperate times demand desperate decisions. This is usually the case with twilight girls in Mombasa. Whenever authorities or the owner closes down a brothel, commercial sex workers have to seek alternatives.
A closure of their business hub, as was once the case in Saba Saba, forces some to seek locally available solutions to quench their flesh-thirsty customers. These women decide to do the illegal business in the open.
Any dark area, that can be secure for themselves and their clients, is used to continue the business that authorities behind the closure of brothels thought could stop by lack of a conducive operating venue.
Market kiosks, corridors, buildings under construction and verandas are some of the fancied alternatives.
The men who help these twilight girls are the security guards. They offer security as the women serve their customers on walls and any available space.
The guards get a fee that is more affordable than the normal lodging fees making the prostitutes not to relocate even if they lack a modern building to run their business.
This extraordinary courage has made it hard for concerned authorities to stop the illegal trade. You close the pubs and brothels and the flesh peddlers decide to do it in the open.