The only way prostitutes survive is through sexual wits; skimpily dressed and sending overtures to potential clients.
Nakuru town has of late become popular with sex trade and many of its streets are dotted by skimpily dressed girls.
Christened the Sin City or Nax Vegas, the town has not experienced a shortage of these nigh nurses.
As a writer, the mystery of sex workers’ dressing has always baffled me.
Selvet Akinyi, 31, is a Nakuru-based sex worker. She has laid more men than her age.
"You know men like curves and hips like these ones of mine, so I have to stay naked and expose to them yawa ndio nionekane. When they see them they come begging me to go with them but mi huchagua mwenye ako na pesa mingi," the girl said amid chuckles.
Njeri Kimani ,35, said that men are visual animals and the pioneers of the world’s oldest profession must have studied that ‘animal’.
"Most men like brown women like me and when I appear dressed like this; they see my smooth skin and brown hips and come to me. I can get even twenty or thirty men a night when dressed like that but when I wear a trouser or other clothes I will get two or three,” she said.
But how many men can a prostitute bed in a night? “I can only handle five per night," she disclosed.
As I penetrated one brothel after the other, I understood why there was a popular saying in our hood over vulgarity.
When your words were considered vulgar, you would be demonized for speaking like a ‘malaya’. True to the phrase, many girls plying sex trade do not care about sex talk and can say anything.
Many of the things I heard in the brothels are unprintable.
And the confidence in which a prostitute speaks about her trade shocked me.
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