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Although most people only link Koinange Street to prostitution in the city, there are other bigger and more decorated hotspots where workers in the world's oldest profession have congregated to do their trade.
The following are Nairobi's top prostitution hubs:
1. Kayole
Here sex workers parade themselves around the popular Nyama Villa club. You will mostly see them lining along Spine Road on either side of the club.
Their trade is facilitated by the numerous lodges dotting the area.
2. UmojaProstitution here is facilitated by the large number of pubs and joints for wines and spirit joints.
Like in Kayole, sex workers here operate around these joints and lay in wait for their prey.
3. EastleighProstitution here is majorly dominant around 12th street. The area has several lodges especially because of long distance travellers who alight or board buses here.
Eritrean and Ethiopian girls have their territory at 3rd and 9th Streets.
4. MajengoMajengo is just a stone-throw distance from Eastleigh's 12th Street and is regarded as the core of prostitution in Nairobi.
It is said to offer the cheapest services with the women sitting outside their rooms waiting for clients.
5. NgaraHere, sex workers thrive on the influx of university students in the area. There is always that easy money from naive students who are learning the street ways of Nairobi.
6. Pipeline
It is said that sex workers here come from the neighbouring Machakos county.
They have rented bedsitters that they use as nests for their trade.
7. DandoraIf gang crime is the stereotype for men in Dandora, prostitution is its equivalent for women.
Sex workers here offer services at very cheap rates, making Dandora a hub for commercial sex.