Sex for Fish - Kenya

Oct 2007
Kenya's female fish sellers have to pay a high price for their supplies.
As well as buying the fish, they're expected to sleep with the
fishermen. The practice is fuelling Kenya's AID rate. According the UN,
7% of the Kenyan population has AIDs. In the fishing district of Lake
Victoria, it's a staggering 42%. Many blame the high infection rate on
fishermen sleeping with their buyers -- a practice known as 'jaboya'.
"You don't get fish if you refuse", complains one woman. "After I
rejected one man, he tried to stop the other fishermen bringing me
fish", confides Winnie. She was forced to give in and now has AIDS. To
make matters worse, most of the Nile perch caught gets exported to
Europe, depriving locals of a much needed source of protein. "We are in
a situation where the people here barely have any protein to eat",
complains Dr Abila.

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[ravenmasterson]

wreckennerve77, It's your mentality that's responsible for rapes and the like. Why aren't you putting the men down for coercing the women into it? Also, regarding Kenyan women engaging in sex consenually, what's wrong with a woman being sexually liberated and being supported. It amazes me how you male chauvinist put women down for our agenda, but uphold yours (calling us sluts whether sex is consenual or not). Men, or parasites like you, need to have your willy cut off. Don't ever meet me!

[slobodividov]

idiot

[Eshe4evahMore]

@lmf800 yur just a dumb bitch cunt

[MsNairobi]

This is really sad, very sad ........BTW noticed....The Luo's do not need subtitles when they speak in English :)... even if they studied in the Luo village schools....

[Sikhindu]

This is just an issue of victimization as usual. It doesn't only happen here, it's all over the place. Women are coerced into sex, and it's part of the chauvinistic culture.

[ifeeldirty]

@Malpauhej because nothing comes for free. they don't have money + noone would hire a woman as a fisherman. it's not like Europe or USA, the sex matters.

[Malpauhej]

why dont they just learn how to fish?

[lmf800]

She gives it up for fish?? LOL. What a slut...She made the others give up the fish-sex biz to weave because she wanted all the mud-dik?

[ScopedOUT2]

@ravenmasterson Your sexual liberation is also a liberation of AIDS, STDs and breaking families, the result of which breaks down society slowly, but surely.