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By Sue: The Kenyan prostitute building a brand.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Up Nairobi : The Types Of Tourists And How They Rank
(I still write a monthly column for UP Magazine. Below is an excerpt from this month’s issue. If the story looks so smooth and lacks the roughness of what I write here, then its because it has passed through the hands of an editor. UP Magazine is distributed free of charge at coffee shops, shopping malls and petrol stations in Nairobi. )

Cities often acquire their identity from the physical, culture, economic activity or any other such strong attribute. Thus, Dubai could be defined by its architectural designs, while Rabat could be identified by the strong Islamic culture. What about Nairobi, could it be a city without character? What is the immediate feel one gets on arrival in the city, other than the hurly-burly of any urban center?

Nairobi is many things but seems to lack any dominant quality to label it. In the absence of a black and white clarity of what it is, city fathers, residents and notably the media have tried to come up with idioms to characterize Nairobi. These range from the feel good (but no longer in vogue) Green City In The Sun to the resigned Nairobbery.

But then there is also the tourist view of Nairobi; Nairobi as packaged in travel websites, brochures and in-flight magazines. This is the Nairobi of The Hilton and Inter Continental Hotels. The Nairobi which is “the only city with a national park” and Nairobi which is home to Kibera, “one of the largest slums in Africa”. The tourist Nairobi is thus experienced in cozy vans, and five star hotels.

Yet, there will be the visitor who will want to experience the city beyond the marketed view; knowing very well the heart of any city is not visible in the colorful brochures or marketing slogans. The most prominent of these are the backpackers who stay in Ksh.1, 500 a night lodgings like Africana and Kenya Lodge.

Here, on the Street we have passing respect for these, we call them the “black white men”. They will come to the Street in an effort to get to the city’s core. But we don’t take the back packers seriously. Over time, girls on the Street have come to know they travel cheap, every coin counts to them and some are rough men in their own countries.

You know, the kind that get involved in bar brawls or who is running from the police for a reason or another. We recognize the back packers from a mile away by their smell, dirtyside-pockets and attempt at Swahili. The backpackers don’t pay well. Many of those who have stayed in the country in excess of a month are more broke than some of us; they only have a few shillings and their return ticket. A girl will go with a back packer because it was a bad night or she thinks he is the silly student kind, and can easily rip him off.

The real gem, though, are the middle aged, or elderly men, who sneak from their five star hotels to come to the Street to see another side of the city. The most daring of them wear shorts, sneakers and come walking to the Street.

Sometimes they come upon the Street by chance as they take a walk around the city. Sometimes it’s by strategy after colluding with a taxi driver or a mischievous waiter. This kind of man will be loaded with cash, open minded and in search of adventure. There are two kinds of these men; those who want to have a session with a girl, and the others who want a girl to act as a tour guide to the other side of the city.

Sometime ago, one of these men came walking from a local hotel at around 9:00p.m. He had grey hair but walked with a bounce that made him look energetic. In such situations the girls will literally surround the man, talk all the English they know, hoping he will fall for them. And so we did. But it’s not always the case that the man will know English; some are French or German…. Read the rest here.

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Saturday, October 22, 2011
UP Magazine: “Meet my girlfriend, Sue.”

I still write a monthly column for UP Magazine. Below is an excerpt from this month’s issue. UP Magazine is distributed free of charge at coffee shops, shopping malls and petrol stations in Nairobi. Of course the article has gone through an editor…..

There seems to be so much anxiety in this city. It’s all reflected in the daily hustle and bustle of the residents. Few people are calm and relaxed in what they do. An example, the ever growing party scene. Rather than end up looking genuinely happy and relaxed, party goers wear worried looks and their joy seems artificial.

The Street is not immune to the city’s anxiety. But whereas the anxiety in the rest of the city seems to be driven by the search for the little more and the pressure to become the best, the worry on the Street is more a result of efforts to maintain the status quo and keep from falling. In most of the City settings success is well defined, and the formula for success is clear. However on the Street the formula for success is vague; as anything that is largely made up of luck, unpredictable human emotions and what not.

The girls who show most of their skins or dress up fashionably are not the most successful. And so are those who only pursue white men and sleek cars. Success on the Street is thus left to “God” and our daily labors are aimed more at maintaining our present state of achievement. The fear of becoming worse than we presently are generates a lot of our anxiety. We are focused less in succeeding and more in preventive measures to avoid a fall. A fall is a matter of both personal and peer honor. If I am yanked off the Street because I was jailed for stealing from a man, or since I could not sweet talk the city council askari or the magistrate, then that’s a fall.

And so is when a once-favorite man stops picking me in favor of another girl; it does not matter whether the girl is less glamorous than me. If I am out for two months or so because of sickness, not necessarily sexually transmitted, then that is a fall.

If I am sick I would rather say I had gone to chase Ugandan men in Kampala. Here on the Street there is a very thin line between a decline and a fall. Well, here they are one and the same thing. A fall will mean that I become part of the Street fable. And because girls talk so much, I will be walking round the city thinking everybody knows everything about me. What causes a fall, whether chance or choice, is seen as contagious, and girls want to have little to do with a girl who has fallen even once. Thus girls will use all manner of trickery to avoid being seen as fallen.

Sometimes the anxieties of the rest of the city’s residents converge with those of us on the Street. As happens once in a while a regular client will drop me and pick another girl. The only way to avoid being labeled a failure by the other girls is not to let them know that has happened, which is almost impossible, or to redeem myself by having a better man pick me. Better would mean a man who drives a more expensive car, or who is foreign. The country of origin matters little. So it happened to me the other night. A regular client ignored me for Nancy; a newbie. But before the other girls could start talking I got a chance to save my skin the same night…Read the rest here

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Episode 49: My Retirement Plan
Now that I plan to quit the Street in the next six months or so, I am thinking of a retirement plan. The ideal retirement plan for most girls here is to hit a jackpot and live happily ever after. The jackpot could be through marriage to a rich white man or pinching a substantial amount of money from a local. The Street is full of legends of girls who retired that way. Yet that rarely happens nowadays. The white men, I think, have professional, decent girls to chose from. It seems more than ever before many Nairobi girls are willing to throw themselves at the feet of white men. I see it always when occasionally I pass through Westlands at night or while in a cyber and a girl has opened Love Find Me. On the other hand its long since I heard of a girl who had stolen more than 20,000 shillings from a man, bet over time the local men have learned not to carry more than a few thousand shillings when hitting the Street.

I am not planning to quit as a result of a moral conversion or having identified something better to do. Simply I am avoiding reaching the point of diminishing returns. In our trade supply outstrips demand by a factor of almost three. The girls are much more than the men. The men who come to the Street are somehow a constant; their numbers and identities don’t change much. It’s the same men who started coming here five years ago who still come. Those coming to the Street for the first time increase at a less proportionate rate to the girls, and also to the men leaving. There will be nights where every car coming to the Street will be familiar. And weeks where I sleep with the same usual men who know how much I charge and my point of faking orgasm.

By the time a girl hits three years on the Street the men know her. However good one is there gets a point where one stops being the first choice of a man. At that point a man will pick a 3 years plus girl because he has come late when the fresh girls are gone, for old times sake or when too drunk to recognize her. It is more or less like what happens in marriage after a few years.

When a girl is no longer the first choice of any of the men anger and hatred starts building inside. She insults men who leave her behind, and the girls who go with them. She drinks a lot and start developing a cold aged look, which makes her less attractive. I have seen it with many girls here. Of course there are exceptions, girls who maintain their shine even after practicing for three years and more. But such are few, and many of those who outwardly look beautiful are ugly inside. I know myself and I don’t expect to be among the exceptions.

Marriage has never been part of my plan and pinching a good amount of cash a long shot. So my retirement plan has me thinking of doing something with almost similar traits as what I do now; the adrenaline rush, some creativity, independence and the lack of formality and commitment . Sometimes I think I am lazy . See I want to do things at my own pace and to my own satisfaction, which is adjusted every time failure requests. I don’t want to be appraised and set goals by others. Anyway I digress. So one of these things with similar traits is what made me enroll for a certain course. The course that has made me miss in action for the last two and a half weeks; reading and writing exams.

My next occupation is just one of the challenges of retirement. How to fill the emotional and physical gap left after quitting is another thing. I am not talking about lurvy durvy emotions, but the simple emotions that come as a result of connecting with people who really matter to you. The happiness that I feel when talking of my escapades with colleagues, or the temporary comfort I get when I sleep on the chest of a nice client. Such emotional connections take time to build, and when out there I am not sure I will be able to connect with other people, and if I do, it may take long by which time I will have been labeled a snob, freak, recluse or any such words that describe those with emotional oddities. Yet I am not so much worried about the emotions for all said and done I will have a great relationship with my local barman.

I have previously said that I don’t care much for sex, especially the fun part of it. But that does not mean I do not have urges. I do. My clients whether good or bad help satisfy my sex urges, and I feel naturally whole again. So what will I do about sex when out of the Street? A relationship for me is out of question. I will fail. It will be difficult for me to commit and not cheat. A tit for tat for me because after what I have seen so far on the Street I will always be convinced my man is not cheating. Although I wont tell any man about my past, some of the habits I have acquired from the Street might live with me forever, and when they pop certainly create tensions between me and my partner. For instance in moments of frustration and drunkenness I use rough filthy words which no man would be pleased to hear his girl use.

There is also the option of going for one night stands. But these will be almost the same thing as what I do presently. I wont enjoy them as much. I know these days a girl can pay a man to have sex with her, like I once did. Yet this snatches a key component of sex; the testosterone part; knowing I am having sex with a real man. A man who agrees to be paid to have sex, rather than fight for it, may not have enough testosterone in him.

Yeah I can’t forget the toys. I have couple of those, but like a friend said everybody sometimes craves for 3D sex, where you hold and kiss each other during the act. A sex mate is the best option. But men have presently become very poor in bed, and to find a good one I will have to road test several ,something I am not very enthusiastic about. I can only wait and see ,but I am sure to get a solution for this little problem

When a girl joins the Street she soon hears of the legends and experiences of other who have been in the trade before. Some of the experiences sound exciting,others generate curiosity, while others feel like a must do . Like there are so many positive and negative stories about the white men who pick girls here, and every girl wants to experience it. I have slept with several of these. There are also things said about men from a certain tribe, and only when a girl spends the night with such does she feel not missing out. There were days I wanted to know how it feels to drug and steal rom a man, something I have done. I also wanted to see viagra in action where its rightfully needed, with a man past 75, and I got to see it when I slept with a 78 year old man. The things to do are many,and some can only be done when one is in this trade because the opportunity and attitude are right and present.

Recently I have heard about the Great Lakes Civilization. Its the great art of love making by the men from the Great Lakes region; Burundi, Rwanda and the others. Apparently the name Great Lakes is a result of the small lakes the men from the region are able to create down there in women bodies. So I have to sleep with a man from the Great Lakes within the next six months or I might never have another chance to experience the civilization without any inhibitions. And here, for reasons I might mention later, I exclude the Congolese men based in Kenya.

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Monday, October 3, 2011
Episode 48: The New Competition & A Strip Club

Like I mentioned before competition in our industry is becoming stiff as a result of uneven distribution and the alcohol laws.You know how many of the cheap downtown bar cum brothels have been turned into exhibition halls, and how the bars are not open during the day. Until recently the competition has been with prostitutes proper; yeah the stereotype of a downtown or street prostitute;not very well educated, with a kid or two, ‘tired’, rough and all those other things. As much as these brought competition it was nothing disruptive. Maybe the biggest consequence of their flooding was accelerating the fall of the Street from the place men find girls with panache at a fair price to just any other place.

But now there is new competition coming in; the one which may actually be disruptive. There are more of the educated girls coming in, yet its not only about their education but their attitude, style and well their aura. And they are not exactly young, certainly not in college. They act and look like they are done with college and have probably hit more than a year out of school. They have the maturity, freshness and that other unexplainable thing that especially the older and more loaded men look for.

The new girls are coming in everyday; its as if they are being mobilized. My guess is an upmarket brothel was closed and they girls decided to come this way to ‘liberate’ themselves. And they hate us as much as we hate them . Us the veterans and old school girls. They know each other and will cluster together talking in their Nairobi-girl English and laughing out loud . They are very confident, quite street smart thus it has become impossible for us to intimidate them into following the ground rules. So they are getting the men as we are left frustrated,letting it out in insults. I know I should probably be on their side, what with my education and all but no my heart and loyalty is with Cheupe and all the roughies.

We the veterans are angry because we feel these girls should not be on the Street; they should be in classy brothels, clubs or in lanes in Westlands, Hurligham and those mtaas. That is if they are not trading on Facebook and the many other local hook up sites. Why they chose to come here is beyond reason. It’s as if they want to irritate and frustrate us. But this state of things won’t last for every long; not here. Something will have to give in a big way.

On a different note I have made a strippers club to be my local bar; where I will dash for a drink in the evening when I am not working . I go there to have a taste of a different version of our work. The club is the Super Mambo. This must be the lowest of the strip clubs in this city. It looks like a bad version of one of those nude club scenes in old Van Damme movies. The girls look tired and disturbed. Last week when I was there only one of the girls seemed to enjoy herself. The others didn’t even pretend to be having fun. And when it came to baring their all one of them could not even look straight at the audience. These are no like the strippers I saw in some brothel. A reader recently asked me why I should not be a stripper which according to him is more respectable.

Really?Is stripping a more honorable version of our trade? I don’t think so. But then it depends on a personal definition of self dignity. To the strippers showing what you got in public is better than giving your all. But to us showing almost all of what you got and then going all the way in private is more dignified. The debate can go forever.

I will be writing more about the new competition, strippers & some other recent experiences later. For now I have to read. I enrolled for a short course to improve my skills here and elsewhere and now its exam time.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Episode 47: The Sex Cause

Late in my high school years I was a rebel without a cause. After listening to some Millie Jackson I reasoned I could develop a feeling bitchy attitude like her. Or look like her in that cover jacket where she is seated on a toilet bowl with her pants down. Certainly there was nothing I was to achieve by acting Millie Jackson. Anyway being a bitch and grumpy was part of the attitude, but such could not survive around my full of life and well, bitchy mother. So it was only sometime after I joined campus that I decided to become a rebel again, this time with a cause.

I had gone to university very psyched up to “change the world.” However it didn’t take long to realize that most of the comrades were more interested in sex, parties and CATS than in changing the world. And the students who were changing the world didn’t seem like true believers; they spent time in meetings; all talk no action and only pretentious anger at the “state of things”. After watching Holy Man, a feel good Eddie Murphy film, I was inspired to go solo. My cause was ambiguous; a combination of human rights, going green and protecting the ozone layer. I started by vowing never to take tea because I had read somewhere that tea workers were paid peanuts. It didn’t matter to me that one cup of tea might not make much difference. I believed ” It starts with you” the catch phrase of those in solo protests. Then when I told my mother about my tea boycott he laughed and informed me in jest that a cup of coffee at Starbucks was $ 2 while the farmers here were not getting even a dollar for kilogram of cherry. I boycotted coffee too, not sure how that was going to make farmers get better prices.

Around the same time I read about farm to fork. A campaign to ensure that what is eaten is produced without harming the environment, and all those in the production chain are adequately rewarded. My farm to fork campaign involved creating a lot of fuss whenever I went to buy greens, fruits or sometimes even eat in a hotel. Of course few in this country have the patience for such fuss. So I relented. But to compensate for the guilt I felt for failing to trace the food I ate from the farm to the fork, I decided to recycle polythene bags in a big way; carrying my own papers even when going shopping in supermarkets.

Well the first protest lasted only a few months. The fire ebbed because I could not see the reward of my protest, and well I missed tea. Lets not talk about principles. But I still wanted to change the world. I still wanted to be a rebel of some kind. Thus after some few months I decided to take on the sex cause. As a woman I felt I needed to do something about our lot. I reasoned there were two ways to go about in approaching sex as a cause. One was to campaign against the portrayal of women as sex objects. And two was to empower women sexually almost literally; women to use sex as a weapon. There were already people doing the former so I settled on the latter. My mantra was simple: If a woman was to have sex with a man she should not only get the pleasure but also some material gain. The challenge was how to communicate the message without sounding a sort of desperado. And well we were in university where sex just for the kick was part of the experience. The idea became a cropper. But to make up for my failure I vowed not to have sex with men and engaged in a lesbian affair.

All this came to mind yesterday when in the process of doing something else I saw my university notebook that I used to plan my causes. I had even toyed with some slogans for the sex cause. When I read them now they seem a joke: A condom & a cent. V for Value. Dont just open your legs: Open your bag. You make a weapon everytime you part your legs. Sex is power. Then there was the classical : Women of the world unite, you got nothing to lose other than your….. . I could no come up with a punchy phrase to capture what I intened then.

So much has changed in the world and in me since then. At the moment I have a different opinion about that sex is power cause, and I am not sure I would advocate for it. But thinking of it on a lighter note and in light of how I earn my living, I didn’t sell out. I am leading from the front. I am one of those rare hands on rebel leaders. 😉

-I have answered 26 more questions. I will answer the rest soon.

-If you had paid for the Illustrated Book and I haven’t refunded your money kindly email me. I will refund you the money asap. The Illustrated book will be available free of charge sometime in October.

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Friday, September 23, 2011
Episode 46: A Banking Dilemma

Today I am facing an economic problem. More like a banking dilemma. I have heard banks that issue credit cards are in a sort of Catch 22 situation. You see there are those customers who pay their credit card bills on time, and then there are the others who go past their limits and are late to pay. The former are charged high interest, penalty fees and other amounts banks are fond of. The defaulters and over spenders rake in the profits, while the disciplined customers provide stability. When the economic times are good the banks will prefer the defaulters, but when the times are bad they wonder how to chase the defaulters away in as polite manner.

Like I mentioned before almost every girl on the Street has a husband; the regular customer who only asks for that particular girl. I have several of them, which is nothing odd. My husbands fall into two general categories. There are those who are ‘mature’, cool and undramatic men. Then there are the others, rough, unpredictable, full of life men who treat girls like well, prostitutes. The cool guys are the gentlemen among the johns; but then they are sort of boring. Almost everything about them is as routine as their visits. Even their pay is fixed and rarely give a bonus. But these men provide security.

On the other hand the rough character regulars seem to act by the moment. Sometimes they time their visits sometimes they don’t. Its like they just seat in a bar watching football then miss me. So they get into their cars and come looking for me. These are the men who are as likely to take me to a dingy downtown hotel as they are to take me to a four star hotel. They are also the ones who will pick me past midnight and to take me to a drinking spree in Naivasha, where they proudly introduce to their friends as poko wangu ( my prostitute), or using some other funky name which hints at my trade. Their sex is rough and very experimental . These are the men who are most likely not to pay me, or under pay. But they are also who are most likely to pay me much more than the usual, and occasionally throw me a gift, never mind the not so sweet words and actions that accompany it.

Like some sort of bank, I need both of these customers. And overtime I have played my cards well so that I really don’t have to choose between the two. But today I have to make a decision. Earlier in the week one of the cool guys, picked me and later fixed a date with me for today. Then yesterday one of the roughs passed by and said he wants to show me the world today. Despite their shortcomings I need to keep both of them.

At the face of it, it might seem an easy choice, apparently because many believe we don’t have a work ethic. So I just go with one and then give a silly excuse to the other. Yet girls want to bring each other down here. So if I go with one of the men, then the other comes and ask for me, the girls will tell. And don’t believe what men say, even in the comments here, they actually get their egos hurt when a prostitute slights them. So the man I ignore wont be happy. He will just pick me one more time to satisfy his ego, then never see me again. In times like these every man counts.

Anyway I will see what to do. It looks like it will rain today, and hopefully one of them wont turn up.Luckily I no longer have a business telephone number.

To all who answered my questions thank you so so much. I really appreciate. I will be replying and commenting on them soon. Do have a lovely weekend.

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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Episode 45: The Present Tension
The Street is an ecosystem of sorts. Though not delicate everybody who is part of it knows the importance of maintaining its balance. The Street ecosystem looks more like a union of the low of society. Low in terms of income, power and perceptions. There are the Street people and children. There are also the watchmen and late night hawkers. Then there are the clients and us. Others who form the ecosystem include the city council askari and police who we consider parasites.

Its we girls who give meaning to the Street at night. Without us Koinange would be just like any other lackluster city street in dark. All those cars which drive past would not be there. The odd hour hawkers would have nobody to sell to. The watchmen, with nothing to excite them, would be like the many others in the city, sleepy and with no drive. Thus one would expect us to be at the top of the Street hierarchy, but we are not. At the top are those who feel the Street belongs to them. The competition here is between the Street people and the watchmen. The former feel more ownership because apparent

Nairobi nights

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Nairobi Nights
By Sue: The Kenyan prostitute building a brand.

Monday, July 9, 2012
Questions Answered

Anybody still visiting this place? Okay I have been away for a while. Long story as usual. Here I am giving some quick answers to questions asked. I will post answers several times this week. Some of the questions may be outdated by now, but I will answer them nevertheless.Questions are reproduced exactly as asked.

1.Hi Sue, how comes kenyan women find the courage to go to the streets yet there are very few with enough courage to join sites connecting them with men that pay for the service or maybe there is another arrangement for them to make cash? – doug

My first concern would be privacy. The chances of a family member or friend getting me on Street are lower than of them finding me on an escort site, with a photo of me displaying my whatnot so as to win customers. Then again if we met on the Street the matter would end there. I mean if he is out there looking for a prostitute he would have no moral right to judge me for being one.

I would never know the identity of the people viewing me on an escort site and well how can I duck and hide like it happens on the streets at times ? So my amorous cousin or neighbor could see me on a site and start talking behind my back. And if asked “What were you doing visiting an escort site?” He will gladly answer “Actually I didn’t visit the site, some pervert tagged me on Facebook.” Nowadays that is enough explanation.

2. Are there prostitutes who have undergone female genital mutilation and if so how do they cope on the streets since they cant enjoy sex fully? – Big Fan Mariam

Yes there are. Not that I have seen them naked but they talk about it without regrets , and keep repeating as if in pride, as if it makes them tougher women . As to how they cope, well the main purpose of this business is to sexually please a man and not oneself, and earn money while at it. So many times I have pleasured men without feeling a thing myself. Yet there are men whose pleasure is not complete unless the girl seems to be enjoying herself. For those a girl can always fake or act in other ways that compensates her FGM short coming.

On the other hand it’s a plus if you mix business with pleasure; enjoy sex while still making men ecstatic and getting paid for it. But if one cant for reasons beyond their present control, say FGM or boredom, one doesn’t get depressed; she just reminds herself why they are on the street in the first place: money. Okay who is the god? Money is. What is money? Money is the god. My orgasm is not.

3. Can a white girl make it on the streets of Nairobi? And can you make it in Europe? – Johnnie

Sure, a white girl can make it. Never mind the roughness here. Every street girl anywhere in the world has an in built system to handle that. Haven’t you seen it in movies and James Hadley Chase novels? Would she get clients? Definitely yes. Since my college days and up to now I hear men in Nairobi bad mouth white women .Saying all manner of things about their bodies, sex prowess or lack of it and so forth. Much of it is hot air. Few local men would turn down a white P. One explanation why men pay for sex is variety. A man will pick a white girl not for any other reason but discover how it is with such. Is it like in the movies? And of course sleeping with a white girl will make men acquire bragging rights. “I did it with a white woman and let me tell you…..” . Interestingly for reasons unbeknown to me the number of white prostitutes in Nairobi is increasing. White will soon be the new Ethiopia.

For the same reasons above I am sure to make it in Europe. The main draw back may be the laws and generally the system there which I may take time to understand but eventually I would hack it. That said I believe it’s easier for a white girl to make it on the streets of Nairobi, than for a black girl to succeed on the Avenues of Luxembourg. Or is it?

4. What will you name your child, if you ever get one? – Nenda

Not sure. If a boy definitely not John, probably Tonka Zan, Brutus (Popeye) or something of the sort. If a girl I would come up with my own name whose meaning I would assign. I d prefer a name made only
of consonants.

5. Which of the present presidential candidates will you vote for? – J K

Given a choice none. They lack the glow despite their cash. But I have no choice and I got to vote. As for who, the less said the better.

6. Why don’t you reply to email? – Marto

I try to. Or used to. Of late I have been away from email for a while but I am back and digging in to reply to everyone who has dropped me a note .Considering the pile it may take a while though.

7. Do you think men love sex more than money? Why ay for it when they can get it free of charge from their wives? – Eric

No I think men love cash more. Several men have disrupted a session just because they had to rush somewhere to ‘fix a deal ‘. I believe for both men and women sex is a means not an end to anything. Money and power give more pleasure to human beings than sex, or so I think. Paying for sex is a cog in the wider money making scheme. At times sex relaxes men and helps them focus on their goals. Would a man choose 20 million shillings or doing it with Beyonce? I think the former. I would choose the former too if its Jay Z in the picture.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Less Than 500 For 24 Hours & Other Questions Answered..
Here I answer a few questions. I reproduce questions as asked.

1. Where do i get a cheap hooker in nairobi? Ha! Although the cost of sex is not directly proportional to the cost of living, that’s a long shot, and maybe ‘exploitation’! Then again more than before girls are learning how valuable their bodies are and peg prices accordingly. Of course you can still get girls for Ksh.50 for a short time. But less than 500 for a whole day and night, well a not so professional girl. Then again if a girl agrees to do less than 500 for 24 hours then you better think again, she may be having an ace up her sleeve. Unless of course you are giving something more than money, say some love. Anyway you can try Snack, that bar at the entrance of Mlango Kubwa if they are still open.









2. Can you post a pic of your pussy only? – Dzeko









No, I wouldn’t do that. And after all you have probably seen a look a like somewhere. The difference is not in the appearance of the pussy, but what a girl can can do with it. Or better still what a man finds inside.









3. hello sue, why not surrender ur life to Christ and repent from this evil way, have been in Nairobi the street that you mention I know it very well, please you still have a chance and total surrender ur life to Christ today.those who do this work they end it up in the grave and when they die they go to hell. and where is the money? the money also perish aswell.today is ur day tomorrow may be too late 4 you. Jesus Christ loves youBro. Emmanuel from Germany..









Brother thank you for your concern. Like I said before I believe in God, what we may differ on is the definition of good and evil. And also God’s purpose for every human being. I am yet to discover His purpose for me, but seeing how mysterious God is I wouldn’t be surprised if I am not actually lost.









4. Hi Sue .Just out of your experience on the street have you met girls who are desperate to get off the street …or some who had to be high to be able to have sex with a client? Also would you know or suggest ways they can get a helping hand to get themselves off the street? or at the very least tell their stories? Just so you get an idea of what I mean watch this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpqRBG_98









– Josephine









First I confess my connection is not very good, and so I have not watched the song. But I will make a point of doing it. Yes there are girls who are desperate to get off the streets. You see the circumstances of each girl are different. Some are pushed to the Street in rough quick way, without time to think of it. Then there are girls who come willingly but are not able to physiologically adapt to the ‘harshness’ here; the insults and madharau. So they stick in desperation, wishing there could be a way out..all easier said than done…They end up staying, they become hardened and the desperation to leave is no more. The focus then is on The Jackpot, that will transform their lives. The large amount of money they will legally or otherwise get from a man. Or the European guy who will marry them. But one may never hit The Jackpot. Prostitution then becomes their career until. Yes until.









Being high to have sex with clients is normal. Its not necessarily out of desperation but more because of what a high does. One is daring, can give a not so clean but loaded man a blow job, the time of his life etc. Still there are those who get high to ‘escape’ rather than boost the session as above. Needless to say a high eventually becomes a low, and if agirl was escaping the realities of her work then she finds herself in a worse position mentally. A position which can only be redeemed with a more potent drink, herb or powder.









Nowadays there are many organizations, ‘well wishers’ and church people who come to the Street to help anyone willing get off. I would hesitate before making such suggestions, at least not in a general manner.









5. Have you ever had to use saliver to wet ur vagina when u were not ariused enough to get wet?









Yes I have done it. While at the SJ I used to do it often. But it is not professional. Presently if I sense my body does not react to the arousal efforts of a man then I use a lube. Then again nowadays its not so much a turn off if you unleash KY, especially if you use it to give the man some pleasure too.









Still got tens of questions. I will answer some tomorrow and the day after. I may have inadvertly skipped some questions but I am going through everything and will answer them all.Keeping asking. And I am still working on the emails.





















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Friday, May 11, 2012











Not With Flowers But Our Thoughts











(This is from the May issue of Up Nairobi. Of course with an editor the voice and style is different. Between Monday and Wednesday I answer all questions, email and all else. And hopefully I will be gone forever)









“Some of the most vicious fights on the Street have happened when mothers are invoked. Say when a girl swears by her mother to teach another a lesson. Or when one insinuates that agirl has learnt the ways of the Street from her mother. The latter always results in a heated exchange which ends up in a physical fight. For mothers hold special places in the hearts of the girls here. Though common reasoning has it that a child’s upbringing influences her adulthood











decisions, the logic here is that being a sex worker is an own choice which has nothing to do with the parents. Girls tend to say “My mother gave her best but I made the final deci, then the blame is on the government and not the mother. And if not the government then the father is to blame.









Yet the male clients too don’t want to have their mothers dragged to the filth of the Street. Its always an ugly scene when a girl as much as suggests that a client’s mother has something to do with his uncultured manners, say his reluctance to pay or his use of demeaning language.









On the other hand as much as mothers are protected from the Street “My mother” keeps popping up in our conversations. Not so much in praise but in fear and anxiety. The fear of what would happen if our mothers came to know what we do for a living. And the anxiety of waiting for her next call, thinking that during the last visit one said and acted in a way that was contradictory enough to give her a clue of our true work, and not the hotel job one keeps telling her about. The anxiety is not expressed directly but more in efforts to bribe the mum to ignorance. For at the bottom of their hearts many girls suspect their mothers know what they do and are only giving a blind eye.









…….On the Street any day marking a special event or honoring a group of people passes without notice if it does not translate to any monetary gain. Mothers’ Day is no exception. But here we honor our mothers everyday. Not with flowers but our thoughts. Read the rest here. ”









Happy Mothers Day.









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Tuesday, May 8, 2012











Up Nairobi:( Fun On The Street) and This and That









Wow! I have been away from the city, the blog and email. I have been hitch hiking around the country trying to ‘redefine’ myself. But here I am back with one foot on the Street andthe other everywhere. I admit that I missed the blog. Sometimes I feel like I know you as close friends. Somehow offline I am not able to talk the same way I do here.Okay forget that.









Now I still had a few posts I had planned to write before I disappeared. I will try write them. There are also so many loose ends to the ends to do with the blog : Questions I needanswered, promises I need to keep, I owe a number of people some things etc. I plan to do all that. And my email! Its overflowing but that’s what I will work on in the next few days.









I still write a monthly article for Up Magazine. Here is an excerpt from the April issue. The style maybe a little different, and the copy cleaner, of course because there is an editor at work.









….Attention people of Nairobi! The Street is not only about gloom and doom; there is also fun and laughter. Those who have passed along the Street when we are on duty must have heard of our loud, unrestricted laughter. The kind you only hear in Naija movies. A sound so different from the careful giggles of many in this city who act as if it’s against the city’s by laws to have a good hearty laugh. Our cackle tells you that we are ticking despite the many shortcomings of our work.









Of course of course I know some of you will claim that our laughter is hollow and even go ahead to quote the poet who said “we laugh to keep from crying.” But there you get it wrong. We are genuine. And after, all isn’t our business that of looking at the nakedness of human beings, physically, emotionally and otherwise? Is there anything much more fun than that? Read the rest of the article here









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Tuesday, March 27, 2012











Questions Answered











I am still around ‘concluding’. So today I answer some questions as asked by readers…









I reproduce the questions exactly as asked.









1. Considering your work , do you have any unfulfilled sex fantasies? – Max









Who doesn’t? Yes I have. The Street does not necessarily give you the opportunity to fulfill all your sex fantasies, for truth be told fantasies are a little weird and their appealis when they remain fantasies rather than realities. That said I have fulfilled some of my fantasies. I have seen men fulfill theirs, and quite a number don’t jump in triumph after, they look dull.









2. Have You heard of Lisa sparxxx’s record? She has done the number U took years to in 60 seconds (pun intended) My question is how do You regard Yourself with respect,dignity,r humanity when other Men use U’r body for masturbation? Finally I have noticed that You have managed to change the view of prostitution somewhat based on an analysis of comments so has Your readership changed You?









Yes I have heard about Lisa Sparks and her record of having sex with about 1000 men in a day. Bet I am doing good. Anyway five in a day is usually on the higher side of me so I cant even imagine about 30 men an hour.









I still regard myself with dignity. If I lost self respect then that would be the end of me. I see everything mostly as my choice. And with that I make the choice not to lose senseof myself despite the many things that work towards crushing my dignity. And men using my body for masturbation is the last thing that would make me lose my dignity. I take it positively; like a sort of complement of my body.









I certainly can’t assume the effects of my readers on me. Although I interact with men everyday in their most naked form, there is something about the anonymity of the internet that shows another side of people. I dare say I have learnt a thing or two, though not surprised, by what my readers say.









3. Are you A Kikuyu? If not, what are you? – Giggs









Ha! I am tribe less! Why did you think of Kikuyu first? I have previously given a big hint of what tribe I am , but then again I have a little of several tribes.









4. Do you sometimes shift to places like mombasa,narok…name them,when there is a romour that there is alot of money circulating on those sides,for example tourists,bumper harvest…? – Gidi









No, I have never done that though its something I really wanted to do but kept procastinating . My particular interest was Narok and Malindi…well well I think retired or not I will do visit…









5. Are there Man Prostitutes in the Street? If so, Are there women who come to pick up Man? – Giggs









Yes there are now male prostitutes along Koinange. These serve both men and women. But rarely do women come to pick male prostitutes from the Street. I think its for the reason there are many safe and decent grounds to hunt for a man. The male prostitutes on the Street are increasing at a very fast rate, and I guess eventually there will be some sort of turfwar.









6. Hey sue..What was the longest time a man went without Cumming? When was the Lowest time? If your not sure can you estimate.- Mario









Ha, the longest time is never because there are men who cum at all. The shortest time is seconds, because there are those who ejaculate as soon as they are in. However realistically I have done a half an hour plus with a man. When the man is sober and looks okay I always wonder if his going beyond the average duration is a commentary of my skills or my organ. Of course of course there are many unseen reasons which can affect, e.g Stress..









7. Hey Sue, keep it up! My biggest problem is: what makes women steal from a client? My friend recently took a mama home while very drunk and she stole several items in the morning, including petty things like foodstuff plus mobile phones. The guy says he could have just given her the food stuff if she had asked for it. Weirdly, she left lots of expensive stuff behind.









Like I mentioned before the motivation for stealing is different for each girl. There exists the underlying mistrust between us and clients which would make asking for such basics not convenient. And what would a client think of me if I asked for cooking oil or maize flour? That’s a possible red flag; here is a possible thief. And what would it do to my ego to go begging for such? Not to glorify stealing but when one picks from a man the ego is raised and their sense of achievement. It feels better than having to beg for food. In our kind of work its dangerous to have ego issues; you will not only achieve less but hate yourself, the world in addition to feeling ‘useless’.









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Thursday, March 22, 2012











On Winding Up The Blog









Yesterday was my last night on the Street. I am out of there completely. However I am not out of the sex business, at least for the next one month or so. As for the blog I will just finish answering the questions and do one final ‘behind the scenes’ post. Starting today I will reorganize/redesign the blog a little; make it much more ‘prettier’ or ‘uglier’ ; give some posts a permanent place and some more prominence.









I will hang around even after the final post because there are some people are working on a few products based on the blog content. Looking at my notebook there are many more dispatches from the Street I would have written, but then time has caught up with me. Maybe later I will be giving quick snippets of such here. I am fixing a collection of all the Episodes. I hope to find a way to make automatic downloads of such possible. All my ebooks whether free or for sale will now be hosted here. The Hook Up section will be here for linger.I might also retreat and do a complete book. Once the technology issues are resolved I will continue with the seminars. And yes I am still determined to reply to all the emails however backdated they are.









Too bad I won’t stick up to Episode 69 as I would have wished. Thanks all for reading, the comments, criticism , praise and all.









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Friday, March 16, 2012











Episode 62: Random Thoughts On Our Industry









I told another group that the sex trade is up there with production houses, publishers and Hollywood, because we are all in the entertainment industry. The girl on the Street is now shoulder to shoulder with Avril, Muthoni the author and Tanya. We are all entertainers. Or is it?









Gone are the days when a man would come to the Street just for a quick sex fix because he couldn’t get some elsewhere. Now the man comes as if he is going to a concert, you know y.Nowadays its default. Even downtown where sex was so business like I hear a bj is increasingly becoming the norm. My days at the SJ I dared not allow a man to touch my boobs duringa short time. But I hear things have changed there too.









In music and publishing they talk of voices, beat, content and style when listing things that differentiate artists. Successful artists are those who choose the right mix of those.the City’s brothels it’s the norm. Like I said we know girls who specialize in anal, threesomes and the increasingly in vogue BDSM. Yet men coming here wont state openly what they want. And the girls won’t say what they specialize in. So when the girl gets in the car the man will say “Do you do anal? I want anal”









“No, I don’t” a girl may answer. “But I know someone who does. I can get her to you at a small fee” And so it happens.









In publishing a book may become timeless. See Shakespeare and Albert Camus. In music it’s a bit tough; a musician has to keep reinventing himself or herself lest they fade away. It’s the same with us. When one joins the Street one packages herself as young and fresh. But after a year the young and fresh can’t sell anymore so one talks of being mature and fresh. Never mind the freshness may no longer be there. By the third year when the strain of the Street is visible on the face and thighs freshness and maturity don’t sell. Experiencedoes.











Our sexuality is evolving. I guess triggered by the push by human beings towards comfort and happiness in every sphere of their lives. Of course the evolution is also triggered byour response to the many and easily available sexual information, stories, videos, photos, toys and whatever else. Certainly the body and the brain respond to these. And the barriers to entry being less in the sex industry than in music or publishing, there will be many who join to satisfy the demands of the evolving sexuality.









So the sex industry is becoming bigger and competition stiffer. The mayor estimates there are 21000 sexual acts in this city every night. If each is worth Ksh. 1000 then we are talking of Ksh.21000000 a night or 0.6 billion in a month. Quite some dough. Yet many in the country want us to remain underground, just like the drug industry. I don’t want to digress to that argument now but in a recent comment someone said the undoing of the sex industry is that it’s associated with bad elements; the drug barons, robbers and others who get akick from having girls as part of their networks or hovering around them a la Hugh Heffner or Al Capone. So he argues legalizing prostitution will not make it easy for the government to fight these evil citizens. You know a prostitute with her rights protected will not just be searched by a male policeman and drugs found in her handbag or better still in her panties or between her buttocks. She will demand a search warrant, and meanwhile hide the drugs, gun or whatever. I have problem with this line of reasoning but won’t go into it at the moment.









Back to the sex entertainment business. There are girls and men who are now choosing sex work as a career. The old argument that one gets into the work because of poverty is becoming increasingly outdated. Of course there are many who are in the work because of their poor circumstances but there are others who are educated with other options and opt to make a career out of sex, literally. Didn’t you hear Daughtie talk of our bodies, our choice?









As a country we are starting to acknowledge the entertainment value of sex more. Nevertheless we are still behind as compared to the western countries. Just look at our online pornofferings which are just obvious depictions of what we do in private. Nothing really creative or imaginative. But we keep watching them hoping for something to excite us in a different way. Where are the local erotic books? I have heard of none since David Maillu and Love For Sale. Where are live cam girls and men who you can give orders? Where are the dancing shows? Where are the sex games? I have heard of a few of these, and hopefully we will get there. The fact is that the demand is amazing and someone will come in to fill it.









The publishing, movies and music industry are facing the problem of piracy. At least you can’t pirate sex per se. But the competition and pressure to remain on top is enormous. Only the very creative and innovative will survive. And only those who make themselves known, or brand themselves in a way or another will go beyond the average one hour gig.









I don’t feel too good quitting when things are starting to get interesting. Maybe I should just reinvent myself and remain in this segment of the entertainment industry which is said to tear the moral fabric of the society.









Now I decided I have no business match making. So for all with such requests I have opened a hook up section where you can list who and what you want or looking for, and you are brls, I will be in touch.























Somehow today things are slow, and I am taking it easy. I will catch up with quite a number of my emails . Do have a lovely weekend.









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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Episode 29: The Street Badges

Like other industries ours too has best practices. One of these involves how we sell ourselves to clients. Best practices demand a girl sells herself by focusing on her personal strengths rather by pinpointing the weaknesses of a colleague. A girl should not act like politicians who win by degrading and mudslinging opponents. Though there is no definite punishment for going against the best practices, doing so comes with consequences.

Two or so weeks ago a white man came driving some not so good looking car, but girls here think white is gold, it matters little how the white is packaged. So three other girls and I crowded the car. Among them was Mariam; a woman who somehow seems out of place on the street. She is relatively older and acts rather mature. Mariam is one of those considered pillars of the street; she is polite and careful with her words. She dishes these random pieces of advice to girls. And among all of us, she seems the most focused and organized. Mariam is very pretty, but has a problem speaking proper English. However considering the nature of our business, that has never been a handicap, actually in some circumstances it is a plus.

The white man seemed interested in Mariam, who was on the driver’s side. She was speaking in her smooth Swahili and the man was enjoying; like most of the white men who come here, he had an odd looking, never ending sheepish smile. Then I did something girls don’t do. I competed by bringing Mariam down. I was broke and had partaken some strong drink. I didn’t care for best practices. “She is fat” I shouted, as if being fat was a bad thing. The white man looked at me, more in surprise than appreciation. Miriam is not necessarily fat, bet she has the right amount of weight. And even if she was, there are men who want such ladies. I said it in bad taste. Miriam forgot about the white man, and came blazing to where I was.  Within minutes I was on the ground, there was no way I could fight her. She beat me almost senseless. The girls didn’t try separate us, perhaps they thought I deserved it.

I was out for some few days. When I went back, head down in shame, I apologized to her, blaming it on alcohol. And as the rule in such situations, I topped my apologies with some small monetary compensation. We are now in good terms, but I have a small scar on the back of my shoulder; a badge of shame.

I have another badge. When I first came to Koinange Street, I tried to be the people’s person. Trying to be nice and polite to every of the girls. It didn’t take me long to realize that was of no use in a very individualistic and competitive environment. In the eyes of the other girls I looked stupid. And yes, I saw the looks when a man picked me and later heard their scathing remarks. Who did I think I was to go round being nice to everyone?

I shed the Miss Good image, and became more acceptable. I could gossip and take sides in arguments rather than be the girl in the middle who giggles sheepishly. Most importantly I could hate. Whether my feelings of hatred were real or not mattered little; the important thing was that in my eyes and those of the other girls I was becoming street worthy. Yet I didn’t have what is unofficially perceived as the street badge of honor.

There is no girl on the street, however good, who is loved by all the rest. Everyone has an ‘enemy’, and as they say in those hip hop songs, having an enemy is a sign of success; something to be proud of.  I knew there were girls who disliked me and openly called them enemies, though I never actually considered them as such. Yet in moments of extreme pressure and competition say as a result of poor business or strong drink I became a little eccentric and  took the fight to my  so called ‘enemies’ . At such times a slight excuse was reason enough to pick an oral fight with the ‘enemies’.

However oral fights can only last as long. The main victim of my insults was a short, stocky girl called Caro. My issues with her started when I was told, by another girl, that she was going around saying I was a cheap prostitute who had been practicing at the Sabina Joy but now  had the guts to go snatching men from the street. Thinking of it now, there was some truth in her statement. But I was not to take it lying down. I confronted her, and that was the start of months of exchanging words.

One evening I was drunk and as she passed near where I was standing, I said “Seems today men have rejected you” or something to that effect. As tradition I expected her to insult me back. But that time round she looked at me for a second then slapped me with her thick hand. A slap begets a slap. I slapped her back. In a few minutes we were rolling on the ground. She was stronger and heavier than me. I was drunk and my punches weak. She beat me proper before we were separated. I still have a scar on the neck from that fight. Though I was beaten I consider it my street badge of honor.

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Things here and there in my life. Somehow I can’t think straight. I will do one more post this week before taking a short break out of this town.

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Monday, May 9, 2011
Episode 28: Sue – More Than Just Sex
Competition in our industry has become very stiff. The competition has been driven by an oversupply of the services we offer. This is not necessarily because more girls are joining the trade but more as a result of having a few of the trade’s stabilizing dynamics disrupted. A key variable in our industry is time. The fact that there are girls who only operate during the day, and others during the night makes sure there are only enough of us at any particular moment. With the introduction of the alcohol law which requires bars to be opened at 5pm during weekdays and 2pm on weekends, the timing has been messed up with. There are tens of girls who used to operate from different bars in the city during the day. Now they have to reschedule their work hours, burdening the night.

Distribution has also been upset. This has to do with spread of the girls in different parts of the city. When a den is permanently closed it affects distribution because girls move to other open venues, which might be in a different side of town. The area around Luthuli Avenue and River Road has served a crucial role in balancing the downtown and uptown Nairobi prostitutes allotment. But in the last few months misfortunes have been hitting that area. It started with the closing down of Eden which I hear has been turned to a shopping complex by the new money in town, then Good Hope burnt down. Some hardened girl who changed base to the street the other day, told me Safaricom House was closed a week or so ago. This is not the one along Waiyaki Way but the alias of a lodging cum brothel along Luthuli Avenue.

There are now more girls coming to the Koinange side of town. Most are not newbie but toughies shifting base .The immediate effect has been to exert a downward pressure on price. But what I find to be a more grave consequence of the influx (never mind that’s where I started) is the loss of what was left of the Koinange panache: the impression that we girls on the street are cleaner, more decent, open minded and sophisticated than the girls downtown; but still with the prostitute feel which most of the girls in up market brothels have lost. Pretence is a crucial part of our business on the street. Pretending to have swag even when in real sense its non existent. The faking commands better prices and helps protect the image of the street. The toughies from downtown are brutal in their dealings, dressing, talk and negotiations making nonsense of the economies of location.

On the other hand there are some few fresh girls who have joined us. These are the extremes of the downtown girls. They have so much style, its intimidating. Whereas the rest of us still call men honey, sweetie and babe, the new girls are using words normally using new pet names of Pretty, Sweetness and the likes. Words common everywhere, but the street. Two of them, suave and young sell themselves as a package, so that a man cannot pick one and leave the other. And that at a discounted price. I feel such girls should not be along Koinange, but some lane in Westlands, Parklands, Kileleshwa or some other such place. That is a hint of the tension that is starting to build here. There are those of us who feel we own the street, and we ought to chase all these new comers and reclaim our fast fading glory.

I have to admit that I have not been very innovative when it comes to selling myself. I just parade, smile, mention a word here or there and hope a man will pick. More or less it worked. Nowadays though, the magic seems to have gone. As concerns my marketing efforts starting this blog is the most innovative thing I have done. And though I have generated business from it, I have to confess its always awkward, uneasy and a little complex for both the man and me. Bet it’s because I feel such men know so much about me that I don’t fully relax. The men for a reason or another don’t seem at ease. Though I didn’t want my brand just to be only about sex for cash, I have to overcome those shortcoming and reservations; be easy and make my readers at ease as to enjoy sessions with me. (I will write more about this when I do a post reviewing my brand building efforts in the last four months.)

Meanwhile I have to be innovative on the street. I toyed with the idea of role playing dressing. You know I dress like a nurse or policewoman. The nurse seems exciting and I will see what to do about it. The other idea is to offer a package; something more than sex. For instance sex and talk. Where sex is accompanied by a tell it all session. Previously I have smoothly been able to make men talk about their work, fear, hopes, and problems. While men may not take my suggestions I note they feel good when I listen and seem genuinely interested in their lives. But the short time between a car stopping and a man picking me is not enough to let a man know that I will offer sex and a listening ear. I am thinking of printing business cards with my number, email, website and catchy slogan of what I offer. Sue: More Than Just Sex or Sue: The listening pleasure…something in those lines..

A major marketing hitch in my kind of business is that word of mouth doesn’t seem to work. I have never slept with a man who has been referred to me by another man. I suspect some men don’t want to be known they sleep with prostitutes, which is okay, while others want to spare the marvelous prostitute for them.
Getting repeat customers can also be problematic. Not long ago after a very good session with a man, I said to him.”Will you come back to me ?”

“Why should I? he asked.

“I thought you enjoyed”

“I did, but I don’t visit a prostitute twice.”

I smiled. But it hurt.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Episode 27: No Dim Candle Lit Room
Many men are attracted to picking girls from the streets because of the freedom to choose where to have sex with them. For unlike girls in downtown bars and brothels who insist on having sex in-house; in stuffy rooms and tattered mattress, the girls on the streets are more risk inclined as to go where a man wishes. Not that we have much choice. When I get inside a car I usually have no idea where a man will take me. It may sound stupid, but it’s a foolishness I charge a premium price for. A man may consider such factors as cost, privacy and convenience in determining the destination.

Men don’t say where they are taking me until I ask. Their assumption maybe that a girl on the street is ready to go anywhere. Perhaps they also fear a girl may change here mind if told of the destination. True there are places a girl would be uncomfortable going to. For instance near a neighborhood where she stole from a client. Also in a hotel where she was short changed, created a scene and embarrassed the hotel. There are also men who love going to a prostitute’s house. This perhaps is driven by the image of prostitutes in movies; husky voiced, cigarette smoking women, living in dim candle lit rooms, with some erotica hanging on the wall next to the bed. The truth is girls here don’t live that way.

Most of the girls downtown live in congested neighborhoods which are slightly above the state of slums. If you asked a girl at the Sabina Joy where she comes from the answer would be Kayole, Githurai, Huruma, Mwiki, Mathare North or Mlango Kubwa. If not that it would be a place like Gachie or Wangige. Few girls if any admit coming from the slums. To some extent it’s an ego thing, and to another it’s about what such a discovery may do to business; what with the stereotype of prostitutes and slum residents as thieves. A prostitute from the slums will not only be assumed to be dirty but also exhibiting the worst of prostitutes’ treachery.

Here on the street the opposite happens. Few girls admit to living in the estates where the downtown brothels girls live. Doing so would snatch the slight decency expected of girls on the streets. However in actual sense there are  some of my colleagues here  who live in such estates, even in slums. Though such low income places may offer convenience in terms of cost, they are a big inconvenience when it comes to the logistics of business. Life in such areas is characterized by arbitrarily police round ups, what is called msako. Woe unto you if you are caught in the msako when leaving for work. Besides the msako there is always a  high possibility of bumping into policemen on patrol. Police in such areas have a superiority complex which tries to exploit on the perceived inferiority of the residents. They are certain to arrest or harass you for no good reason. Thus if you live there you might be forced to leave home before dark for work. And if you work here on  the street where business doesn’t pick up till after eleven, there is just too much time to kill, time which could have better been spent sleeping.

A brighter move, and which many of us have adapted is to live, as we put it, near the money. Thus we pick relatively decent places, slightly expensive but with some comfort and peace of mind. After all, if you have to spend the night in cold, chasing cars and shouting honey then you need to enjoy the fruits of your labor in calm. So you will find a number of girls living in Pangani, Westlands, Buru Buru, Kariobangi South and Kiambu town. At times two or three girls will come together and rent a two or one bedroom house in an up market place.

I live in a bed-sitter in Pangani. It takes about twenty minutes or so to get to town, and I can leave or get in the house at anytime. I guess none of my eleven neighbors knows what I do for a living. Although the watchman may have a clue because of my odd hours ,he doesn’t ask any questions. I like it that way, having to live without announcing to everyone what I do for a living. I love the beauty of living alone. The joy of those moments when I stagger home towards daylight and crash on the bed, or those times when I am seated on the floor of the toilet vomiting as a result pf a bad hangover. No matter how the night has been, I usually find solace in my house. It is a special place, sacred in its own way. And for that reason I made a rule to preserve it only for myself . But rules get broken.

The duration between 3.45am and 5am in the morning is one of desperation. If a man hasn’t picked you by the time, then some despair sets in. That does not mean a girl cannot be picked within those hours, she can, but the quality of men who visit the street at that hour is not the best. Most have been partying all night long, are drunk, demanding and hard to negotiate with. The sober ones are likely to be with emotional problems and rather unpredictable. If there be a serial killer hour, then that is.

Sometime ago a man picked me in his car a few minutes after four. He was in a suit, good looking and sober. He told me he was from outside Nairobi. He was on a business trip but booked  in a hotel with his family . He said he only had a thousand on him, not enough to book a room and pay me. Could we go to my house and at the end of it give me the whole amount? he posed. I didn’t think of it twice. I was financially cornered. I said yes, reasoning one man would make no difference.

We had a twenty minutes session. Dressed up he said he couldn’t find the money in his pockets, and then pulled one of he oldest tricks in the book. “I left the money in my car” he said. I followed him to the car which was parked outside the gate. I stood a short distance away. I watched him bend over as if looking for the money under his seat. Then all at once the engine started, and he was gone before I knew it. I wanted to shout thief and have him stopped before he accessed the main road. But I held my breath. Even if he was stopped someone would ask:” What has he stolen?”

Never again have I serviced a customer in my house. And never will I..

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Episode 26: An Allergy To Rubber & Other Latex Anecdotes

My first ever client wore two condoms. He had voluntarily worn one but I had insisted he insert a second. This was as a result of intelligence I had gathered from Njoki, a girl I had befriended, and who had been at the Sabina Joy (SJ) for years. According to her a girl could not risk sleeping with a man who wears a single condom. “What if the condom tears?” she asked. This was the Njoki who recited Yeats and whose experience and perceived brains were impossible to ignore, especially as an anxious novice. So there I was lying on a tattered mattress in a stuff dimly lit room, telling a rather drunk man to wear an extra condom or bounce.  Of course he protested claiming I was giving him a raw deal, but too bad for him, he had already paid for the room and walking away would have meant him losing Sh200. As he penetrated me I was dealing with the relief of at last doing something I never imagined I would do and the discomfort of too much rubber.

Word spreads fast at the SJ and it didn’t take long to know I was not endearing myself to men by always insisting on the double potion of condoms. Also after some research on my own I realized using two condoms may actually have been doubling the risk rather than the protection. So I went easy on it. That said the number of men who wanted raw sex; kanyama as they called at the SJ, was amazing… A man would ask to have unprotected sex with me, and if I asked why his answer would be a vague statement like “That’s what I enjoy”. Unlike on the streets where monetary gains may tempt a girl to have raw sex, at the SJ there were no such incentives. At times a man would try to penetrate me without a condom and if I alerted him to it, he would pretend to have forgotten. That however was a ridiculous excuse because the condoms would be lying on the bed for him to see. Yet what perplexed me most those initial days was why anyone would decide to have unsafe sex with a prostitute. It’s a puzzle I have never solved to date.

The sex at the SJ was no frills. This made it impossible for men to trick me to having unprotected sex. You see the short time sex at the SJ follows a very predictable pattern: You smile at man. He smiles back. If he is at a distance you wink. He comes over to you. Twende shortie you say. The man asks how much. Two hundred. If he agrees he goes to the reception and pays Sh200 for the short time room, and gets a pack of condom wrapped in tissue paper. Both of you queue awkwardly outside the short time room where there is always a couple inside. If those inside the room stay for more than five minutes, you start intensely knocking the door until they get out. Once inside you ask the man for your fee. Money in hand you lower jeans, lie on the tattered mattress, apply some saliva on your P and wait for the man. If he makes as if to touch your breasts and all or ask for funky styles you turn him down; money and time are not enough for the extras.

On the street nothing is as predictable. The venue of the sex is an unknown just as what will happen when there. Since on the street I charge a premium, I am more flexible and give or act as if to give my all. Still a number of men have tried to penetrate me raw, especially when I am on my fours. Some wear the condom then try to remove it. But I am always alert and none of those odd men have succeeded in their trickery. There are other men who will offer me extra cash in return for kanyama. In such circumstances I, and most girls, decide what to do based on individual greed, desperation and need for money.

As much as the effects of a an ailment such as AIDS may be more adverse on me than say pregnancy, like most girls I am equally worried about getting impregnated by a random customer. Most of the girls practicing in places like the SJ or on the street, and who have children are proud to pin point the father. In most cases the father is a boyfriend in their neighborhood. (Yes, many girls have boyfriends.) . In cases where the father is a client then it one of those they have built a special relationship with. While at the SJ I believed a condom could protect me more from disease than from pregnancy. No wonder I got pregnant despite my being extra careful. I have never understood how it happened. But luckily or unluckily something came up in the early days of the pregnancy and I didn’t carry it to full term. And no, I didn’t abort.

There was another time when I had a pregnancy scare. A man picked me from the street around 4 in the morning. He was fairly drunk and so I was. We went to a hotel within the CBD and had this rough sex. Either he didn’t wear the condom properly or climaxed and continued thrusting, but somehow the condom came out. I only realized when we were done.  I was not very polite with him and used some choice words to express my disgust. He laughed, placed my fee on the bed and left. Such was a “Shit! I am a prostitute!” moment; a few seconds which reminded me straight on the face of my place in a righteous society. Anyway I didn’t want daylight to get me in town, so I left the hotel and went home with the condom stuck in me. I managed to remove the filthy thing. Though it was during my unsafe days, I was lucky again as I tested negative both for diseases and pregnancy.

Still on condoms, a man picked me one rainy night. He was not so good looking but quite polite.  We went to a hotel in the outskirts of town. Immediately we entered the room we were all over each other with kisses and touches.  When time came for the actual sex, he removed some cream from his trousers and gave to me. I thought it was a lubricant. “That’s a spermicide. I am allergic to rubber”. What! I looked at the packaging and instructions, sure it was a spermicide. There was even an applicator which I was to use to apply it inside me. “I will use it too “the man said. For a moment I was frustrated and confused. I was broke and needed the money. “What happens when you use rubber?” I get very sick. He looked and sounded genuine. “Are you married?” No. This broke my heart. He was a prostitutes’ man. “Will this protect me from infection?”  “I don’t know, but I have used it with other women and nothing bad has happened. Do I look like I can infect you intentionally?” There was a moment of silence. I then took the cream, squeezed and applied generously inside me. In silence he applied it on himself. We made love, nothing forceful, and nothing steamy. But everything mellow.

That was a few months ago. Nothing bad has happened to me.

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Monday, April 18, 2011
Episode 23: Are You Satisfied ?

At the face of all I need from a client is money. The cash lifts my spirits, but leaves me with some sort of emptiness when not coupled with a sense of satisfaction. The contentment I speak of is both sexual and psychological. I am used to living without the sexual pleasure. Sometimes despite giving my all sex feels like any usual physical exercise say walking. There is no thrill or a hint of pleasure. Initially the sex frustration used to disturb me. I remember in my earlier days on the street how I almost got depressed after sleeping with several men and not getting tickled the way I expected. With time I overcame the feeling. I realized in the process of making the psychological leap to prostitution, I had lost something, that which previously used to make me passionate and crazy about sex. Still this does not mean there are no moments when I enjoy sex. There are ecstatic and orgasmic instants. However I seem to have lost control of when and how I experience sexual bliss. My P seems to have charted its own course about this.

Then there is the issue of the psychological fulfillment after a session with a man .When I know I have given a man what he came to look for in me I get a big  moral and ego boost . A delight that makes me think I am still relevant on the streets. There are men, like I pointed out earlier, who come for the physical and others  the spiritual. And it is easy to know what a man is after. The duration between him picking me and getting to bed gives the clues; its in the talk, the driving and his eyes. The way he acts during the actual sex also hints at what he is seeking. Men who thrust as if they are trying to get something other than their semen out are not in for the physical pleasure alone.

The crucial point for me is after the sex. I see fulfillment, guilt, satisfaction, bliss, delight, disappointment, grief  among other things in the eyes of men. When a man requests to hug me after a session I feel good. When a man curses or says that was good I know he got what he wanted. A man who throws money at me rather than handing it over to me didn’t get what he wanted. There are all these small clues. Sometimes I will be courteous enough to ask a man whether he is happy with the service or not. But such a question rarely generates a honest answer.

When I have not satisfied a man I feel like I am losing my shine, which actually I might be. I will carelessly spend most of the cash I get from such a man. I will try, more than necessary, to prove myself to my next client, sometimes making mistakes in the process and losing whatever others think is left of my dignity.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
This And That

Well it’s been ages since I said a thing or two about the comments here. I will do it today now that my computer is still being repaired & with it stories I had planned to post. So I will answer some few questions, say something about others and highlight some of those I found really interesting.

For how long does a prostitute remain fresh on the street? What’s the optimal duration before she starts losing her appeal?  From my own experience I started feeling stale after a year. A spark was gone. Perhaps because within a year I felt the street had validated me. I had gotten the t-shirt. After a year I started getting occasional lapses in terms of make up, dressing and the morale to go to the streets. So what will happen to me if I stay on the streets for five years? In Episode 8: In Five Years Time an Anonymous crudely & perhaps rightfully so tried to capture how I would look after  five years on the street look:

…The thing about those prostitutes who have been on the streets for 5yrs is that it shows on their faces, kind of like the hard rough hands of a construction worker. They have experienced all kinds of shit, from the abuse of kanjo (City Council) who haul them onto the lorry for a free quickie to the mean bastard who picks them up and doesn’t pay me. Yes their pain is evident on their faces, their disgust, hate and rage. There isn’t any new line they can buy except to tell the men who pick them up…ripa mbere ya kura…March 4, 2011 3:47 AM
I will not allow myself to get to that.

In Episode 11: Of coming Out Of The Closet I talked about the pressure to come out in the open and my reluctance to do so. Well nothing much has changed regarding this. But I have met quite a number of people through this blog. As much as people promise not to stare at me as if I’m from Hell, or create a fuss, somehow they end up doing it. One person kept looking at me from head to toe despite us being seated in a restaurant. Another  kept asking me if I was full, as if she thought I was starving. A man was excited, overwhelmed, shocked or intimidated and he could not construct a logical sentence. Then there was the lady who had promised to meet me alone but came with a whole bunch of friends who sat a table away and tried o photograph me secretly. It’s all hilarious, but nowadays more than ever I am hesitant to meet anyone. However I am coming out in the open in other ways. With a podcast I will make my voice known. I am betting no one can identify me from the way I speak.

That said in a comment on the same episode Gwen asked …”Do you want to grow into the profession or something else entirely?…Do you ever get female clients?..”  To grow in the profession entirely I would need to re-launch myself every year. In the long run I will naturally fade so for now I am content in building a brand before I finalize my exit plan. As for female clients those are few and far. The mechanisms of girl on girl sex make picking a prostitute as a partner not the best of options. But yes there are still female clients, one of them notorious.

In the episode Wanja asked is Cheupe for real? Cheupe is the girl who came up with the idea of urinating in the city council vehicle. In my article in last month’s UP magazine I told of how she sold me fake sedatives. You can read the story here. Of course it  has an editorial touch.

Episode 14 was titled; Why I Chose the Street. A quick clarification the episode was not about why I chose to become a prostitute but why I decided to go to Koinange Street instead of being in some bar or brothel. Having confessed to spending some time at Sabina Joy, the notorious downtown bar cum brothel some I lost the respect of some people.

Wonderman said:

…At first I’d entertained the thought of sleeping with a prostitute (you basically) but when I think clearly, I know as you mentioned earlier in your blog-you got no conscience, and then it would be meaningless. Now you mention you’ve been to SJ? Damn!! You’re cut from the same cloth as all you night girls…”

And if you wonder why Wonderman will not sleep with me, a girl who has been to the SJ some Anonymous provided an answer which is a stereotype of what people think of the Sabina Joy:

….Those whores at SJ have stinking pussies..I doubt if they ever shower. I once took one home and when she unleashed her torn panty the smell that came out made me a celibate for the next two months…YIEW!!!What happens to some women down there. I imagine I know enough chicas who do not smell at all….but some, they smell like a rotten mouse… February 4, 2011 8:56 AM

I admit the SJ is in a class of its own when it comes to the girls and patrons. It has, successfully, branded itself as the number one destination for cheap rough & sweaty sex. Sex characterised by ambitions of sensuality which are never actualized. But personal hygiene is a girl’s own responsibility. True there are some, who are not the cleanest, but there are many who maintain a level of decency & they care about how they look and smell. And then men talk and girls listen. If you take time to sit and have a beer rather than rush for a short time, you will know who to pick or avoid.

But not everyone thinks girls who have been to the SJ are bad going with a question by an  Anonymous:

Will you marry me?  February 21, 2011 2:57 PM

I will, if you won’t seek to tame me.

In Part 2 of Episode 14, where I mentioned about writing for UP magazine, an Anonymous asked:
.. Just out of curiosity if you are writing on magazine like UP, ain’t you being paid enough to get of dangerous street well unless sex is your thing (addiction)
    February 7, 2011 3:34 PM

No, I am not addicted to sex. Indeed if a girl got to prostitution to satisfy a sex addiction she would be disappointed because there are many instances where the sex is not available, and less than satisfying when you get it.

Another Anonymous made a very critical observation…

….Its a mysterious world for some of us with boring routine lives and 8 to 5 desk jobs and weekends spent in front of the TV. Please try to be more vivid in you descriptions of your colleagues, encounters, the watchmen and bouncers etc. I’m curious to know the nature of these men. What state of mind is a man when he picks you up? Do you ever talk? You also haven’t answered yet why you chose the street. I’m also curious about your childhood and how you lost your virginity. What course did you do in college? Are your parents poor? Have you ever been in love? Do prostitutes get pregnant from their client or what do you do about birth control and how do you deal with STDs?

Quite some questions. I am a little hesitant in giving vivid descriptions of people or circumstances because if I did the posts would be too long and you won’t have the patience to read. I read blog posts should be short and not as long as this one. The day I make enough money to take a three months or so retreat from the city, learn a thing or two about writing, then I will do a book, and give much of the detail that I skim through. For now I have to keep doing quick posts. I have answered some of the queries in subsequent posts. As to whether my parents are poor, no they are not. And yes I have been in love. Also yes prostitutes do get pregnant from their clients.

Now some quick answers to a few questions which have flowed in through comments, Twitter, Facebook and Email.

Tamaku:  No ipod to listen to while client huffs away???!

And what will I would be listening to? Sexual Healing? But no music during sex, I need to show the man his huffs and heavy breathing are the best music I have ever listened to.

Anonymous: At what age did you lose your virginity?

16 years

Anonymous: Have you experienced any form of bestiality:

A: Yes of the handcuffs variety

Anonymous: Have you ever stolen from a client?

Yes…

I will write more soon…
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Episode 21: Role Playing

Most human beings have one form or another of eccentricities. However because we get to hear only of the oddities of the famous we think ourselves perfectly normal. Yet there are many things we do which may be considered as pecularities. But we don’t think of them as such because to us they are normal. Its debatable whether the word normal loses meaning when defined by an individual as opposed to the larger society. I have never thought any of my actions as freaky until some few days ago when someone suggested some of the things I do are strange.

Like everyone in college I had dreams of a good job. I used to very specific which particular companies I  wanted to work for. The first was Zimele Asset Management where I was to be analyst. The second was Safaricom where I imagined working in product development. Then there was Y & R where I figured I could be a copywriter. And there was the World Bank, there I was not sure what I wanted to do. By the time I got to my fourth year I had stopped dreaming. My dreams hadn’t been quashed but I had started developing some, let me call it open minded, philosophy. With the open minded thinking I felt, correctly or not, I had life by the balls.

A few weeks on the streets I started wondering, not in regret or remorse, what would have happened if I had ended up working in those companies. I became a little obsessed with the the thoughts. The result is that nowadays (& for the last two years), at least twice a month, I pretend or actually believe and as act as if I am not a prostitute. Such evenings I dress in what I think a female analyst at Zimele Asset Management dresses in. Then I go to the bars where I think she would have a drink. I sit there imagining  how my day in the office was, analyzing the money market and securities. When its Y & R I create and recreate advertisements in my head.

The days I pick to play these roles are random and on such  I don’t step on the street. Rather after a few drinks I go home to ‘prepare’ for the next working day. Its a rather costly exercise for me. The drinks the successful young working women take are expensive. The bars they visit classy, serene and comfortable places.( My favorite being off Waiyaki Way). I am blind to these costs and willingly spend. When the urge to become a product developer at Safaricom comes and I have no money I get into a state of frustration, I lose my concentration and become a little edgy. I am not able to summon the energy to go to the street until the urge disappears.

I know the role playing may sound futile and outlandish, but in the short list of things that make my life full it ranks highly. The first person I told about it was my gynecologist during my regular monthly check up last week. I mentioned it as a by-the-way. I was surprised by how shocked she was. She even suggested I should be seen by a psychiatrist friend of hers. I laughed. I have no mental problems. I know what I am doing & at no one time have I ever imagined it as bizarre.

Yet beyond the feeling of satisfaction I have no logical explanation for my acting. But this could be one of the things that beats logic. I am okay with the way I live presently. I don’t really aspire to live the lives I act. It’s not a fantasy but simply I am happy to experience the career life in my own way.

That said there are some complications with my role playing. Normally when I go to the classy places I sit alone smoking, taking some white wine or better still shots of  Jack Daniels. Of course as a copy writer I am thinking of the customer’s brief requiring an advertisement that resonates with men but doesn’t feature gorgeous women. But generally I want to avoid conversation. I am confident and knowledgeable enough to hold small talk about any topic but what if someone asks where I work and I mention a company where he or she works?  That however is a small matter, an awkward moment which I can get away with using some charm. The bigger risk is that under the influence of strong drink one says things they should not. And the more I drink the more my prostitution instincts become sharpened as much as I may wish to tame them in such situations….(Will continue with this…)

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( Well I know of late I don’t post as often as I used to do. One or two things. My computer almost died last week & its being resuscitated.  I am not very okay working from a cyber cafe. If I am to believe the technician the computer should be working by end of the day. Also I have been recording a series of podcasts, slightly different from the content of the blog because when talking thoughts & memories flow in a special way…I will have the podcasts ready soon..

As for me getting an editor, being more vivid in terms of setting and character etc, perhaps later in a when I can invest more time and money in this or if I ever decide to do something more concrete, say write a book. At the moment I am okay with the way the brand is growing. Thanks for all the comments, criticism, feedback and yeah business leads. I appreciate them all. )

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Monday, March 28, 2011
Episode 20 : My Fee

Men pay for sex with a prostitute as if paying for a commodity. But my ideal situation would be if they paid for the service the same way one pays for a work of art. Not necessarily a Dali or Wanyu Brush but an obscure artist whose abstract painting pierces the soul of the buyer. If that was the case I would have the same basis as great artists to charge high prices; not for the aesthetics of the art but for the inexplicable effect a work has on the soul. But the ideal is only a fantasy I dream of, as I live through a very different reality.

Pricing of commodities is a function of many factors but the key is the cost of production. Someone argued in one of the comments here that in my kind of work the commodity is naturally occurring and I should not price it. That however is a little simplistic. To start with it ignores the equivalent of the cost of mining; compensation for the psychological leap that is practicing prostitution. Then there are the obvious maintenance and packaging costs; buying clothes, making the hair, gynecologist charges and the likes, not forgetting the cost of transporting the commodity from the factory to the consumer. Perhaps I should state, hoping not to sound like Coca-Cola, I don’t sell my body, but happiness.

When I moved from the SJ to the street I set myself the standard fee to charge; Ksh.1,500 per session. Though a somehow arbitrarily amount I calculated it was enough to cover my costs and a fair price for what I was giving in return. However I soon did away with it. It was limiting. There were men who wanted to pay slightly less and I was shutting them out. And the others who wanted to pay more but were caged by my price.

Still naive, I then started charging on the basis of the car a man drove. But as I pointed out earlier the car a man drives is a very poor indicator of what he may pay a girl. Some of those who seem to have bought sleek cars through a formal career or clever business, are a little full of themselves, like they are running the world. They feel they have nothing to prove, and are actually doing me a favor. They pay what is a complimentary amount for the bother. But there are those with the expensive cars who seem to have made money the easy way; perhaps through deals, corruption or some other backdoor manner. These are generous with their cash and pay much more than what I ask for.

Those driving the lower Toyota , Nissan, Volkswagen and second hand BMWs ( The latter are indeed very interesting) are quite unpredictable. Some are on low budgets and cant pay a lot as much as they would like to. Others have this constant fear that they are being persecuted or exploited by the government and everyone else, so they are just tough with their cash. The second hand BMW types seem in doubt of their wealth, or more appropriately whether people recognize them as wealthy. They will pay relatively more and with some flamboyance, just to prove they are loaded.

Nowadays I gauge each customer differently. This is the best strategy. I use some simple indicators to know what to charge. For instance men who ask what my price is immediately I enter their car are not ready to pay much, so I quote a figure a little bit low. Those who talk much will definitely negotiate, so I quote a higher price to create room for negotiations. A customer asking when I would like my payment ; before or after the session is a hint to charge more. Why a man is sleeping with me is an important consideration too. Those who sleep with me for the spirituality will have no problem paying more, as  compared to those in it for the physical satisfaction. At one time I thought men appreciate girls who charge more because things classy come at a premium price, but then I realized many men want a prostitute for who they think she is; a lowly girl without social or moral inhibitions.

The much I have been paid per session is $150 ( plus other benefits), not so long ago by a man who flew all the way from Kampala to come spend the night with me at a $ 200 hotel in Nairobi. An exact opposite of Sylvester. I will mention it in my next post this week.

( Thanks for the best of blog votes. No worries about the competition. Winning just comes with recognition and some validation, values anyone building a brand will appreciate. And now that I seem to have figured the direction my brand will take, I appreciate them much more. Mmm this post could be a hint at the direction. )

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Monday, March 7, 2011
Episode 18: Sylvester

Every profession has an eleventh commandment. The one thing not in the rule book but which should be adhered to. The eleventh commandment though is not sacrilegious; it can be broken, but with heavy consequences. In our trade on the streets the eleventh commandment is never to fall in love with a client. When one falls in love with a customer so many things can be compromised, affecting the main reason for being in prostitution; making money. You can not for example steal from a man you love. Not that we are out to steal, no, but sometimes, like when dealing with a mean man, it maybe necessary. You can’t also negotiate steadfastly with a man you love. You are most likely to take the lowest offer or, as impossible as it may seem, give yourself up for free; after all that’s what people in love do.

People break the eleventh commandment in a moment of foolishness. But for us we might break the commandment not in a moment of folly but simply because we are human beings responding to a biological urge to be loved. When a man picks me from a group of girls, it means he appreciates me. Crudely you may call it lust, but the lust is generated by an appreciation of something I have. But it ends there. Only a rare man will love a prostitute. We are seen like public institutions; open to all, to be (mis) used until we run down. We know this and so we never go out with a man expecting him to love us.

However we may fall in love with a man. After seeing the best, worst and real of so many men, many of us believe we are experts in male psychology. Thus before a girl falls in love, much analysis has taken place in her head. Nevertheless like anyone else we make mistakes.

Sometime ago I met a man called Sylvester. It says a lot if I knew his name, for many men are hesitant to give prostitutes their name, and if they do, they pick a common place name like John or Peter. Anyway Sylvester picked me one night around 11pm. He looked in his early thirties. The first thing he asked when I got inside his Subaru was whether I was feeling cold so that he could heat the car. Then he asked whether I felt hungry. Simple obvious questions but they meant a lot. As we drove towards Westlands, where he lived in an apartment, he volunteered more information about himself. He worked as an engineer with a local mobile phone company, he had broken up with his girlfriend and he eventually planned to relocate from the country. Again obvious things, but how many men volunteer such information to us?

When we got to his house rather than hurry me to the bed with his hands all over me, he let me sit on the couch, brought some whisky, put some music and cracked jokes, about himself, his work and us. And when we made love it was sensual. Him concerned about how I felt.

And so Sylvester picked me several times and treated me the same way. Naturally I became very fond of me, like falling in love. We never negotiated the fee he was to pay me; he paid what he wanted which was always slightly above the market rates. Perhaps even if he had decided not to pay me, I would have been okay. I actually thought he was falling for me too. Occasionally he called me during the day or night just to know how I was doing.

One morning, two months or so after meeting him, we were in his house and he couldn’t locate his wallet so as to pay me. He searched for it everywhere, but still couldn’t get it. Then he grabbed me abruptly, his face with an expression I had never seen before. “You prostitute! Give me my wallet or I kill you.” I was surprised. I didn’t have the wallet. He then slapped and insulted me. He searched my small handbag, made me undress; put his fingers inside me but still no wallet. Eventually he kicked me out. I cried. Not because he had hit me or refused to pay, but because I was in love with him. I had thought him different only to discover he was like all the rest.

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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Episode 17: The Man In The Jalopy

There are those contradictory sayings about first impressions and judging people. For instance there is the saying first impressions are lasting impressions, and don’t judge a book by its cover. Perhaps its the realization that there cant be a universal way to judge a person that we have all these sayings. The environment and particular circumstances are key in determining whether to judge a person by the cover or not. How will a prostitute on the streets for example know whether a man is loaded or not?

At the heart of it, it doesn’t matter. As long as a man can pay my fee it matters not to me whether he is spending on me what he makes in an hour or a whole month. Sometimes its obvious a man is spending the last of his shilling on me, but well that’s his choice. As some other people would say generosity is not a function of how much one has, but the enormity of the heart;or stupidity.

Wordily logic, however, has it that the more one has; the more one is likely to give. From an economic view point, I tend to think everyone spends a similar proportion of their income on leisure; something like 20%. Certainly a fifth of a hundred thousand is more than a fifth of ten thousand. So a girl will wish to go with a man with more money;hoping the man will pay him extra. Of course it doesn’t always happen that way.

In the streets the way to judge how loaded a man is by what he drives. I  can’t  tell apart many models of cars but I can know an expensive car. Well there are girls who are experts. A seemingly expensive car will drive past and a girl will say ” That’s Japan not showroom.” Japan is cheaper. How they tell is beyond reason. But the car a man drives is not an absolute gauge of his well being. The car may not be his. This is somehow easy to know by the way the car is driven and the confidence of the driver.

High worth individuals, driving the fuel guzzlers, are able to make decision fast. They wont dilly dally picking a girl. Its as if their minds are already set. Such a man will stop a car, and as we crowd it, he moves his eyes from end to end then settles on a girl. A decisiveness which perhaps explains their wealth. Or perhaps they don’t want to be seen on the streets talking to prostitutes.

Those in the average cars will take hours to pick the girl. They have some misplaced excitement or perhaps are confused. They will stop a car, let the girls gather around, and like a king, Swazi king,  take their time to make their choice . Some will be lost in laughter as the girls sell themselves. They are problematic men.

Some months ago a rickety old car, which no one could tell what make it was, drove slowly along the street. When it stopped the girls thought it was due to a mechanical problem and no one seemed bothered, until the man removed his hand and waved, beckoning  a girl. I went.The man just opened the door. I got in and we drove to some hotel along Ngong road. To be on the safe side he was the kind of man I had to insist he pays me upfront. He gave me a $50 note for a one hour session and paid for my taxi back to town. I have neither seen the rickety car  again, nor its owner; a man not to be judged by the cover.

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Monday, February 28, 2011
Episode 16: Why I Became A Prostitute – An Attempt

Often I am asked by readers of this blog  why I chose to become a prostitute. And quite a number of times I have set out to write my reasons for choosing to engage in this particular kind of  pleasure business. In all the occasions I have stopped after the first few sentences; and this time too I might be in for another futile attempt. The question as to why I am a prostitute arises mainly from the fact that I have admitted to having a relatively good education, which according to many could be put to better use in  the loop; some formal 8 to 5 till 55 employment cycle, rather than in an illegal trade where the advantage of having read many books is hard to pin down. If like a number of my colleagues I had talked of having not more than seven years of education, a high school pregnancy or other such tale of woe and poverty no one would be asking why. However that is not the case.with me.

Many times when writing I am in a soul scratching state; and when writing about why I became a prostitute I find myself  not able to relate to tales of misfortune and a poor background. Its not surprising then, a few sentences later I realize I have no explanation that is  ‘acceptable’ or ‘good’. Yet society requires the choice of  prostitution as a way of earning a living to be justified, and not just by anything that comes out of the mouth, but by some very specific reasons. This is unlike in other careers, for instance accounting, where a generality like,” This is something I always wanted to do” sounds rich enough to explain professional choice . In prostitution such would hold no water, what with sex work being a ‘crazy’ high risk and ‘dehumanizing’ career.

So what led me to prostitution? The easiest thing for me to say is that after college I couldn’t get a job and with bills to pay I had no option but to sell my body. But that, to a large extent, is a lie. True, after college I didn’t immediately get a job, but so did many of my classmates, yet they did not jump to prostitution instead opting to survive and persevere until they got  ‘proper’ employment.  I also know I didn’t look for decent work hard enough. I only made some few applications and didn’t wait for all the responses from the employers before I hobnobbed to the SJ where I got hooked, literally. Courtesy of my ego and the reality of the work, I would be hesitant to say I was destined to be a prostitute or worse still admit that I choose prostitution because I was lazy, wanted freedom and having it easy. The same way I woulnt say, as some readers have suggested, I am in it because of a sex addiction; As interesting as it is, sex does not stimulate my mind enough to an extent of getting addicted.

Seeing that, for now, I don’t have a simple,clear reason which can qualify as ‘acceptable’,  and  because for once I want to try conform and satisfy society a little bit, I will assume there is a complex reason somewhere which can explain my participating in the flesh trade. Complexity, in this case, being a virtue . And so I start the search for the complex reason by looking at my Sexuality; from the time I was around eight years and used to sexually harass the boy sitting next to me in class, to the now, when I am harassed by men in hotel rooms.

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Monday, February 21, 2011
Episode 15: Things I Carry In My Handbag

The last few days I had been, anonymously, attending a workshop where all the women participants had this urban, suave and sophisticated talk as if they were all living the good times. Something about the way they carried themselves didn’t look real or perhaps because I haven’t socialized with their kind for long I felt that way.

Anyway on the first day of the workshop in what I took to be an ice breaking exercise the facilitator asked; ” What is it you carry in your handbag and can’t leave home without?” The women looked like they were trying to out do each other and the answers included credit cards, sunscreens, a photo of my family, organizer, gym card, yoga book, perfume, motivational book and such. When it came to my turn I hesitated a little, then in the spirit of the workshop which was sort of to strategize against men I said ” My pepper spray. I dress in what makes me comfortable, but makes some men uncomfortable”. I lied. I don’t carry pepper spray, but then in the circumstances I couldn’t mention the actual things that I always have in my handbag, unless I wanted to be thrown out.

I love medium size clutch bags. When I have to carry clothes to work, then I use a larger bag, which after changing I leave with some watchman or other of the street gatekeepers, but I never put  my clutch bag down.  So here are the must have items in my small bag:

1. Pen Knife 

Its actually a cheap but very sharp blade which I can open with a single flick. Sure its a weapon, and I feel much better when I have it. I have never used the blade but since I never know in whose car I hop into , it does no harm to have  some defense tool stand by. If my instincts send alarm signals, I will  have my bag with me until we embark on the sex, and then it will  be within reach. I can only use the blade in the extreme of circumstances. A man not paying me is not extreme. A man verbally abusing me is not extreme. A man hitting twice me is extreme. Can I kill? I would hesitate before committing murder, but if thats the only option to save my life then I would do it without guilt.

2. Lubricant

As someone correctly pointed out there are many times when a client doesn’t arouse me, hence make me wet. It doesn’t matter the foreplay. And quite a number of men are hesitant to lick a prostitute down there. So I have the gel to ease the friction. But its not something I will apply in the presence of the client. That is unprofessional ; enough to turn off some men, though it might  stimulate others. If I need to use the lubricant I will , at the opportune time , excuse myself , pop into the toilet and come back ‘wet’. But of course once in a while, I will meet a man who I ‘feel’ and who in turn makes me wet. Also, high risks, like the police station incident I mentioned in one of the episodes, excite me to the extent of making it unnecessary to use the lubricant.  When I used to work at SJ I never used lubricant, instead I just applied saliva. Even though using a lubricant would have been  for my own good, I didn’t feel the men downtown were worth investing in KY.

3. Condoms

Yes, I carry a pack of Rough Rider condoms. You see there are men who will want to have unprotected sex on the pretense of having forgotten to buy condoms. But viola I always have a pack ready. Others will have genuinely forgotten to buy some, and will only remember when my clothes are on the floor. At such times the emancipation to go raw is at the highest, but then too bad or too good, I have pack ready. Then of course there are men who buy or get for free, cheap, thick , low quality condoms which feel so uncomfortable inside me. Its always a pleasure to introduce them to the world of premium, ultra thin condoms. This reminds me how at the SJ  some girls  used to insist on their clients  wearing  two of those free government condoms. Double protection at half the pleasure. Huh Pleasure is inversely proportional to Protection.

4.Sedative

The spiking agent, the mchele, that can black a man out giving me the opportunity to unload everything from his pockets or some valuables from his house.  I have it both in powder and gum form. As impossible as it may be there are men who will actually believe  that chewing a gum given by a prostitute will make them last forever.  I don’t intend to steal from men, but the drugs add to my feeling of security, knowing if need be, I can knock off a man for hours easily. And then again as Cheupe, she of urinating in the city council van, told me in my first week on the streets “With men you never know when opportunity may strike” and “Whether you steal or not, everybody thinks you are a thief”. I have to admit in my two years or so of practice on the street I have spiked only once, the victim being a drunk diplomat. That’s another of the stories I am going to write about soon.

5. Book

I always have a light book in my handbag. At the moment I have Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, a small book which I bought for Ksh. 70 on the streets.  I am yet to start reading it. Before that I was carrying Tale of Kasaya by Eva Kasaya, and released by Kwani or some other Kenyan publisher. I picked the book from a client’s house with his permission. Its a true, interesting story of adventures of a former house girl until she got ’emancipated’. Its a story I loved, and though I can not exactly relate with it, I know many of my colleagues can. There were times I used to have James Hadley Chase paper backs in the bag, Reading them a second tome after high school. Almost all had a prostitute or some prostitute kind of girl featured in  the story.  My favourite being ‘ But Just A Short Time To Live”. I read on my way to work . Sometimes when bored at home I go to town early, and kill time reading at the Jeevanjee gardens or the seats outside Steers . I read the bigger, involving and more abstract books at home.

6.Lesso and extra pant

If I leave home with my uniform, then I will make sure I have a pant and lesso,  or kikoy tucked somewhere in the clutch bag. What would happen if I am busted by a client’s wife or girlfriend when stark naked in action? Whatever would happen, including leaving my clothes behind, I wouldn’t leave my handbag. At least then I will have something to cover my nakedness.

The other items are what every girl has; some Vaseline, perfume, lip bum, tissue, wipes and the rest. I also carry a lighter, cigarettes, my ID, ‘job’ and business cards.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Of A Bucket, A Brand & A Kid
On Valentine’s day I wanted to sleep with a married man. I was sure one would pick me on his way home to deliver roses and gifts to his beloved wife. I fantasized  of the moment when  having sex I would imagine the flowers and wine on the backseat were meant for me. That, for me, would have been the perfect welcome back to the street after an absence of about a week. I had been out due to a cold and a bruise I suffered after a silly fight the other weekend. Well, it happened, but the man was one of those who don’t believe in the hullabaloo about Valentine so he didn’t have any flowers for the wife. He actually thought he was doing me a favor by sleeping with me on Valentine’s day, and wanted to enjoy my services free of charge.

Enough of him. Now I wish to say a thing or two about some of the comments on the blog. I know this is not the way to do it, but they have accumulated and I don’t spend enough time online to respond to them as they come. A persistent theme in quite a number of  comments has been about my identity and genuineness. There is nothing much to say about that. But truth, by its nature cannot, be contained for long; it always has a way of getting out .

And perhaps other than  inviting someone to enjoy my sex services; there is no foolproof way to prove I am Sue. That’s possible. I have actually received countless offers from readers of this blog who wish to buy my services. But one of the ironies of this blog is that I am somehow afraid of sleeping with my readers. Seeing that they know so much  about me, and my personal philosophy, I always imagine it would be an awkward nasty experience. I met one man who contacted me through the blog and we had a rather uncomfortable time.Then again it makes nonsense of my aim to build a brand. What use is a brand if it does not translate to economic gain? The street is becoming more and more competitive each and every day. The reason I had to go back to the streets on Valentine’s day, though I was not fully recovered. The more I stayed away, the more I lost touch with men, girls & trends.Hence the  less competitive I became. A brand is supposed to give me an edge, to at least bring in more customers. The customers are coming but I am turning them down. The brand, if any,  as of now is of no value; at least in terms of my core business. Maybe I diversify to something else of which I have no idea at the moment. ( Selling my customers t-shirts reading ; I went to Sue and all I got was this lousy t-shirt, pleasure & no disease). Perhaps when hit hard by competition I will have no option but to pitch myself to those who read this. Well I almost digress but I meant to say there might be no way to prove myself in the present circumstance.  And am I obliged to do so?

I have learned to acknowledge the diversity of human beings. No human being really surprises me anymore. Not even this comment on Episode 1:I can’t Feel Your Thing where there was this man I told “That your thing disappears inside me, I can’t feel it at all.”

Anonymous said…

I would have told you to get your overused bucket out of my house with punches and slaps yu whore,at 2.00am,and unleashed watchmen to you who wudda torn your punany apart. January 26, 2011 4:43 PM

Why would one treat us in such a dismissive manner? It boils down to the view that prostitutes have lost dignity of themselves. So why treat them with dignity? The truth, as impossible as it seems, is we still value ourselves. What we have done is define dignity in our own ways. We view and value sex differently. Sex is deemed to be a sacred special act. But we are seen as cheapening sex, doing away with its sanctity. I’d say almost everybody who has casual sex does it. We might be better of because we actually attach a monetary value to the act.

In the same vein verbal abuse has no effect on us or particularly me. When in practice I am rather sure of myself and ego, so even if someone told me I had a  bucket, I would smile and wave goodbye, shaking my small finger.

And don’t be fooled by girls; we dont forget or accept such acts. Personally you may humiliate me, if thats the word, at that particular time of the night, but I will make sure I get back on you; however long it takes ; you will have to pay for it.

Then there was this other interesting chap;

Anonymous on January 27,2011 6:53 AM ,

What business has a whore got to do not pleasuring me yet i wil pay her….Kwanza me,i never pay them..I just pick you,munch you like 15 raos and throw you out,like the tissue you are.I dont even let you shower,i make you go with a stinky punany all the way home…There is one i met at f2,imagine she asked me 4 7k a night..by the way i bought viagra and staffed her 20 raos,then i chapaad her the next morning she left with a swollen face!!!Why charge for a punany that God gave you for free????*puts on an evil smile*

Well let me ignore the obvious untruths like “staffed her 20 raos” and look at “Why charge for a punany that God gave you for free????”  . I charge, because the punany belongs to me. Nature gives us things to help us survive, nature does not charge us, but that does not mean we should not charge. People charge for their good brains and talent which is natural. All-the-way sex is also a talent; just like painting . Not every woman can do it. I have a right to charge

In response to the above comment someone said:

Anonymous January 31, 2011 2:19 PM ..

This is the most shameless man alive. Who in 2011 talks like this???: “Kwanza me,i never pay them” take your broke ass to shags “There is one i met at f2,imagine she asked me 4 7k a night.” yeah 7k. It’s her biashara if you can’t afford it go to Luthuli u shady ass…”Why charge for a punany that God gave you for free?” dude ur buying sex.. oops your stealing sex.. no chick out of the 17 million in Kenya can give u ass?? then your the sorriest asshole alive nkt!! get some manners.

Need I say more?  I would have loved to, but it doesn’t stop there. In the same thread the interesting Anonymous continues..

Anonymous said…

I am the anon @ 9.32am, and in my life i have bedded well over 2000 chicas…Thing is ,all pussies are the same, there is no sweeter one.I usually decieve campus gals with my flossy lifestyle, then when they follow me i chapa them like 15 raos(whole night)…then i wake them up after the last one and tell them,my wife is coming you gotta go.And i dont give them a shilling…Then go to this upcoming career women,esp bankers..esp the ones in sales.I pretend i want a loan,show them my payslip and its a key to my house where the inevitable happens..So by the time i am reaching a ho who wants 10k a night, its usually an afrodisiac coz WHY,WHY are you chargin me for what God gave you 4 free.As i am writing now, am from throwing one out 2nite @ 3.00 for refusing me an oral.Why are you peddling yourself if you cannot give me something as easy as 1,2,3.

Just a minute is there any difference between me and that man who has slept with more girls than men I have had sex with?  Feminists would say its because we are women. I am tempted to say so, but that would make me a feminist of sorts; and I am not. Let’s play who is the prostitute now?

In Episode 2: Why Should I Not Open My Legs?  I talked of my wish to have a kid. A thing which, from some of the comments didn’t make sense to quite a number of people.

Anonymous said…

    Why do you want a kid? January 21, 2011 12:12 AM

Anonymous said…

Interesting …you want to nurture an empire of prostitutes or what?Dont bother getting a kid.

No, I don’t want to nurture an empire of prostitutes. My kid, will have the freedom to determine his or her destiny. I dot believe its entirely impossible for me to become a good mother. I think I would even become a better mother than most in decent jobs, after all mothers get three months, or less, maternity leave, spend the days in the office and only see their children at 7pm, if there is no traffic jam. I would be spending the whole day with my kid. My work doesn’t begin until around 10pm or 11pm, and then most of the days I am home by 6am.  And aren’t there mothers who work night shift?  Perhaps those who doubt, think by being a prostitute I am a less caring human being. That’s not true. Having seen what human beings are capable of, I would be more than caring to my kid.

Well, not to sound impolite but partially I agree with this comment; only partially;

Enigma said…
Hey Sue,go ahead and get that kid. Don’t let some hypocrites dissuade you. After all,do they know for sure what their mothers were doing before they were born?? January 22, 2011 9:55 AM

But if I get the kid, there might be some awkward moments for me as suggested by Eazy;

Eazy said…

“So mom, how did you and dad meet?”  January 24, 2011 12:11 AM

We met at work.

Other concerns had to do with my ability to support the kid

Anonymous said…

Dont you think your child will be affected by your “career” you r also not going to remain forever young so this prostitution wont sustain you for long unless u have some sorta Retirement Benefits going on.. January 25, 2011 5:37 PM

True, I wont remain a prostitute forever. Actually at the rate things are going I might fade out sooner than later. I have no pension scheme, but I am already working on a plan B. Perhaps when I become uncompetitive on the streets, I should look for some sort of formal job, but how to phrase my experience on the street as a plus to the employer would be quite a deal; I have experience selling fast moving consumer goods to men?

In Episode 3: Anything At The Right Price I said I declined to have anal sex with some man. And someone commented:

Icon said…

putting principles and prostitute together? seriously? you better consult a dictionary, the two can never go together .February 14, 2011 8:05 PM
As unimaginable as it may seem, prostitution is also based on some principles; both personal and industry principles. Prostitution does not delete the human part of us, that which makes us beings with a choice; to do A or B. That’s why I declined, even if the price was right. The same way some people would decline to kill even if they were paid their twenty’s salary in advance. Just remembered some other anecdote related to prostitution and principles. Will write about it soon.

To Episode 4: Survival of The Species, where I wrote about the risks of us or me getting infected with HIV. And there was this question:

Anonymous said…

What would u do if you ever get HIV? anuary 21, 2011 12:21 AM

Well, I wouldn’t want to get infected with HIV, but in the worst of circumstances I will just live positively.Many people do.Its an open secret  that some girls here on the street still practice when positive. But like I previously said I would stop working if I became positive. Not for fear of being locked up, as the minister proposed, but one of those principle things. I know how ‘foolish’ it is to have unprotected sex, but the few times I have done so, my instincts have served me right. There are some people, from some VCT, who make the rounds here at least once a week, and those of us willing get tested. I test every week, and so far so good,  I am not losing my guard though. Its been ages since I had raw sex.

Then there was this piece of  advice;

Anonymous said…

Start using the women CD… February 4, 2011 9:51 AM

I once tried and the female condoms are rather clumsy and uncomfortable. And they wont make me more appealing to my clients.

( Will reply to comments in other episodes a little later..)
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Episode 14 (Part 1) : Why I Chose The Street

At some point, early in my career, I was naive enough to think a good education would give one an edge in the trade. I was partly thinking of myself and of a lady I had met at the Sabina Joy; where I practiced for a short time (no pun intended). For those not in the know the Sabina, also known as Karumaindo, is perhaps the oldest and well known bar cum brothel in the country; It is a rough, amorous  place; something vividly captured by a writer.

….To those not accustomed the SJ is  a source of mental, and to men even physical shock, what with the casual display of flesh, inner wear, lewd signs and vulgar language .There might be a lady with big lips, bleached face, thick fingers, smoking a cigarette, a beer on the table in front of her, and a man caressing her wide thighs exposed by her short skirt. There might be another one, looking not more than twenty, dark skinned, slender, smiling showing her dimples and playing with a young man’s zip, pretending as if to open it while asking him to buy her a drink. This scenario is enough to make men of a weaker will fall into the temptation of venturing inside pulling a seat and ordering for a beer so as “to absorb the shock”. And as they sop up the initial bolt of shock, they see and hear more, and they become even more stunned to an extent one beer is not enough to help suck up the shock, thus they ask for another beer, and another and another till that point, late in the night or day when the shock is gone, the pleasure in and they resign themselves to the fate of the SJ. To others the sight, which is like that of the first few seconds of a low budget blue movie, is just pleasure, fodder for fantasy: for that is what the SJ offers to those with shallow pockets, enough material to make their erotic fantasies as close to the reality as possible.

…Unlike in clubs to the east and north of Moi Avenue, where to achieve the right feel for some cosy naughty behavior, the disc jockey pumps fast music supposedly to charge the patrons, then dims the light to create a dreamy air, before playing a soft song say Lionel Ritchie’s Endless Love, at the SJ the mood is always appropriate for love making. Whether nine in the morning, three in the afternoon or eleven at night, the mood is right. Whether playing Awilo Longomba or turbulent Turbulence the mood is always right. There in the air you sense it, but  not the gentle, smooth love making that happens after watching a cheesy movie say Titanic; but something rough, with a touch of urgency, where panties may torn and nail marks left all over the body.

It was at the SJ where I first went after shedding all the pretense of becoming a prostitute. When I decided to do away with camouflage prostitution; where I would sit at a bar sipping a drink, looking decent and hoping a man would pick me. The Sabina had the advantage of having few barriers to entry. The watchman was the only gatekeeper. The other girls would try to intimidate you but if you were stern it was easy to brush them away.

For a girl getting getting into prostitution proper,the SJ offers a relatively soft orientation ; one which wears off inhibitions slowly.  Though exposing your body is a plus at the SJ, its not as a competitive  edge as on the streets. You can still be in that long kinky skirt and jeans and get lots of clients. Then there is no experimentation in sex; mostly because of the socialization of the men who go there, and also due to the fact most of the sex sessions at the SJ are short times. Time and the aura of the short time rooms dissuade most people from doing anything other than the traditional. The rooms have dirty tattered mattresses, with used condoms and toilet paper lying all over the floor. It always amazed me how men could get it up in such circumstances.

The SJ was a risky place for me, it being very popular with college students spending their fees, pocket money and loans. There was a likelihood I could meet someone I knew. For this reason I chose a Tuesday mid morning for my first foray . I thought the chances of meeting someone who knew me on a Tuesday were minimal.

At that hour of the day there was no big deal at the Sabina . I just walked in and sat down . Of course there were the weird glances from other girls. One of them being this girl who could recite Yeat’s The Second Coming, a poem I came to love and find relevant to the circumstances:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity……

To be continued….
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Episode 11: Of Coming Out Of The Closet

I will digress a little today and write about a thing or two that has happened since I started this blog about two weeks ago. I have received quite a number of emails from people who want to meet me both for personal, business and activism purposes. And other mail from people who wish to know whether I am for real. I find them all funny and interesting.

Well the reason some people doubt my existence on the streets is supposedly because I express myself in ‘proper’ English and show some sense of ‘intelligence’. Quite some basis for the doubts. A prostitute is assumed to be a little daft. Just like the thief, she is the loser who opts to go for the shortcut rather than confront life’s challenges head on, like decent people do. To some extent there is truth in this, the same way there is some hypocrisy in it, but that is a story for some other day. Of course there are some of us who are quite slow; Those who even shrub their own names;Calo instead of Carol. But there are others too, as those of you have interacted with us know, who will speak the ‘proper’ English, with even a twang and sparkling of french.

From my interaction most of us are educated at least up to form two. Then there are those who have reached form four but not gone to college. Then there are a few, by street standards, who are educated to college and perhaps university level. Unfortunately or fortunately on the streets the education level doesn’t matter much; its your body that is key. Somehow we are all the same; those with primary certificates or degree certificates. Those who didn’t clear their primary schools are not looked down upon by those who have been to campus. And vice versa. I mean irrespective of our education we are all doing the same thing.

Ability to show use ‘proper’ English and show some ‘intelligence’ is not a good authentic measure. And so is possession of ‘deep thinking’. Most of us, educated or not, have developed some  personal philosophy; a view of the world unique only to our personal selves. Even for those of us who cant express ourselves in ‘proper’ English they can do so in their mother tongue, and since their thoughts are real and non conforming they would be said to be ‘deep’. And yes we are tech savvy. We talk about Facebook and are addicted to Love Find Me.

I have toyed with the idea of coming out in the open. I actually want to meet some of those who hve asked to see me and I will. Other than for the girls I work with, and my clients, only one or two other people know what I actually do. My parents, who luckily moved to the village, have no idea and so does any of our family members.  I use some alibis. I even have some business cards, with my name, from the company at the airport where I work . I have been lucky none of my relatives have ever picked me from the streets, like it has happened to some.

I feel it will be a little awkward to come out in the open. Meeting someone from the ‘decent’ world and start talking about what I do. The sympathy, the hatred, the patronizing, being put on the defense and all other things that might come up. And what will I gain out of it? Perhaps more customers you know. I am waiting for that psychological leap to help me do it, and sure to get it  will happen very soon.

I also fear when I become brave enough to say to the decent people I am a prostitute, I will find myself telling my parents the truth. A truth that will imprison, rather set me free
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Episode 10: The Spiritual Role Of A Prostitute
A female teacher in the mixed boarding school that I attended used to compare us girls to a tin of cocoa; you remember the one which had a foil inside. “The first time you let a man touch your breasts or private parts, then you have opened the lid. The moment you lose your virginity, the foil is gone. After that, every time you have sex , the cocoa gets depleted. If you are not careful the rightful owner will find there is nothing left for him”. At the face of it , it was a polite way to dissuade us from adolescence sex, but a little deeper it implied we girls didn’t really belong to ourselves but to some man somewhere, who was supposed to have all the cocoa. Our role in society it seemed was to prepare for this man.

Certainly it was a simplistic and traditional  way to illustrate our purpose in society. But , now, many years later  when I think of it , I wonder what is my role in society? Or to hide in the safety of numbers, what is the role of us, prostitutes, in society? I read in college about theories which tried to say that everybody has a role in society. You know the ‘I am because we are’ kind of theories. That the other person functions because I function or something of the sort. Removing one person disorganizes society. Would our society then be disrupted if  prostitutes were removed ? The same way it would go hay wire  if the police were taken away?

A quick answer would be no, apparently because we contribute nothing of value to society. And in our odd country here, we even don’t pay taxes. All we do, as some would say, is steal, spread diseases and separate families. But that would be ignoring our spiritual role. Yes, I know how it sounds for a prostitute to talk about spirituality, but I actually mean. We are priests of our own kind, ministering to our flock; the men. Ignoring all the hullabaloo, the role of priests is to provide emotional stability to those who congregate. A role we have played, in a more practical way, to many a man we have slept with.

Men come to us because they want to get something out of themselves. And not the product of their balls, for if that was the case, they would fare better, saving time and money by playing with themselves. Its something intangible, what the priests here call pepo, some sort of ‘demon’. Men come to us possessed by stress, frustrations, mid life crisis, career stagnation,work challenges and we exorcise them in a more pleasurable way, which doesn’t involve sitting on a pew for hours listening to a man or woman blaming your spiritual afflictions on your refusal to give tithe.

But why a prostitute? Unfortunately its because a prostitute is considered to be close to the dark of the earth;a somehow a priest of darkness. But more formal and effective than witchdoctors. Men sex prostitute with some roughness, haste, urgency and complexity not shown anywhere else. I see the difference always when sleeping with a man who doesn’t know I am a prostitute and one who knows. The face of a man after a session with a prostitute, is that of relieve and freshness, something which I can bet my money making organ cant be noted after a time with the kept woman. FYI a prostitute , mark you, is very different from the side girlfriend. The latter is the woman snatcher, and who in reality is in competition with the wife while providing nothing more than sexual pleasure . However that’s a story for another day.

It might be a little hard to get all this, but like with all matters spiritual only those who honestly practice a faith, understand it. Remove prostitutes and the productivity of the country would be affected; families would break up, and more people would end up in asylums. The call for the government to legalize our trade, should not because we are to pay taxes, but because we contribute to the well being of the nation, same as churches.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Episode 9 : When Sex Is No Longer Sin
I have been fascinated by the idea of the Devil & Hell. Not because  I will end up in the hot arms of the Devil. But because I am intrigued by the philosophy of sin. The definition of sin, and the factors that make one kind of sin to have more weight than another. Why is lying to your son about where children come from a lesser sin than say prostitution or stealing?

I have read quite some literature exploring the concept and consequences of sin. There is Dante’s Inferno, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Markheim and certainly the Bible. I love Jesus’ view of sin; an outlook so detached from even the most faithful of his followers. And no, I am not saying this because He had a soft spot for prostitutes; but rather because he was real.

Anyway sometime last year I read on some blog a story trying to give at modern look at Hell. The story defined Hell as the place “Where doing wrong is right, and doing right is wrong.”. After the protagonist had sex  in Hell for the first time, he says something like. ” This was my first sexual experience in hell. It was flat .There was nothing exciting about it. Perhaps not because sex was readily available but due to the fact that the naughty element of sex that makes it the mischievous act it is on earth was lacking. ”

This brings me to my point . Among the major contributors to the so called pleasure of sex is the fact that sex is ‘sin’ , the ‘wrong’ thing . When the sin element of sex is removed it becomes another biological exercise like eating. In marriage the sin factor is contributed by trying to hide it from children and house help. But after sometime that fails to provide the adrenaline rush to spark the excitement in sex; that is when people start to cheat. Sleeping with a prostitute when married is ‘wrong’ but to most men it offers plenty of pleasure. Simply because its not right.

When you earn a living having sex, like I do, its no longer sin. There is nothing to cause the adrenaline rush. Sex is work & work is never particularly interesting. But once in a while you will get a man who comes with an out of the ordinary idea that stimulates your pleasure glands.

The other day a man in a new Jeep picked me around 10 pm. He told me to sit at the back. ” I want to report my wife” he said as we drove to the Central Police Station. The police are not our best friends and wherever possible we keep our distance. But here he was taking me, almost naked and with prostitute written all over me,  to a police station. I didn’t feel so good.

He drove straight to the compound, and parked near a bus whose passengers some two policemen were frisking. We had sex there. It didn’t last ten minutes, but it was the sweetest and most exciting sex I have had in a long time.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Episode 8: In Five Years
A cliche question the reporters in those glossy women magazine ask when interviewing ‘an achiever’ is “Where do you see yourself in five years?” . And the cliche answer for the career women being interviewed is ” I want to be living my dreams, running my own business”. Well that is the right PR answer, masking the real one which could have elements of fear, greed and adultery.

Such women think it would show a lack of ambition and character to say they would still like to be working for the same company, in the same position or a slightly higher one.  But despite what the women say there  would be nothing wrong in working for the same company for five years; indeed in the formal companies the longer you stay the higher you rise, and the more your pay.

In our trade on the streets; the opposite happens; Your value decreases as your experience increases.Quoting five years experience is a turn off. Many a girl gets to prostitution telling themselves they wont do it for more than a few months, maybe six,  save some money, start a business , hit it big in some way or get a ‘proper’ job. But a year goes and another still on the street. The optimal experience is about a year; when one is no longer surprised by the antics of men and all the inhibitions are gone. After a year there is  a plateau and then the downward curve starts.

And this is not tied to age. If a girl hit the streets at the age of 18, in two years she will be 20 but  streetwise she will be older than the girl who started at 23, and has been at it for five months. Somehow men are able to tell the difference, and the more you stay on the street the fewer men  pick you. Eventually you fade away, drop out of the street or change tactic.  The obvious way to do the latter is to go downtown, to cheap brothels and bars; where you charge a tenth of your fees uptown. But its not a free ride down there;Duruma road and Latema are over flowing with fresh girls every day. Good Hope along River Road still offers some hope but there is something really boring about sitting on your chair, in a minis skirt , legs wide open waiting for a man to wink at you.

Of course there are girls who have been here for the five years. As to why they have been in the business that long they don’t talk but something is usually miss with them, a thing I cant really explain. However one thing is absolutely clear; their view of men is on the lowest side. To them, men are  pigs, as some writer said.

In my opinion such girls sound so disillusioned because they are not able to justify the long time they have been on the street. To keep your head up in this business you need to justify , to yourself, all your ‘awkward ‘ actions. So where will I be in five years; Going by the magazine cliche answers I should be a pimp. But the truth is I actually don’t know. I might still be here, if that happens I will say ” I think  sex is over rated. I have been trying to search for the real pleasure in sex”. Certainly a holy grail more elusive than the actual Holy Grail.

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Monday, January 3, 2011
Episode 7: We All Have P

Boys in our school used to say K is constant and what matters are the variables affecting K. It didn’t make sense then but now when I think competition it does. No one loves competition, though out of politeness people say they do.  Competition is especially undesirable if you are peddling the same product and the way to differentiate it is by natural factors beyond your control. Like us, we all peddle P, every man knows that, and so they are looking for other things that come with the P; Beauty, ass, flexibility, age, intelligence and whatever else. So what to do if, for instance one got P but is not good looking and appealing? The logical thing is to accept one’s true position, and then to make the best use of it to fit the male psyche. Like they say in business; look for the edge. It’s fruitless to believe such crap as beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

In the normal world, where a man chases the woman, the latter has all the time to show all the P accompaniments. But not in our trade along the street; we only got five minutes or less to pitch. A man stops his car, we crowd it. He knows we all have P, and so it’s upon us in those few minutes to show him the delicacies with which we will serve it with. The skimpy dresses are not necessarily to arouse but to show in the least time possible what we posses beyond the obvious. The lewd language  to hint at our wilderness and what we are capable of. The mother tongue, to appeal to the roots. And the little jig to focus attention on the hips.

Yet we cannot prevent competition. There will be girls coming to the street every week or so.  A girl cannot come from anywhere and start practicing along “our” street. She has to be introduced by another girl; a veteran, and then buy in cash or kind the goodwill of the real guardians of the street’; the watchmen, the area thugs bouncers and so on. One such girl is Chiki. She came to the street about six weeks ago, and in that short period she has done us enough damage. Physically she is not exceptional: she is pretty, with a gorgeous figure just like many others here. However there is something about her that appeals to men. Only numbered men have turned her down. Her trademark style has been when we all other girls crowd a man’s car windows she stands at the front, in some funky pose which few men are able to resist. My hubby included.

Let me explain. There are men who come only for particular girls and if the girl is not available dare not touch anyone else. Such a girl will call the man “husband”. The other girls will respect the “marriage” so that when the man comes, and the girl is present they back off and let the husband take the “wife” away. Yesterday one of my husbands came. We crowded the windows of his Toyota Camry but when he asked for me and the other girls noted it was my hubby they let go. But Chiki stuck. I was on the driver’s side while she was on the passenger side, smiling at the man, who stared at her seemingly having forgotten my presence. I couldn’t control myself.

“This is my husband .Leave him alone!” I shouted at Chiki.

“Let him pick” she said calmly, smiling even more lasciviously.

I walked to her side and shoved her. Noting signs of a possible confrontation the man zoomed away perhaps never to come back again.

What do you think you were doing? I confronted Chiki after I had looked at the car disappear down the street.

“I was working, same as you” she said.

I slapped her. Then I felt remorseful. The fact of the matter is that neither of us own the men we sleep with. Neither their wives nor their girlfriends. They belong to us all with P.
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Episode 6: Just Call Me Malaya
There have been discussions about the politically correct way to refer to prostitutes. And the suggestions have ranged from the hilarious dealers in horizontal refreshments to the obvious commercial sex workers. The truth is however we don’t give quite a damn about how we are referred. I mean it would be escapism if we are referred by some rosy names; we still do the same thing, and the names don’t increase our value. We actually refer to ourselves and to each other as malaya; a name perhaps more crude than prostitute. But we are not the only malaya, very many men in their twenties and thirties refer to their girlfriends as malaya. A man saying “wacha nikaone malaya wangu” won’t be meaning he is going to see a prostitute but rather her girlfriend. The underlying logic is that all women in a way or another are prostitutes. Very few, if any, women would say with a straight face that they never had sex even once with the money or security component at the back of their minds. We the so called prostitutes are the brave ones to come out in the open and stop beating about the bush; we are in it for the money, the pleasure is secondary.

Talking of names, none of us or rather few of us prostitutes use their real names when introducing ourselves to our clients. Its not really about protecting our identities for if we have the guts to parade on the streets then it means we have little worry about our identities. The trick is to use the name as a selling point. Let’s face it; the truth is that there are names which sound sexier than others could be such a turn off. Due to all the influences around us men have come to associate certain names with some people. Thus if I call myself Beyonce, the man will for a flash think of Beyonce Knowles. Same with a once popular name among the girls here: Naomi…yeah Naomi Campbell. But then you have to be clever in these things; Most men know we use fake names but why make it so obvious?  For instance why call yourself Paris, you know Paris Hilton, while Paris is such an odd name here.

The days of Shiko, Shiro, Maggie and Rosie are gone. The trend nowadays is to sound exotic, unique and well to have a name that feels edible. Exotic is not necessarily in the context of the country but Nairobi, where most  prostitutes are assumed  to come from particular regions. Cheupe for instance has a coastal ring to it, though she comes from somewhere in Central province. And there are all those stories about chakacha, flexibility, sex lessons from the coast. The common name in this category used to be Amina and Mariam but they are now out after they were over used by those who couldn’t even twist their waists. Nowadays French and Amharic names are common. So are unprintable Baganda names. Then there are the “innovative” words given to almost all female children born these days; Furaha, Amani, Pendo, Mimi, Nini, Tamu. Names which signify nothing in real sense, but hint at freshness.

As for me I change names as need be. Many men want to sample women other than those of their tribes. So the first thing is if I am able to guess the tribe of the man from his accent or physical look then I give a name which is from a different and not closely related tribe. The more  rare or smaller the tribe the more excited the men are. If it’s a white man I will give some ‘real’ African name. My favorites are Naliaka and Pendo. I still love Claire and Marilyn. My default name among the girls is Sue, which you too know. Never mind about my real name.
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Episode 5: Let The Pee Flow
On the social scale prostitutes are ranked lowly; somewhere near the proverbial alley cat which can’t tell who fathered its kittens. But if prostitutes be the alley cats then the city council askari are the alley mice. We feel the askari are the scum of humanity representing the worst of mankind. It’s a feeling encouraged by the dismissive and you-are-not-human beings way the askari treat us. It is often, and appropriately so, a cat and mouse game between us and them. Unfortunately for now they have more ways of getting back at us than we have of them. But In spite of them having the handcuffs, whips, guns, cells and when necessary the law, once in a while we will have some clever way to hit them.

By default we are always on the lookout for the council askari and when we see them or hear rumors of their coming we disappear to the shadows or clubs, but as it maybe occasionally they get the better of us. Last night they arrested nine of us who they squeezed in the back of their van.

Every one of us knows the drill; the city council arrests you and at the least you have to fork out 500 shilllings to be let free.  It’s lesser than the three thousand the judge will fine you if charged with prostitution. But the askari will start by asking for a thousand shillings and they expect you to beg them to reduce the amount to 500 shillings. We hate begging the askari, so meanwhile as we decide to eat the humble pie or not  they pack us in their old van and take us round and round the city arresting more girls.

Few girls carry such an amount in their pockets. This is purely for safety reasons; you never know who meet in the night and what they will do to you, so the lesser amount you carry the better. You can’t even trust your clients not to steal from you. If a girl makes money during the night she gives it to a watchman, the bouncers, street guys, anyone trustworthy to keep for her and collects when okay.  Yesterday the city council came a little early, at 10, when few of us had made any money. So we made the necessary calls and were waited for rescue. It’s very rare for a girl to fuck a council askari for freedom. A girl would rather spend the nights in the cell than have an askari inside her. However there will be an odd one who lays an askari but the result is contempt and ostrasization by the other girls until she is pushed out of the street.

Cheupe came up with the idea of urinating in the council vehicle.  We were parked next to the high court gate and all the askari were out receiving a bribe from a man who had come to the rescue one of the girls. Cheupe is an odd one. Though we are all loud, she is the loudest and seems to care the least. She even has a slogan;cheupe kuja nikupe. “You know what we are going to do” she said, her loud voice a little lowered ” We are going to urinate in this van” . We laughed; we took it as a joke. . “Its no joke, we are going to do it, every one of us” she said. She then opened her legs and let out urine. Cheupe doesn’t wear pants, which I find to be less sexy than actually wearing one. Guess men want to fantasize, and when a man is passing and you r display your ass, well bet the fantasy is gone and he will offer you less. Anyway after Cheupe had done it, we all did. It was so much pleasure and we laughed as we did it. The two young girls we also forced to lower their pants and empty their bladders too.

The van was filled with the smell of urine; a mixture of beer, cheap spirits and bodily fluids. We clapped in joy. I was released around 4 am .My benefactor was some bouncer at city club. I paid half the amount in kind in the club’s gents and the rest I will give him in cash. Cheupe was locked in.
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Episode 4: Survival of The Species
Prostitutes are said to be carefree. The reasoning being that if they can have sex with all these men in these days of HIV then they care less. But the truth is we do care. What would be the point of us making money if we wish to die? I remember reading some interesting statistics about the probability of dying in various circumstances. So for instance the probability of dying on the road was higher than that of dying of plane crush. I would say the probability of a prostitute acquiring HIV is the same or equal to that of any person in marriage or come we stay. As long as you have unprotected sex I would say the odds are similar. Having slept with enough married men, I know better than to say men respect their marriages. And I know of many married women to know they are not saints either. Getting infected with HIV is a career hazard, same way a policeman may die of a thug’s bullet

Actually nature’s adaptation may make the odds of acquiring HIV for a prostitute lower. There was if I remember well this Darwinian theory about the survival of the species in which there was something about an organism developing traits to help it survive or adapt to its environment. And maybe it has already happened here in Kenya. Certainly you must have heard of the HIV resistant prostitutes of Majengo. But there is more than that. Many of us have a special instsinct. Something more than the sixth sense which tells us whether to sleep with a man or not and what caution to take. However we don’t always get it right.

Men enjoy raw sex more. But you know raw sex comes with its risks. Yet some men, even married ones, are willing to put the pleasure first, take or ignore the risks and have unprotected sex with us, prostitutes. Raw sex pays more, much more. And here the instinct comes in very handy. You can tell nothing by the look of the man but you can feel it, second doubts and it’s a no. As for the men I don’t know how they tell a prostitute is clean but I bet they have no clue; it’s the foolishness of the moment.

When a man picks a girl from the street they won’t say they are going to have raw sex with her. Only when the have finished the foreplay and its time for the real thing that the girlrealize his plans. If one says no some men will be apologetic and say they had been carried away then proceed to wear a condom, while others will say they want unprotected sex and they are ready to pay for it. That’s where the special instinct comes in.

A man picked me last night and we headed to a hotel in Milimani. He worked on me smoothly with his tongue and I really enjoyed. The expectations are that knowing what people think of prostitutes a man by default will want to have protection.  But it’s not always the case. The man in this case proceeded to try penetrating me raw. I pushed him away slowly.

“Wear  a CD” I said.

“Can’t we do it like this?”

“No. Just wear a CD”

“Just tell me how much you want”

Everything about us is reduced to money. I didn’t give in. I had bad feeling about it. The wisest thing would have been to scatter and not do it even with a condom. Anyway I ended up fucking him using protection. But I still have this uneasy feeling about it and can’t wait for my monthly test.

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Episode 3: Anything At The Right Price

There is a general notion that at the right price a prostitute will do anything. Thus there are many men who pick prostitutes hoping to fulfill all their sexual fantasies. That may be right or wrong. An easy justification while joining prostitution is that it’s about pleasure and money. Pleasure in the default way of love making. A few days in to the business and one realizes it’s more about the money than the pleasure. That’s usually  the breaking point; when one decides to what bodily extremes one can go to for the money. But doing out of the ordinary things doesn’t mean one is dehumanizing herself; it comes with some sort of justification, however lame. For instance if you decide to sell both the front and back side you may tell yourself after over using the front side it has lost its fun, and the back side provides more sensation and you will enjoy it more. And sure you have a right to sweet things too.

The fantasies of men, even respected men, are weird and varied. Do you remember the would be US senator who loved to have his toe sucked? But that is as soft as it gets. Anal sex is a fantasy of many men here; actually it’s quite an obsession. The girls here are almost divided equally. There are girls who specialize in it .Others will never do it no matter the money. We girls too have some weird principles, and personal code of ethics. Like few of my girlfriends would agree to be filmed in the act with their clients. “I feel used” they say. I know I know its sounds ironical but its one of those complex personal ethics things one can never understand.

Yesterday a man picked me some minutes to midnight and took me to a nearby hotel. He looked in his late thirties.  We agreed on a price of two thousand for a one hour or so romp. There is usually no fixed price in these things and it comes down to your negotiations skills and the generosity of the man. Anyway there I was naked, and according to his wish on my fours. I love the style especially if a man’s face is not the best to look at. He fore worked on me proper. But rather than penetrate my P, I felt him try push his way through my asshole. I jumped, facing him.

“I can’t do that!” I said.

“Come on. You girls always do it. That’s why I am paying you 2k”

“I don’t do it”

“How much do you want?”

“It’s not about the money. And hey if you don’t want my P then I better get out of here”

We ended up having a hurried normal sex. I took the money and went back to the street. Of course when I narrated the story I was the laughing stock of some girls. “You don’t know what you missed” Mueni told me. Whether she meant money, pain or pleasure I didn’t know.
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Episode 2: Why Should I Not Open My Legs?
Every girl at some point has dreams of a happy marriage and kids. We are not exceptional; we had those dreams and somehow still nurture them. But then one of the side effects of prostitution is that it makes it almost impossible to trust the institution of marriage. How are you going to believe your man is not cheating when you have slept with countless married men?  Some even without protection? And then that’s only a small part of it. A key pillar of marriage is how the married view sex; as the special thing that should be shared only by your partner. Once a prostitute you lose respect for sex. It becomes just another resource.

So having a husband and kid in the house is no excuse not to sleep with the neighbor, if you can get something out of it. You can’t go hungry or leave below your dreams in the name of faithfulness. It doesn’t matter if you are married to a rich honey and are self sustaining; there will be always that something that you want, and when the opportunity to part your legs in exchange for it comes you will seize it. A large number of girls here have kids. And an equally large number have boyfriends. Most don’t know what their girls do.

Some of the clients here get carried away by the girls they sleep with and decide to keep them in the house as wives. The assumption is if they provide for the girl or open a business for her she will keep her legs together. But it never works. Seems it the curse of the trade. A few of the girls here are also married and hearing what they say you pity the husbands at home. Ironically most of us want to get married. We have to try it out, if it works well and good, if it doesn’t too bad. The dream of course is to land a white man because of the prestige and the money associated with it. But the white men in this city are too clever to fall for a prostitute unless of course if they want some sort of sex slave in the house.  The foolish ones are at the coast.

I am not interested in marriage. I know very well I can’t remain faithful or locked up in the house the whole night. But I want a kid. Yeah, a kid. And the father will certainly be a client with the right genes. Ironically too a man with the right genes will be the last to have unprotected sex with a prostitute. And that’s a challenge, at the right time; I will have to trick the right man to his seed inside me.

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Episode 1: I can’t Feel Your Thing
Men in there in their twenties and thirties are a weird lot. They are most likely to swindle a prostitute for no good reason other than thinking its macho to do so.  They are also with lots of ego problems. They want a girl to scream, moan and cry in bed; it makes them feel on top of the world. When a girl is indifferent they feel lesser men; and that’s their Achilles’ heel. A man picked me up yesterday, near Kengeles, around one in the morning. We agreed on a figure of two thousand shillings, only to get to his house and say he only had half the amount. At that hour of the night, in an isolated Kabete neighborhood there wasn’t much I could do. I wasn’t sure whether he was lying but by virtue of his age, he looked early thirties, probably he was.

So I didn’t fake an orgasm, like I usually do. I just stared blankly at the man as he panted, thrusting on top of me. Not a sound left my mouth, my body didn’t twitch and I didn’t smile. It was my way of getting back at him for shortchanging me.  A I was clapping inside, looking at him getting frustrated on realizing he was not having any effect on me. Not that men tickle me much. Like they say, it’s all in the brain. When you are like me; having sex everyday, with different men, without the slightest of passion then sex loses its flavor. Of course on one or two occasions I get lost into the act and have fun, but those are rare moments.

But I have to make good men feel great. I fake the pleasure; I wiggle ,get into fits and cry out their name. Do that to a man and he won’t feel a pinch when you ask for more cash. He is also more likely to be a regular. From about two years of practice I have noted men react in two ways when a girl is indifferent. First and  most likely; the man will dislike the girl and never want to see her again. They dare not bruise their egos again. Second the man might seek to redeem himself and his ego by sleeping with the girl again, hoping and praying that the girl responds positively.

I didn’t want to see the man I was with yesterday ever again. I hated him, so I decided to hit where it hurts. At 5 in the morning after our last round of sex and ready to leave I said to him “That your thing disappears inside me, I can’t feel it at all.”

Episode 1: I Can’t Feel Your Thing
Episode 2: Why Should I Not Open My Legs
Episode 3: Anything at The Right Price
Episode 4: Survival of The Species
Episode 5: Let The Pee Flow
Episode 6: Just Call Me Malaya
Episode 8: In Five Years
Episode 9: When Sex is No Longer Sin
Episode 10: The Spiritual Role of A Prostitute
Episode 11: Of Coming Out of the Closet
Episode 12: Too Tight For Men
Episode 13: We Don’t Break Up Families
Episode 14: Why I Chose The Street
Of A Bucket, A Kid & A Brand

And on and on upto over 40 posts.

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SFI “Power Tools”

Use these SFI “Power Tools” to boost and
accelerate the growth of your SFI business.
PSAs To Go and S-Builder Co-op
Every day, SFI’s international advertising network
generates HUNDREDS of new SFI affiliate sign-
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Like Key Code tracking, if you’re not monitoring
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Co-op Manager
Co-op advertising is an extremely powerful
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does all the heavy lifting while providing you with
a powerful platform to create and run easy, no-
fuss co-ops that can explode your business.
Available to Executive Affiliates.
Communication
If you’re not employing regular communication
with your team, you’re building your business
with both hands tied behind your back. Referring
TC members is great. Sponsoring affiliates is
great. But more than anything else you do, it is
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powerful Communication tools make this vital
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The PSA Mailer: Just go to the PSA Mailer Web
page, enter your message and hit submit to send
a message to all of your PSAs (personally
sponsored affiliates). Provided you haven’t
already earned it for the week, you’ll also earn 30
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The CSA Mailer: On the CSA Mailer page, type in
your message and click submit to send a
message to all of your CSAs (co-sponsored
affiliates). Provided you haven’t already earned it
for the week, you’ll also earn 30 VersaPoints !
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Reassignment Manager (links from Genealogy
Report)
SFI’s Reassignment tool provides you with an
great way to provide action, upgrade, and team-
building incentives and rewards to affiliates in
your downline. A great tool for sparking growth
and momentum in your group. Available to
Executive Affiliates.
Affiliate Manager (links from Genealogy Report)
The Affiliate Manager tool provides you with a
central repository of information and data on each
of your personally sponsored affiliates. Just click
an affiliate’s name in your SFI Genealogy Report
to access the Affiliate Snapshot. You’ll find the
Affiliate Manager within the snapshots for your
team members. For your sponsored and co-
sponsored affiliates, the Affiliate Manager provides
a handy checklist of supportive suggestions for
you. The Affiliate Manager also contains signup
dates/times, key codes, ranks, VersaPoint totals,
the most recent login dates, goal information,
performance statistics, and more. Available to all
SFI Affiliates.
Genealogy
One of your most powerful resources in SFI. Use
your Genealogy to manage your growing
organization, send individual and group messages
to your entire organization (or any segment),
monitor sales activity, award gift certificates,
reassign sponsors, and more. Available to all SFI
Affiliates.
Gift Certificate Manager
A great way to build your business, Gift
Certificates are wonderful tools for Team Leaders
who want to entice customers to try
TripleClicks.com and encourage their team
members to take action, upgrade, sponsor
affiliates, and more (click HERE for details). Using
the Gift Certificate Manager is simple too. Just
set up and fund a Gift Certificate Account and add
the funds you want to set aside for your gift
certificate offers. SFI notifies the customer or
affiliate that he or she has a gift certificate and
automatically deducts the amount from your
special account when it’s redeemed. EASY!
Available to Executive Affiliates.
Lifetime Custom Prestige Domain
Forget trying to use arcane, hard-to-remember
Web addresses with long, unwieldy numbers in
your marketing aids…Get your own prestigious
domain to use in your promotions of SFI,
TripleClicks, Pricebenders, etc. Yours to use for as
long as you remain an SFI affiliate in good
standing, your Lifetime Custom Prestige Domain
will work well in all types of marketing, including
e-mail, Web banners, print media ads, garments,
automobile banners, billboards, car signs, and
more! Available to all SFI Affiliates. Already own
a Prestige Domain? Click here to access your
domain manager.

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International Affiliate Resources

International
Affiliate Resources
Since 1985, SFI has grown into a worldwide
organization with more than one million affiliates
in more than 200 countries. To help you succeed,
we offer lots of features especially designed for
our international business owners and affiliates
targeting customers and prospects outside the
U.S.:
TripleClicks MasterCard
The TripleClicks MasterCard (formerly known as
the SFI Cash Card) opens up an array of exciting
financial benefits for SFI affiliates worldwide:
 No need to wait days or weeks for your
commission checks to arrive by postal mail!
Instead, get your SFI commissions paid directly
to your card, then convert to cash–in your
country’s currency–instantly at almost any ATM
machine world-wide!
 Use your TripleClicks MasterCard to pay bills, to
order products at TripleClicks.com, or use your
card anywhere else online or offline that accepts
MASTERCARD®!
 Check your balance and more online 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
 Your TripleClicks MasterCard is a powerful
recruiting tool, too. Pull out your TC MasterCard
and explain how your friends can become SFI
affiliates, too, and get money deposited on their
own TripleClicks MasterCard 24 hours a day, 7
days a week from sales all over the world! An
easy and professional way to do this is to give
them your business card or SFI X-Card .
 The TripleClicks MasterCard also facilitates new,
“quick pay” commissions. Later this year, you’ll
be able to make a sale and receive your
commission the same week, no matter where you
are in the world!
To get your Cash Card, make sure “TripleClicks
MasterCard” (default) is chosen as your
Commission Payment Option HERE. Once you
have accumulated $20 in commissions, you will
be notified via e-mail and alerts in the SFI
Affiliate Center that you are now eligible and can
order your card. Just follow the directions in this
e-mail to order your card directly through
Payoneer. Your TripleClicks MasterCard will come
loaded with the balance of your account, minus
$19.95 (a one-time fee) for the cost of processing
your card.
Once you receive your card, you can start using it
immediately, and each month you generate
commissions, we will automatically deposit your
earnings on to your card for instant access. If you
have any questions, please stop by our Support
Desk.
*The banks issuing TripleClicks MasterCards
require a 10-day hold on initial commission
deposits for new cards. If you receive your card
prior to the end of this hold period, your card may
not yet reflect your commission balance.
Digital Products For Easy Global Delivery
SFI’s store, TripleClicks.com, offers numerous
digital products, which eliminate shipping fees.
These include:
 TCredits —TCredits allow you to take FULL
advantage of your TripleClicks member benefits.
Use your TCredits for member listings, to bid on
Pricebenders™ Auctions, to download music from
the TuneFlow Music Store, and more. Credits can
be used at any time but do expire one year from
purchase.
 S-Builder Co-op Unit —Our international
advertising co-op, available to all SFI affiliates.
Accelerate your path to success!
 Hundreds of e-books and other digital products
Local Products & Services
SFI’s E-Commerce Associates (ECA) program,
has already brought thousands of new products
to TripleClicks. The merchants selling these
products are worldwide, meaning you can
patronize businesses from right within your own
country, region, or city. In some cases, you can
even pick up the products right from the
merchants’ local retail outlet, eliminating shipping
fees altogether.
To review all approved ECAs (E-Commerce
Associates) in your country:
1. Go to http://www.tripleclicks.com/ecaCountries.php
(log in if necessary using your SFI ID and
password).
2. Select your country from among those listed.
3. You’ll see a list of all ECAs (along with a brief
description of their product lines) located within
your chosen country. Just click an ECA link to
view its details page and individual products.
By the way, if you really like an ECA you find on
the report, be sure to click the “Connect With This
Company” button on the company details page
help boost its power ranking. You might also
receive special offers, etc. from the ECAs you
connect with!
PLUS…keep in mind that there could be many,
many more ECAs in your country in the coming
weeks and months. Why not take advantage of
this opportunity and sign up some ECAs yourself?
There could be thousands of other SFI affiliates
just like you in your country who want to start
buying and selling products from local ECAs. By
referring some ECAs in your country, YOU can
become a major beneficiary! You can be the one
earning lifetime royalties every time an affiliate
or other TC member buys or sells the products of
the ECAs you’ve referred. Learn more HERE .
Currency-Specific Banners
You can target potential affiliates with banners
featuring country-specific currency and different
languages HERE .
SFIPPA (Pay-Per-Action)
Earn income by getting others to take actions–
such as filling out forms.
Each time you generate a qualified SFIPPA action,
you’ll earn a bounty. NOTE: Important restrictions
apply!
Currency Converter
You can easily view the cost for products at SFI’s
TripleClicks.com (TC) store in your national
currency by using the Currency Converter, located
at the bottom of the TripleClicks.com screen.
Just choose one of the 17 currencies available
from the menu, and all product prices displayed
at TripleClicks.com will be in that selected
currency. Currencies available to view at the TC
store are: United States Dollar, Euro, United
Kingdom Pounds, Japanese Yen, Canadian Dollar,
Australian Dollar, Russian Rubles, Mexican Pesos,
New Zealand Dollar, Singapore Dollar, Hong Kong
Dollar, Swedish Krona, Norwegian Krone,
Malaysian Ringgit, South African Rand, Swiss
Franc, and Indian Rupee. NOTE: All SFI
transactions are processed in U.S. Dollars.
Language Translations
SFIMG provides many language translations for
its Websites. For the general SFI Affiliate Center,
please see ” Language Translation at SFI. ” NOTE:
For more information on language translation,
check out this article written by SFI President
Gery Carson.
Gift Certificate Program
SFI’s Gift Certificate program is designed
primarily to allow affiliates to give gift certificates
as incentives (read more about this here ).
However, this resource can also be used to
enable easier international payments when
options for your downline members living outside
the U.S. is limited and/or problematic.
Here’s how it could work: just deposit money into
your SFI Gift Certificate account, and ask your
affiliates who wish to become an Executive
Affiliate what amount they require to purchase a
qualifying item. Have them pay you in any form of
payment you work out with them and then issue
them the appropriate gift certificate. They can
now go to TripleClicks.com and make their EA-
qualifying purchase using that gift certificate!
Example: One of your affiliates would like to
become an Executive Affiliate (EA) by purchasing
200 TripleClicks Credits , which is $58 (for three
50-paks, click HERE ). He gives you $58 in the
form of payment you agreed upon. You issue him
a $58 gift certificate. He can now go to TC, put
the credits in his shopping cart, and pay for it
using the $58 gift certificate you issued to him.
You now have a new Executive Affiliate on your
team, resulting in a stronger team and higher
commissions for you in the coming months!
Ask SC
Ask SC taps into the wealth of knowledge of SFI’s
more than a million affiliates worldwide. You can
submit questions to the SFI Community, vote up
the best answers, and add your own answers too.
a2a
Short for “Affiliate To Affiliate.” SFI’s social
networking program. With a2a, you can search,
browse, and exchange messages with ANY SFI
affiliate; identify SFI affiliates in your own
country, state/province, or even city; search by
gender, age, join date, common goals, and more,
or by any combination. Click HERE to register and
begin using a2a.
SFI Forum
Stop by the SFI Forum and join in-depth
discussions of SFI products, programs, and more
with your fellow SFI affiliates. Brainstorm and
share tips and ideas. Start new threads. Get your
questions answered 24/7.
Local SFI Affiliate Search
Find out how many SFI Affiliates are living in your
country.
Countries & Currencies
A listing of the world’s countries and the
currencies each uses.
Global Payment Options
SFI accepts PayPal, credit card, PexPay,
PayByCash (Cash, Direct Debit, eCheck,
InstaDebit, Western Union, Cash, Bank Transfer,
Hyperwallet, Moneybookers, Google Checkout,
Click2Pay, Money Order, TravelersExpress, Wallie-
card, and many others), as well as many other
payment methods. Affiliates in the following
countries can simply choose their preferred
payment methods during the checkout process
right before they place orders at the store.
NOTE: Orders for products prohibited for shipment
by your specific country’s customs laws cannot
be processed.

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My SFI Gateways

My SFI Gateways
Every SFI affiliate is assigned his or her own
unique SFI Gateway Website(s) to use in
promoting their businesses. Below is a list of your
SFI Gateway Websites for both referring
TripleClicks members and sponsoring SFI
affiliates. NOTE: For marketing methods, aids,
and training on referring members and sponsoring
affiliates, click HERE .
“FREE” Gateway (aka our “REAL” and “REAL2”
Gateways):
http://www.sfi4.com/15144709/FREE
This Gateway features listings of our latest
enrollments and earners and brief info on
TripleClicks, as well as a built-in registration form
so everything is all in one nice, compact page.
WAVE3 Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/wave
Attract new TC Members with the WAVE3
program (and earn commissions on their
purchases) by referring your prospects to W3
Gateway above.
Invitation Gateway:
http://www.sfi1.biz/15144709
Personalized with your name and an invitation to
viewers to join SFI, this clean, friendly designed
Gateway is also integrated into SFI Share-Its—
little “mini-ads” for promoting SFI and
TripleClicks on social media sites such as
Facebook and Twitter.
First With Entrepreneurs Gateway:
http://www.sfi4.com/15144709/first
Featuring a rotation of photographs of SFI’s
latest income earners, this Gateway focuses on
the lucrative income opportunity available with an
SFI business.
Eager Zebra Games Time Machine Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/games/
TimeMachine.php
Attract new PRMs to the Time Machine game at
TripleClicks, where they can predict the answer to
a coming event and win the Time Machine
Zackpot.
Eager Zebra Games Knockout Trivia Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/games/
KOTrivia.php
Attract new PRMs to the Knockout Trivia game at
TripleClicks, where they try to outlast fellow
players in answering trivia questions to win a
share of the KO Trivia Zackpot.
Eager Zebra Games Pick The Price Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/games/
PickThePrice.php
Attract new PRMs to the Pick The Price game at
TripleClicks, where they can predict the final price
of a Pricebenders auction and win a share of the
PTP Daily Zackpot.
Pricebenders Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/pbgw
Refer people to the latest Pricebenders “Wow”
auctions to spread the word about Pricebenders
auctions and the jaw-dropping deals that are
taking place daily.
TripleClicks Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709
This Gateway will drop off your prospective
members at the main homepage.
TripleClicks Silver76Pack Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/Silver
A Gateway linking directly to the Silver76Pack (1
oz. Silver Bar + 75 TCredits) product page.
TripleClicks “Song-of-the-Month” Artist
Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/artist
This Gateway is designed to help you attract
artists for our monthly TripleClicks “Song-of-the-
Month” contest. Learn more .
DIRECT SALES GATEWAYS
Advanced Marketers: If you have the experience
to generate sales directly, you may wish to
promote individual TripleClicks products. You can
turn any TripleClicks page (including a search
results page) into a Gateway by simply inserting
your SFI ID after the main TC domain name in the
URL.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Advanced Liquid Nutrition:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/
detail.php?item=5169
50 TCredits:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/
detail.php?item=58457
Home & Garden Department:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/tcsearch/
category:9
Individual TripleClicks Product and Department
Gateways
For more methods and strategies for generating
TripleClicks sales, click HERE.
ECA (E-Commerce Associates) Gateway:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/ECA
Refer companies that sell products to your ECA
Gateway, and for each ECA approved, you’ll earn
an immediate 100 VP when that ECA lists their
first product AND up to 10% of the CV
(Commission Volume) on all of their sales at
TripleClicks–for life! Learn more .
Your Custom Domains
To create your own domains for your SFI
business, you must first purchase a custom
domain at TripleClicks.com or win a custom
domain in a Pricebenders auction .

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Become a Fast-Track Member

Become a Fast-Track
Member and let the world
know
you plan to be a star in
SFI…and you’re starting
NOW!
BENEFITS
250 Bonus VersaPoints!
Learn more about VersaPoints.
30 free entries in the Daily Grand
drawing!
For each of your first 30 days as a Fast-
Track Member, you’ll receive one free entry
to win a share of over $2000 in daily
prizes! 200 prizes awarded daily

. Fast-Track Bonus Shares
Become a Fast-Track Member today and
boost your SFI income for years to come!
As a Fast-Track Member, you can
automatically receive 10% bonus shares of
the TripleClicks Executive Pool every
month!
Example: If during a month you earn
10,000 VersaPoints (i.e. 10,000 shares of
the Executive Pool), you’ll automatically
receive an extra 1000 shares of the
Executive Pool . Whatever VersaPoints you
earn (including Matching VersaPoints),
you’ll earn an additional 10% in shares of
the Executive Pool…EVERY MONTH!
Note: You must be at least an EA
(Executive Affiliate) and Fast-Track-
qualified (minimum of $20 in sales and/or
purchases) each month to earn the Fast-
Track Bonus shares.
3 Co-Sponsored Affiliates
(CSA) added to your team!
As their Co-Sponsor, you’ll earn 15% CV of
all purchases they make for life–so long
as you maintain the minimum rank of
Executive Affiliate (EA). Advance to the rank
of Team Leader and you’ll also earn
unlimited Matching VersaPoints on all your
CSAs with the minimum rank of EA2.
500 VersaPoints
Combined with the 250 Bonus VersaPoints
you’ll be receiving for becoming a Fast-
Track Member, that’s a total of 750
VersaPoints. Learn more about
VersaPoints.
Back to the SFI Affiliate Center
9 DAYS LEFT TO QUALIFY
Become a Fast-Track
Member and let the world
know
you plan to be a star in
SFI…and you’re starting
NOW!
BENEFITS
250 Bonus VersaPoints!
Learn more about VersaPoints.
30 free entries in the Daily Grand
drawing!
For each of your first 30 days as a Fast-
Track Member, you’ll receive one free entry
to win a share of over $2000 in daily
prizes! 200 prizes awarded daily.
Exclusive Fast-Track Member
badge for your home page!
• Attain the silver badge with basic
qualifications (see below)
• Attain the prestigious gold badge with the
basic qualifications and by setting up a
minimum 1500 VP Standing Order in your
first 10 days. As a gold Fast-Track
Member, you’ll also be immediately
upgraded to EA2 (Executive Affiliate 2)
status. As an EA2, you’ll receive 10 free
bonus TCredits ($5.90 value) monthly–
starting this month. You can also
immediately start earning Eager Zebra
Zackpot 10% matches, plus other valuable
EA2 benefits. See Benefits Chart for
complete details.
Your name and photo added to our
Fast-Track Wall of Fame!
Your name and photo will be permanently
displayed on our Fast-Track Wall Of Fame
website. You’ll also be listed on our newest
achievers column on our Global Growth
Page so that the entire SFI community can
celebrate your awesomeness.
Fast-Track Member certificate–
suitable for framing!
The handsome, full-color certificate,
personalized with your name, can be
immediately downloaded upon qualifying
as a Fast-Track Member.
Exclusive Fast-Track Member
Lapel Pin!
Let the world know you’re a go-getter with
one of the largest affiliate networks in the
world when you wear this beautiful, glossy,
stainless steel lapel pin—available
exclusively for SFI Fast-Track Members!
The Fast-Track lapel pin is made available
after three months of Fast-Track
qualification (minimum $20 in sales and/
or purchases each month).
QUALIFICATIONS
1. Complete the five Fast-Track actions in
the Getting Started section of your To-Do
List (look for the green or red JET icons).
Note: Jets will not be displayed if you’ve
already completed the associated actions
or you’re past the 10-day Fast-Track
eligibility window.
2. Generate a minimum of $20 USD in
sales and/or purchases within your first 10
days in SFI. Choose from over 90,000
products available at TripleClicks .
That’s it!
TIP: What’s the fastest, easiest and best
way to meet qualification #2? The most
popular answer is our TripleClicks New
Member Pack (NMP). The NMP is just $20
and comes loaded with mighty TCredits,
Member Rewards Points, Eager Zebra
Game tokens, and a heaping helping of
valuable free bonuses that make NMP a
slam-dunk bargain.  Great to buy, great to
sell! Complete details below.

WHAT’S IN THE
NEW MEMBER
PACK?
TOTAL VALUE = $61.90.
You save $41.90!
Purchase up to five to save up to
$209.50!
SPECIAL BONUSES FOR
SFI AFFILIATES
As an SFI affiliate, when you purchase the
NMP, you’ll also receive…
BUY NMP
Note! The NMP is only available during
your first 10 days as an SFI Affiliate or TC
Member.
About selling NMPs: Each sale of an NMP
to a retail customer earns you 500
VersaPoints. It also generates $6.70 CV
(Commission Volume). The Direct
Commission for the seller is $3.02. You
may refer prospects to
http://www.tripleclicks.com/15144709/
detail.php?item=381607 . You will
automatically earn the VersaPoints and
Direct Commissions on any sales
generated from this URL.
FREE BONUS
NMP includes 30 FREE
entries in the TripleClicks
Daily Crown Drawing
One free entry each day for the next 30 days
to win a share of over $1,700 in daily prizes.
200
Member Rewards Points
Learn More
50
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Sfi Co-op Magic

SFI Co-op Manager
& The Magic Of Co-
oping
A special message from SFI
President & Founder, Gery Carson
Back in the 80’s and early 90’s, before I founded
SFI, I was a very visible and highly successful
player in network marketing. In fact, I built some
of the largest downlines seen at the time and was
the No. 1 distributor for a number of network
marketing companies.
What was the biggest key to my success? Co-op
advertising! Early in my network marketing career,
I saw how powerful co-op advertising was, and I
used it to the greatest extent possible.
Co-op advertising is a popular and VERY
powerful method of advertising in which two or
more people share the cost of advertising and the
resulting benefits. It allows you and your team
members to pool your dollars together to
advertise, and then share in the resulting leads
generated.
But the benefits go beyond shared leads.
The real power of your co-op lies in the fact that
YOU are the co-op leader. Because of the SFI
commission structure, you can actually earn on
EVERY new affiliate your co-op attracts—not just
those who get recorded as having you as their
sponsor.
Think about how powerful that is!
Let’s say you create a co-op where shares are
$50 apiece. You put in $50 yourself and you get
40 members of your downline to also participate
for $50 each. When you run your ads, you’ll have
over $2,000 in advertising working for you (yet
you only put in $50 yourself)!
But it wasn’t just you who benefitted. EVERYONE
wins, of course, because you provided a way for
your inexperienced team members to get leads
flowing into their groups quickly, easily,
inexpensively, and with low-risk.
Co-ops are AWESOME!
I once created a co-op for a direct mail campaign
that went out to over 100,000 people. Yet my
cost for printing and postage for this mammoth
mailing was ZERO. You can do the same thing.
You can do all kinds of co-ops and create
phenomenal growth, activity, and excitement in
your group.
And here’s the best part: When I did my co-ops in
the past, there was a significant amount of
manual work that had to be done to set them up,
track the results, distribute the leads, etc.
However, through the SFI Co-op Manager , we do
all the heavy lifting and provide you the platform
to create and run easy, no-fuss co-ops. All you
have to do is plug in your co-op participants and
collect payments. (Tip: PayPal is a great tool for
this).
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The SFI Compensation Plan

Important: To understand the SFI Compensation
Plan, you must first understand CV (Commission
Volume). Every product at TripleClicks.com has a
CV value. This value is determined by the
product’s margin (The difference between the
product’s wholesale/base cost and the price the
product sells for). The higher the margin, the
higher the CV. A product’s CV is the maximum
amount that can be paid out in commissions for
that product.

Each time an SFI affiliate that you have
personally sponsored–OR a TC member that you
have personally referred–places an order at
TripleClicks.com , you earn 45% of the CV.
SFI’s Direct Commission program is powerful
because once you sign up a member or affiliate,
they become your customer for life!* SFI takes
care of all order processing, product shipments,
and customer service at no cost to you, and pays
you a Direct Commission for every order placed
by your members and affiliates for life!*
Special Note: For purchases by personally referred
TC members, you’ll ALSO earn all the VP** on the
order–which can earn you additional shares of the
TripleClicks Executive Pool!
Earnings Example: An order is placed by one of
your personally referred TC members that has
$23 CV and 1,725 VP. You earn a $10.35 Direct
Commission (45% of $23) and 1,725 shares in the
TripleClicks Executive Pool.
 ASK SC: What’s the best way to inspire your
affiliates to promote TripleClicks products sales?
 ASK SC: What is the most effective way to
generate product sales?
 ASK SC: What is the best way to get people to
TC, generate sales, and earn commissions?
TIP: To see the Direct Commission (DC) that you
can earn for every SFI product, just log in at
TripleClicks.com . The DC (Direct Commission),
CSC (Co-Sponsor Commission), EP (Executive
Pool), CV (Commission Volume), and VP
(VersaPoints) are included in each product’s
description.
TripleClicks Executive
Pool
Qualification: Executive Affiliate
To earn shares in the TripleClicks Executive Pool, just accumulate VP by doing the actions on your SFI To-Do List
(earn more by becoming a Team Leader)
S-Builder Co-op can help you increase the number of TripleClicks Executive Pool shares you earn. Learn More .
SFI’s TripleClicks Executive Pool provides a
simple, easy, and lucrative income stream that all
SFI affiliates can tap into every month. SFI-
powered TripleClicks.com is one of the fastest-
growing e-commerce Website in the world, and
we now put 40% of the CV of EVERY purchase–
companywide–into the TripleClicks Executive Pool
for our affiliates to share in!
How to share in the pool:
For each VersaPoint (VP) you accumulate during
the month, you will receive one share of the
month’s pool. The more VP you score, the more
you will earn from the TripleClicks Executive Pool!
It’s that simple. Note that VP can be earned for
doing a wide variety of actions (see VP Ledger for
complete list of pointable actions).
To earn even more shares, become a Team
Leader:
A. As a Bronze Team Leader , you’ll receive
matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within
6 levels (including your CSAs ).
B. As a Silver Team Leader , you’ll receive
matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within
8 levels (including your CSAs ).
C. As a Gold Team Leader , you’ll receive
matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within
10 levels (including your CSAs ).
D. As a Platinum Team Leader , you’ll receive
matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within
12 levels (including your CSAs ).
Matching VP Example: You are an STL. The EA2s
in your first 8 levels account for a total of 57,500
VP this month, so YOU earn a matching 57,500
shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool.
Important Qualification Note: To earn matching
VP, you must hold the rank of Team Leader,
maintain your SFI Leadership Page, and also
maintain a minimum 3-star Sponsor Rating (not
applicable w/less than 5 ratings).
Co-Sponsor
Commissions
Qualification: Executive Affiliate
Each time an SFI affiliate that you are the co-
sponsor of places an order at TripleClicks.com ,
you earn 15% of the CV.
Earnings Example: An order is placed by one of
your co-sponsored SFI affiliates (CSA) that has
$28 CV. You earn a $4.20 Co-Sponsor
Commission (15% of $28).
Note: If you’re a Team Leader, you can also earn
Matching VP on all your CSAs. See TripleClicks
Executive Pool above for details.
How to acquire CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates):
A. A minimum of TWO (2) CSAs are allotted to
you each month you attain the rank of EA
(minimum 1500 VP)—available on or about the
12th of each month.
B. You can win CSAs in the Daily Grand contest.
C. CSAs can be won via Pricebenders Auctions.
See schedule for upcoming CSA auctions HERE.
D. CSAs can be won each day in the
Entrepreneur365 Finalist drawing.
E. Every month, thousands of Co-Sponsored
Affiliates are forfeited and need a NEW co-
sponsor. Become a Team Leader and a share of
all of these forfeited Co-Sponsored Affiliates will
be automatically added to your team, with YOU
as their new co-sponsor!
• Receive 1 share if you’re a Bronze Team Leader
• Receive 2 shares if you’re a Silver Team Leader
• Receive 3 shares if you’re a Gold Team Leader
• Receive 4 shares if you’re a Platinum Team
Leader
Important Note: You must maintain EA (Executive
Affiliate) status to retain any CSAs you have been
assigned. If you lose your EA status, you
immediately forfeit ALL CSAs you’ve acquired to
date.
For more information on co-sponsored affiliates,
click HERE .
TIP: To see the Co-Sponsor Commission (CSC)
that you can earn for every SFI product, just log
in at TripleClicks.com . The CSC (Co-Sponsor
Commission), DC (Direct Commission), EP
(Executive Pool), CV (Commission Volume), and
VP (VersaPoints) are included in each product’s
description.
TCredit Bonus
Qualification: EA2 (minimum
second month as Executive
Affiliate)
TCredits allow you to take FULL advantage of
your TripleClicks membership benefits and can
also be used in many ways to build your SFI
business. A single TCredit sells for $1.99, but you
can receive, as part of your compensation as an
SFI affiliate, up to 20 TCredits FREE every month!
To learn about all the things you can do with
TCredits, click HERE.
• Receive 10 TCredits if you’re an EA2
• Receive 12 TCredits if you’re a Bronze Team
Leader
• Receive 14 TCredits if you’re a Silver Team
Leader
• Receive 16 TCredits if you’re a Gold Team
Leader
• Receive 20 TCredits if you’re a Platinum Team
Leader
ECA Referral Program
Qualification: Executive Affiliate
Make referrals to the TripleClicks E-Commerce
Associate (ECA) Program and earn VersaPoints
and lucrative royalties for life!
Simply refer companies that sell products to your
ECA Gateway . For each that becomes an
approved ECA, you’ll earn 10% of the CV on all of
their sales at TripleClicks.com. Plus, you’ll earn
an immediate 100 VP when your ECA generates
their first $10 or more in sales.
The ECA referral program is very powerful
because all you have to do is introduce an ECA to
TripleClicks and you’re all set to earn royalties for
life! Every time anyone—anywhere in the world—
buys something at TripleClicks from one of your
referred ECAs, you earn a royalty!
Earnings Example: The total CV for all of your
referred ECAs is $20,000. You earn $2000 in ECA
Royalties this month (10% of $20,000).
Tip #1: Buy from your own referred ECAs and
receive “rebates” on your purchases.
Tip #2: Refer customers to your ECA’s “store
within a store” TConnect Websites. With the
combination of Direct Commissions and ECA
Royalties, you can earn a handsome 55% of the
CV on any sales generated!
 ASK SC: What are the best methods for signing
up ECAs?
SFI Pay-Per-Action
Supplemental Income Program
Qualification: Affiliate
SFI Pay-Per-Action (SFIPPA) is an optional,
supplemental income program available to all SFI
affiliates that allows you to act as an advertiser
for SFI and earn supplemental income by getting
others to take actions such as filling out forms.
Each time you generate a qualified SFIPPA action,
you earn a bounty. The amount of the bounty
varies depending on the action. The SFIPPA
currently available (with more in the works) is:
SFI AFFILIATE SIGN-UPS
Bounty: Up to $10 for each qualified sign-up
For complete details on SFIPPA, click HERE .
11 Reasons Why The
SFI Comp Plan Rocks!
1. Clean, simple, generous, and fair!
2. No purchase requirements…ever!
3. Start earning income immediately just by doing
simple free actions!
4. Earn up to six different ways: Direct
Commissions, TripleClicks Executive Pool , Co-
Sponsor Commissions, TCredits Bonus , ECA
Royalties , and SFI Pay-Per-Action !
5. Qualify for EVERY type of compensation with
as little as 1500 VP a month!
6. All qualifying VP can be generated with just
actions, or combinations of actions and sales!
7. A huge 40% of the Commission Volume (CV) on
EVERY sale at TripleClicks.com goes into the
TripleClicks Executive Pool. Share in this big,
companywide pool with a minimum of just 1500
VP a month!
8. With OVER 90000 available products from more
than 130 countries, TripleClicks.com has
something for everyone. This makes selling
products online both fun and lucrative. And it’s
even easier to earn VP with Transfer Buying
(buying from TripleClicks.com the products you
already buy elsewhere)!
9. Fast upfront compensation and great long-term
residual income potential too!
10. There’s no limit to how much you can earn.
Go as wide as you want while also earning deep
into your organization via the TripleClicks
Executive Pool!
11. Get paid in your country’s currency via our
Payoneer™ MasterCard or via check or PayPal.

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