This Isn't New Or News

Well, this is interesting but not a new thing. I went to the Bahamas in 1982 just after college and remember seeing the island men hooked up with "old looking" white women who seemed to be paying their way. Now it seems that show has been taken to Kenya.

Emerging alongside this black market trade — and obvious in the bars and on the sand once the sun goes down — are thousands of elderly white women hoping for romantic, and legal, encounters with much younger Kenyan men.

They go dining at fine restaurants, then dancing, and back to expensive hotel rooms overlooking the coast.

“One type of sex tourist attracted the other,” said one manager at a shorefront bar on Mombasa’s Bamburi beach.

“Old white guys have always come for the younger girls and boys, preying on their poverty … But these old women followed … they never push the legal age limits, they seem happy just doing what is sneered at in their countries.”

Experts say some thrive on the social status and financial power that comes from taking much poorer, younger lovers.

“This is what is sold to tourists by tourism companies — a kind of return to a colonial past, where white women are served, serviced, and pampered by black minions,” said Nottinghan University’s Davidson.

Social status and financial power? Looking for a return to a colonial past? Black minons? Please! I went to see This Christmas over Thanksgiving break and actually thought I was in the wrong theater for a minute because I was surrounded, as in seriously out numbered, by pubescent little white teeny boppers girls. I wondered what was going on but then remembered that young performer Chis Brown was in the movie. Other friends (middle aged friends) say they had the same experience at other local theaters. That little boy doesn't stand a chance in America or anyplace in the Western world given that kind of fixation. He's not poor in any way and definitely won't be providing any service but entertaining a constant stream of groupies with knee pads.

I guess traveling to Kenya or the islands makes it more of an anonymous adventure but, unlike the old days, these young girls have no shame in being in brazen pursuit. I find it fascinating.