Prostitution is not a respectable profession in Mali, but it is a flourishing one, with poverty pushing many women, even girls as young as 12, into selling their charms.
A Swiss woman and two Malians run an organisation to help sex workers with the many problems they face, including their health and the care of their children.
“Here, the woman’s sexual pleasure doesn’t count for much, and as a result she thinks of sex as an economic transaction,” Sylvia Sangaré Mollet told swissinfo.ch.
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She doesn’t mince her words: people hide behind Islam, they go to the mosque, but 90 per cent frequent prostitutes and of the remaining ten per cent, three-quarters are unfaithful.
According to F.T., the majority of Malian women convert their charms into money –servants, schoolgirls and even married women, when their husbands don’t give them enough money to buy nice clothes.
“In Mali people marry for social reasons, not for love,” she added. Full story...
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A Swiss woman and two Malians run an organisation to help sex workers with the many problems they face, including their health and the care of their children.
“Here, the woman’s sexual pleasure doesn’t count for much, and as a result she thinks of sex as an economic transaction,” Sylvia Sangaré Mollet told swissinfo.ch.
(...)
She doesn’t mince her words: people hide behind Islam, they go to the mosque, but 90 per cent frequent prostitutes and of the remaining ten per cent, three-quarters are unfaithful.
According to F.T., the majority of Malian women convert their charms into money –servants, schoolgirls and even married women, when their husbands don’t give them enough money to buy nice clothes.
“In Mali people marry for social reasons, not for love,” she added. Full story...
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