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Sugar Girls & Seamen

Sugar Girls & Seamen

http://www.sugargirlsandseamen.com

Sugar Girls & Seamen explores the world of dockside prostitution in South Africa. Based on research by Yale student Henry Trotter, it examines the social dynamics of sex work by local prostitutes with foreign sailors.

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  • History of Dockside Prostitution in South Africa

    Posted on Wednesday May 21st, 2008 at 15:00 in south africa, prostitution, ports, dockside

    While preparing my forthcoming book, Sugar Girls & Seamen, I researched and wrote an article about the history of dockside prostitution in South Africa. This exercise gave me greater insights into the reality I was encountering at the seamen's clubs ...

  • Kinky Sex on the Dockside?

    Posted on Thursday April 17th, 2008 at 06:46 in clients, johns

    Though you might think that all sex workers are sexually adventurous, many dockside sugar girls cling to a host of idiosyncratic sexual taboos. Some refuse oral sex, others kissing, and most balk at anal play. (These taboos can change if they're drun...

  • Madams, Mama-sans or Matriarchs?

    Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 03:42 in pimps, matriarchs

    On my first visit to one of the Cape Town dockside nightclubs, I saw a woman in her fifties dancing with a group of younger girls. She was dressed in a mini-skirt and already drunk. When I asked a barmaid who she was, she said, "She's the pimp of tho...

  • Gay Prostitutes and Horny Sailors

    Posted on Thursday January 31st, 2008 at 06:20 in gay, homosexuality, discretion

    Cape Town is probably the gay-friendliest city in Africa. Everyone loves pink in the Mother City. At the seamen's nightclubs, three gay guys sometimes make themselves available for manly romance. But they're not quite prostitutes: one is a taxi drive...

  • Why Don't Prostitutes Abort Their Fetuses?

    Posted on Monday January 21st, 2008 at 06:27 in pregnancy

    Since the mid-1990s, abortion has been legal in South Africa. But you wouldn't know it if you went to the dockside nightclubs where local prostitutes solicit foreign sailors. At any one time, there's always a handful of pregnant ladies hustling the s...

  • Navigating Risk

    Posted on Sunday December 9th, 2007 at 12:39 in south africa, legalization, violence, sex workers

    Lessons From the Dockside Sex Trade for Reducing Violence in South Africa's Prostitution IndustryDuring my research into dockside prostitution in Cape Town and Durban, I found that sex workers who catered to foreign sailors faced a reduced risk of vi...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Melisende

5 stars Melisende

An interesting study into a side of life that none really wish to explore, or experience, themselves. Well done Henry!

Posted: March 7th, 2009 | More Reviews From Melisende | Report This Comment

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