Cameroon: Twin 'Sex Vendors; Talk About the Trade
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The Post (Buea)
29 August 2008
Posted to the web 29 August 2008
Robert Tumasang
With her hair gathered and perched nicely to one side, her chocolate face void of any make-up, yet strikingly beautiful, her red tee-shirt knotted just above the navel, revealing that rather provocating fur plus a tight-fitting jeans trousers to match, Jordane (that is how she calls herself), sashays into a thickly populated bar in Bertoua main town, commonly called "temple de la joie'.
A few minutes later, she wriggles through the animated crowd, her slender fingers holding the tips of a young man's fingers who trails her from behind.The two move across the road and disappear into a dark pathway.
Five minutes after, Jordane re-emerges from the pathway, saunters across the road and disappears into the bar opposite. The man with whom she went comes back to the road and hires a bike and leaves the place as if the two had never known each other in years.
Jordane repeats the same scenario three times in a space of just one hour and, of course, with different men. The message is clear; this woman is trading in sex.This reporter moves up to Jordane, spends some money to wring out information from her.
"I don't even know that guy," she confesses when asked about the last man she had just gone out with."All I needed from him was money and he wanted sex from me. We exchanged the services," she confessed with a giggle.
She said the man in question was her 4th client that Saturday evening, and the time was still just 11pm. She further said that she takes FCFA 1000 from men to make them ejaculate but "you must use a condom," she remarked.
"Without a condom, I charge the dissuasive price of FCFA 10000." Asked how she got into the sex trade, Jordane instead frowns and threatens to leave saying that she was already wasting a lot of time "answering useless questions and losing my clients." She got FCFA 2000 more from this reporter to stay on for a while.
In an almost remorseful hindsight, Jordane resuscitates the past."My parents died in a ghastly car accident. I and my twin sister were barely eleven years of age. There was no one to cater for us. What could we do then? Even if we didn't want to go into this, the pressure from men was too over-bearing, and that is how it all started".
"It has been really difficult for us...imagine sleeping with men you don't even know, talk less of loving them! But we really had no choice," she tries to justify herself.She reveals that it is possible that she could have slept with the same man as her sister, "but we always do everything to avoid that." She says it is possible for her to bag home between FCFA 12,000 and FCFA 15,000 a night.
Melise, her twin sister, has of recent been trying to shake off her past. She now sells barbecued fish in Bertoua, but the shadow of her past still haunts her.Asked to comment on her past, Melise simply shrugs.
"I enjoy what I am doing right now," she says, a smile of triumph spreading across her face. She wishes her sister followed her example.But Jordane is not enjoying the prostitute life she is living.
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"I am 29 years today and it's time I got something more worthy, and fast too". She then pirouettes on the tip of her left shoe and saunters off into the streets, leaving those words in her trail.
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