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Nairobi women are always asking for Sh5,000

Sleeping with several men while making money out of them is not any different from commercial sex work

A female friend with a foul sense of humour recently shared one of those viral jokes on WhatsApp. The joke went something like, ‘if we had a speed-dating forum in Nairobi where you interact with potential partners and you must state what you want from each other under 10 seconds, there will still be a Nairobian chick who will request Sh 5,000 to give it back to you in a week’s time.

A spot check on the number of women who pay back is zero. Damn! This is singularly the most exasperating, pernicious and repugnant behaviour that all men in Nairobi wish that women just stopped.

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