You don’t haffi dread to be a man prostitute

What are the other job opportunities in Senegal left besides dancing, singing, and wrestling? Hint: it’s the oldest profession in the world ? La réponse en vers:

“Et l’homme pute fut.”                                                                                                                  tout de dreads et de karité vêtu….”                                                                                       (NK)

Poétique non?

As I am waiting on my order aka my Sunday treat to myself, I have this sudden urge to talk about prostitution. Le coeur a ses raisons que …..voila quoi…

I miss my dreads dearly every day, the way they used to fall on my face, the weight, the red tips, and the unique feeling in the water and the fan club I had.

HOWEVER, a couple reasons help me go by. For instance, I’m not mistaken for a singer, a dancer, or a guitarist anymore. But mostly I don’t have to explain the political reasons why I got dreads in the first place…. all the time…. to people who at the end of the day just think I am Americanized. Anyway, back to the corniche Ouest men…, my young entrepreneurial whores if you will.

What the fuck doe menwhores have to do with my dreads? Patience is a virtue. For once, this is not about women being prostitutes. We know about them, shit’s getting old. This is about menwhores. Wait no… men prostitutes because “whoring” supposes some type of fun and “prostituting” has a more professional connotation, you know with a salary, insurance, stds and other benefits.

I see the Corniche everyday and everything it has to offer, the views, the coconuts and the “athletes”??? *clears throat*. In my various jobs, I have been a translator for some Saudis. And as we were heading to a meeting downtown enjoying the corniche view and stuck in traffic, Saudi boss said “hey nk, I notice Senegalese really like working out”, I laughed it off and said ‘’yep gotta stay healthy”.

As I took a better look at the runners, weight lifters and such…. I noticed 3/4th of the people there were men…. And 80% had things growing from their scalps we can assimilate to ‘’dreads” for lack of a better category and 75% of those were “sightseeing” some older toubabs, or the other way around to get themselves out of “poverty”. (Well there comes the connection with my dreads. “Aaaaaah ok’’.) I am ashamed that dreads have that connotation of being one of the main characteristics of a Senegalese man prostitute / body builder/ old toubab magnet. I think this post is going to give the real and the fake mixed couples a rest (and yes you made the right supposition, old toubab with young very dark senegazelle). Men prostitutes. Dang. As much as I despise sexual tourism, I think women prostitutes can use a little break, anyway they are more professional, they got cards and stuff.

Menprostitutes all look alike. They are fine like the selection of actors that Tyler Perry chooses, but they are also athletic, broke and desperate. They work harder than the girls because like Kid Cudi, they work day and night I guess to double the profit, go boys! They are not necessarily multi-lingual as that is not their tongue’s main fonction…. nahmean? (hahaha I know, low blow). I’d like to mention the fact that their services are not solely used by cougars on vacation, they are also used by local old married women who pretend to work out…. as MPs often offers their help to be personnal trainers, pretty ricky style. I guess it’s part of the Wade’s political campaign on the “consommation locale”.

Menprostitutes claim that life is hard and that’s the only way they found to get by,they claim that life is a bitch so they became… bitches to compete with life?? A lion needs its cougar… I just thought I’d shout men prostitutes out on dkfresh, gotta respect the elders you know.

Respectfully yours,

NK