Kenya Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Sun, 09 Jul 2023 08:25:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kenya Archives - Mike South 32 32 1788040 Kenyan sex workers petition gov’t to list them as essential service providers https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kenyan-sex-workers-petition-govt-to-list-them-as-essential-service-providers-56771/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kenyan-sex-workers-petition-govt-to-list-them-as-essential-service-providers-56771/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:53:10 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=56771 Sex workers in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa have petitioned the government to list them as essential service providers amid the coronavirus lockdown. They argue that they have lost their source of income as a result of the global pandemic. The city, alongside Nairobi and Kilifi, were identified as COVID-19 hotspots and placed on […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kenyan-sex-workers-petition-govt-to-list-them-as-essential-service-providers-56771/feed/ 0 56771 Little that 10,000 children abused by sex tourism in Mtwapa, Kenya https://mikesouth.com/politics/little-that-10000-children-abused-by-sex-tourism-in-mtwapa-kenya-25990/ https://mikesouth.com/politics/little-that-10000-children-abused-by-sex-tourism-in-mtwapa-kenya-25990/#respond Tue, 29 May 2018 15:03:11 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=25990 A news report on the website of a major Kenyan TV station claimed that the children of Mtwapa, a coastal tourism town, were being sexually exploited. Headlined “Over 10,000 children in Mtwapa used in sex tourism”, the April 2018 Citizen TV story attributed the “shocking numbers” to poverty and economic inequality. Mtwapa lies 18 kilometres […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/politics/little-that-10000-children-abused-by-sex-tourism-in-mtwapa-kenya-25990/feed/ 0 25990 Puzzle of unsolved murders of sex workers in Nairobi https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/puzzle-of-unsolved-murders-of-sex-workers-in-nairobi-25045/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/puzzle-of-unsolved-murders-of-sex-workers-in-nairobi-25045/#respond Mon, 14 May 2018 14:17:37 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=25045 Nairobi, Kenya — Her body lay on the cold slab of Nairobi’s City Mortuary. Her bulky blonde wig covered part of her face. In life, her body had been battered by alcoholism, drug abuse and violence that sex workers endure. Now in death and without make-up, all the ugly marks of her suffering on her […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/puzzle-of-unsolved-murders-of-sex-workers-in-nairobi-25045/feed/ 0 25045 Smartphones and ‘Internet Penetration’ Help Make Kenyan Women Among Highest Porn Consumers https://mikesouth.com/industry/high-internet-penetration-helps-make-kenyan-women-among-highest-porn-consumers-21880/ https://mikesouth.com/industry/high-internet-penetration-helps-make-kenyan-women-among-highest-porn-consumers-21880/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:52:42 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=21880 Internet Penetration: According to the latest insight from PornHub for the year 2017, women in the African republic of Kenya are using their online access to view more porn than their sisters in Europe and United States. In Kenya, where 99% of internet users access internet via mobile phones, the overall ‘internet penetration’ rate (reflecting […]

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