PROSTITUTES DEVISE NEW STRATEGIES TO ENTICE CUSTOMERS (MIRROR, PAGE 34)

From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu,
Takoradi
Sex workers in the twin-city of Sekondi/Takoradi have designed a new approach to entice customers to enhance their trade.
They now allow the prospective customers to physically examine them by fondling their breasts, touching their private parts and their backs. If the customers are satisfied after the physical examination they proceed to negotiate a fee before proceeding for “business”.
According to some of the sex workers who spoke to The Mirror, they are patronised by some prominent members of society, who visit them during the late hours of the night when human traffic on the streets has reduced.
This reporter visited Sekondi where people smoke “wee” openly but prostitution is done discreetly.
There are different rates, the highest being GH¢4 and the clients are foreigners, especially foreign fishermen on the fishing vessels that berth at Sekondi/Takoradi.
At Takoradi, near the taxi rank, the prostitutes constitute the bulk of patrons of a particular hotel in the area. The prostitutes line up in front of the hotel and across the street at about 7:30 p.m. especially at weekends.
When this reporter and his escort got to the vicinity, they were greeted with nice smiles with three words in “Fante” (we are coming) from ladies lined up in groups in front of the hotel.
There were other customers who entered with the reporter and his escort: To the surprise of the reporter, two of the ladies walked majestically to them and asked if they will like to conduct an inspection here or inside.
The two ladies pulled their blouses down, exposing their breasts and asked them to feel them to see whether they met their expectation or if they could follow them to the room so they could remove their cloths off for them to take a critical look.
“If we take our cloths and you don’t like it, we can call another person for you but if you like it then we can negotiate if you want us to be in our rooms at the hotel or in your car or your house and that would determine how much to charge,” one of them said.