Prostitute who ‘serviced’ thousands in 23 years, gets land as retirement benefit (Photos)

A 40-year-old prostitute, Sarah Mutero, who claimed to have ‘serviced’ several thousands of men in the course of 23 years of active commercial sex work, received a parcel of land as part of her retirement benefits from wellwishers.

Mutero received a parcel of land worth Sh120,000 (about $1,190) in Makuyu, Murang’a County, in Kenya.

For 23 years, Mutero had been a sex worker, having serviced thousands of men at her hometown of Embu, Nairobi city centre and in Majengo area.

She claims she would service 20 or more men in a day in her younger years. But as age set in, with hard economic times and stiff competition, she could only manage four customers daily.

This means an average of 100 men per month and in 23 years, she has taken care of thousands of men, her interviewer surmised.

“It is not an easy thing to satisfy such a big number of men, some being ruthless, yet we end up poor.

“We earn peanuts that we can’t even save. Everything I have earned in servicing needy men went to clothes, shelter and food for my children as well as education,” she said.

She warns that in sex business, pricing is determined by standards and location.

Meanwhile, some well-wishers have promised to pool funds to build her a house after she left her commercial sex work.

Stanley Ngara, aka King of Condoms of LVCT who is spearheading a programme to help sex workers quit in a humane way, said sex workers have played an important role in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

“Men will seek sex in all ways, but when it comes to sex workers, it is a different game.

“They don’t accept intercourse without condoms; however, many men insist on paying more for unprotected sex.

“Society has a negative perception of sex workers; but in reality, they are on the front line in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases,” said Ngara

He added; “Their clients are men in other relationships and from surveys, seven out of 10 clients ask for unprotected sex.

“Out of these seven, five are willing to pay handsomely. If they accept such deals, you can imagine how HIV/AIDS can spread.

“We must appreciate them with a retirement package.”