This issue of condoms is particularly relevant given the current scourge of HIV/AIDS. Following some information from one Ghanaian woman who was not directly interviewed one of the Ghanaian woman interviewed said she was HIV positive but had been infected not by a customer but by her own boyfriend. The women had boyfriends with whom they had unprotected sex. Some of these boyfriends as it turned out were some sort of 'pimps'. They were looked after by their girlfriends in terms of food, alcohol and cigarettes. In return the boyfriends protected them from unscrupulous or violent customers who might try to avoid payment or mistreat the women. Collectively however it seemed the women were quite capable of protecting themselves. On one occasion a drunken customer who could not pay was virtually stripped naked and given a sound beating by a group of women who came to the aid of their "cheated sister".
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