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[–]lefterfield 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Is it...? My impression is that it's mocking middle-aged women who go to Africa to pick up men. I suppose they might be fetishizing the men, but the men who sleep with them might be doing the same. If so... kinda crude I guess, but I don't see how it implies prostitution?

[–]just_lesbian_things 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

middle-aged women who go to Africa to pick up men

It's sometimes called beach boys. This isn't something that just "comes up", they must have researched it. I watched a documentary about it a few years ago. There's sex tourism in Africa where middle-aged+ white women go and pay impoverished African men for sex. The premise is similar to that of middle-age white men going to Asia to pay impoverished Asian women for sex. (Outcome is different, because men are men and women are women- men don't have pimps, men don't get pregnant, and boys are not typically preyed on by older women). Of course, it doesn't describe every instance, but it's definitely a trend. The joke is on the white women who do it, but some people might argue that people being prostituted shouldn't be something to laugh about.

[–]lefterfield 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hmm, ok. Thanks for the context.

[–]Veneficca 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not just white women. I've seen articles about black and Japanese women who do the same, often in Jamaica or the DR.