Illuminating the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, this account focuses on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors. Based on 15 months of research at the seamen's nightclubs--plus countless interviews with sugar girls, sailors, club owners, bouncers, and barmaids--this research provides a comprehensive account of dockside rendezvous in one of the busiest cultural intersections of the world. Simultaneously racy and profound, these stories, analyses, and firsthand experiences reveal a gritty world in all its raw vitality and fragile...
Illuminating the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, this account focuses on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hosp...
"Sugar Girls and Seamen" illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors.
Dockside sugar girls work at one of the busiest cultural intersections in the world. Through their continual interactions with foreign seamen, they become major traffickers in culture, ideas, languages, styles, goods, currencies, genes, and diseases. Many learn the seamen s languages, develop emotional relationships with them, have their babies, and become entangled in vast webs of connection. Henry...
"Sugar Girls and Seamen" illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who ...