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Now, he',s returned to investigate those looking for sex and a relationship British women are travelling to The Gambia for relationships with black men — I have learnt to not judge them. Seyi Rhodes was intrigued by the British women he met when first visiting Gambia in 2007. Now, he’s returned to investigate those looking for sex.
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I first visited The Gambia over ten years ago. It was my last stop on a short backpacking adventure around West Africa and I never forgot the experience. So much so that I wanted to unpack some of the things I saw when I first visited the country, so this year I went back to make a documentary for Channel 4 called Sex On The Beach . Back in 2007 The Gambia was becoming known as a tourist destination for Brits looking for cheap holidays with guaranteed winter sun. Nobody told me the other bit: The Gambia is a place where an older white woman could easily have sex with a young black man, as long as she showers him with gifts and money. It’s a sex tourism destination, but this time, for women. In Gambia, the bars are full of white women mingling with black men half their age. When a white woman walks down the beach, muscular young men in tiny shorts ‘jog’ alongside her, smiling and trying to make eye contact, begging her to, “Let me be your friend, let me take you out, show you a good time.†It doesn’t matter how old she is – in fact, the older she is, the more attention she gets. On my first trip I was treated like a local – and not just any local. People thought I was a “bumster†– local slang for a beach boy who chases white women. I was stopped from entering certain hotels and restaurants as the security guards were always conscious that their establishment was a place where women would come to escape the male attention they get outside. So if I was allowed in, it would only be at a white persons request. Even showing my British passport didn’t change that. I’d be told the hotel was for ‘guests only’. Of course my white friends weren’t guests, but they would stroll in and be greeted with massive smiles. The British tourists I met on my trip were brazen. At one point I was standing in a bar and a pair of hands pulled me backwards by the waist. I fell into the lap of a drunk British woman in her late 50s. She was giggling to her friends, “I like this one!†I was frozen in place, wondering what the hell possessed this woman to think she could grab at me like that. Within seconds her hand was up my t-shirt, having a grope, and then she offered to buy me a drink. This happened years before #MeToo, but I knew what had just happened. The Gambia was once a major slave-trading port and The British Empire used this region for its people. Black people could be bought, sold, shipped abroad, raped and forced to work – legally. By British standards at the time, slavery was already seen as morally wrong and was outlawed in the UK, but it was still allowed in Gambia. In many ways the same convention still applies. Women from Britain – where there are thousands of young, single black men – choose instead to come to Gambia looking for sex and a relationship with a black man. In Gambia, a British woman’s money and power buys her things she could never have at home. In the years since my first trip the phenomenon of female sex tourists in Gambia has become a staple of British tabloids. The focus is always on the women: their sex lives, their finances and their feelings. The men are never interviewed, but they are described as love-cheats, rats and scammers. Read More. I went back to make a documentary about all this because I wanted to meet those men and find out what motivates them, without letting myself think I know their lives better than they do. I’m now old enough to know what it feels like to be lonely and to get older but still feel young at heart. I can see how women over 50 become almost invisible to society and appreciate what that must feel like.
Article about white women seeking black men:
Now, he',s returned to investigate those looking for sex and a relationship British women are travelling to The Gambia for relationships with black men — I have learnt to not judge them. Seyi Rhodes was intrigued by the British women he met when first visiting Gambia in 2007. Now, he’s returned to investigate those looking for sex.
Click here for White women seeking black men
I first visited The Gambia over ten years ago. It was my last stop on a short backpacking adventure around West Africa and I never forgot the experience. So much so that I wanted to unpack some of the things I saw when I first visited the country, so this year I went back to make a documentary for Channel 4 called Sex On The Beach . Back in 2007 The Gambia was becoming known as a tourist destination for Brits looking for cheap holidays with guaranteed winter sun. Nobody told me the other bit: The Gambia is a place where an older white woman could easily have sex with a young black man, as long as she showers him with gifts and money. It’s a sex tourism destination, but this time, for women. In Gambia, the bars are full of white women mingling with black men half their age. When a white woman walks down the beach, muscular young men in tiny shorts ‘jog’ alongside her, smiling and trying to make eye contact, begging her to, “Let me be your friend, let me take you out, show you a good time.†It doesn’t matter how old she is – in fact, the older she is, the more attention she gets. On my first trip I was treated like a local – and not just any local. People thought I was a “bumster†– local slang for a beach boy who chases white women. I was stopped from entering certain hotels and restaurants as the security guards were always conscious that their establishment was a place where women would come to escape the male attention they get outside. So if I was allowed in, it would only be at a white persons request. Even showing my British passport didn’t change that. I’d be told the hotel was for ‘guests only’. Of course my white friends weren’t guests, but they would stroll in and be greeted with massive smiles. The British tourists I met on my trip were brazen. At one point I was standing in a bar and a pair of hands pulled me backwards by the waist. I fell into the lap of a drunk British woman in her late 50s. She was giggling to her friends, “I like this one!†I was frozen in place, wondering what the hell possessed this woman to think she could grab at me like that. Within seconds her hand was up my t-shirt, having a grope, and then she offered to buy me a drink. This happened years before #MeToo, but I knew what had just happened. The Gambia was once a major slave-trading port and The British Empire used this region for its people. Black people could be bought, sold, shipped abroad, raped and forced to work – legally. By British standards at the time, slavery was already seen as morally wrong and was outlawed in the UK, but it was still allowed in Gambia. In many ways the same convention still applies. Women from Britain – where there are thousands of young, single black men – choose instead to come to Gambia looking for sex and a relationship with a black man. In Gambia, a British woman’s money and power buys her things she could never have at home. In the years since my first trip the phenomenon of female sex tourists in Gambia has become a staple of British tabloids. The focus is always on the women: their sex lives, their finances and their feelings. The men are never interviewed, but they are described as love-cheats, rats and scammers. Read More. I went back to make a documentary about all this because I wanted to meet those men and find out what motivates them, without letting myself think I know their lives better than they do. I’m now old enough to know what it feels like to be lonely and to get older but still feel young at heart. I can see how women over 50 become almost invisible to society and appreciate what that must feel like.