A growing number of middle-class housewives secretly work as prostítutes, it has now been established.
Although accurate statistics are hard to come by, we have
evidence that some of these women are so successful at it that they have
even invested and own shopping boutiques and apartments within the
city. And you guessed right: their husbands don’t know what their wives
do.
The greedy ones do it for (more) money. But some do it to add thrill and adventure to dreary middle-class lives.
We met with a married prostítute on Wednesday at 11.30am. We had
spoken on phone previously and for obvious reasons, she wasn’t keen to
talk to journalists. Eventually, she agreed to be interviewed.
After waiting for ten minutes, she came driving a Toyota Saloon and,
without getting out of the car, told us to follow her to a restaurant.
She was polished, her spoken English flawless.
“Listen, it’s not like I do something illegal or go out to the
streets to wait for clients. Many women do it,” she began defensively.
Rachel (not her real name) has been married for seven years and has two children, both male. She refuses to disclose their ages.
“I have a husband that I love very much. He is a business man and he gave me some capital to start my own business,” she says.
The business wasn’t doing very well and one of her regular clients,
also married, was keen to sleep with her, so she jokingly suggested that
he stocks her business.
“He immediately sent me to his car to get his cheque book and wrote
me a cheque for N75,000. He wanted to sleep with me in exchange and I
saw no reason not to since we were both married and had to go home
before midnight,” says Rachel.
After that incident, she has never looked back. She dates rich
married men, who fund her businesses. She now owns four shopping
boutiques in various parts of town and says she is putting up rental.
“There are a lot of rich men who would gladly pay to have my company
for a few hours every day,” says Rachel. Her husband believes she has
made all that money from her businesses.
All her clothes shops have different secret partners who are her lovers.
“They are partners but nothing is written down. I pleaded with them
to give me the capital to fund the business. Some contribute a little
but I doubt they want anything back,” says Rachel.
The trick, she says, is to once in a while send the man N20,000 as his share of profits.
“They laugh and tell me to plow it back into the business. Or when we
meet, they even spend more on me. I am not a prostítute, I am just a
business woman who never lets go of an opportunity,” says Rachel.
Then she drops a bombshell: Nearly all her friends, who are married, also have other men paying them for séx.
“I don’t know why people fool themselves. A woman who has children
will do a lot of things to secure a bright future for her kids. Your
wife will sleep with her boss for a promotion; she will sleep with
another man to fund her business.”
“It doesn’t mean she doesn’t love you. Actually, she loves you so
much. That’s why she doesn’t want to pass financial burdens to you yet
she wants a good life for her family.
I have shares here and there. Some were gifts from previous lovers. I
have the shops and I will not rest until my net worth comes to N200
million. I will do everything to get there,” says Rachel.
Tellingly, although she claims to be worth a tidy sum, she walks out
of our meeting leaving me with a N3,000 bill, even though all I took was
water while she ate chicken and had a glass of wine.
Rachel also referred us to another woman she calls her ‘godmother’ in
the business. She owns an apartment and several flats in the city.
Her ‘godmothers’ first block of flats was built for her more than a
decade ago by a Caucasian male ‘client’ she met. Her husband died four
years ago, and she still does prostítution on the side and has built
more rental houses.
Although we were given her contacts, she refused to meet us and stopped picking our calls.
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