The difficult financial month, January

We are in January. The resolutions have already failed. Last month's earnings have already been spent and there is not enough food in the houses. The children look unfed. The smiles are gone. The parents are looking forward to month end. The sex worker rates have been lowered because of competition.

Anywhere else business for sex workers would be at a minimum, but here, in Southern Africa sex workers are keeping an eye on the month end too. Those men who have no food at home, whose wives are worried about what to feed the children, can screw on credit. When they eventually earn, the sex workers will earn too. The practice keeps the trade going even in hard financial times.

However, fewer practitioners can afford condoms. Wives are at higher risk during January.