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A few weeks ago, a Swiss national and 11 sex workers caught the attention of the media when they were allegedly caught pants down by police shooting an adult video with a dog. Kenyan police walked in on them with the Swiss pensioner behind the camera as the 11 women, many of them students at a college in Mombasa, engaged the German shepherd.
The case has since made it to the Kenyan courts and the case is on-going. Whether this allegation is proven in the court of law or not remains to be seen, but it has definitely left many who heard about it wondering and asking themselves, just how far commercial sex workers would go for money.
It is evident that with globalisation and the free flow of information and the de-regularised media, our morals have gone to the dogs, figuratively speaking. But this story that happened in Mombasa, whether true or false, shows the new low that our collective morals have reached.
Tanzania shares a long history with Kenya pre-dating the slave trade era. Our cultures are so intertwined and with the rebirth of the East African Community that promises the free flow of people, goods and services between these two neighbours, our experiences are bound to be similar.
