The price of luxury: The perils of transactional sex in South Africa
Society
February 22, 2023
Designer handbags, arms dripping with jewellery, vacations in exotic locations: The pressure on young women in South Africa to look the part is extraordinarily high. But behind their carefully-curated social media accounts lies a much darker lifestyle built on transactional sex. We spoke to women in Johannesburg who reveal how the so-called soft life comes with hard sacrifices.