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The price of luxury: The perils of transactional sex in South Africa

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.

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