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"Rent-a-dread"
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Jamaica is a carnal kind of country, and while there's no sex tourism industry as such, monetary-based holiday liaisons are a well-established convention. Middle-aged women strolling hand in hand with handsome young studs has become so normal that pejorative epithets - "
Rent-a-dread
" or "
Rastitute
" - for the young men who make a career out of these cynical liaisons have entered the lexicon.
Negril is a centre for this kind of trade-off, and many women regularly return specifically to partake of an injection of "Jamaican steel". As a result, single women are almost unanimously assumed to be out for one thing only - prepare yourself for a barrage of propositions.
Male tourists are less involved in the holiday romance scenario, but
female prostitutes
are common and men should expect to be frequently propositioned. If you do choose to indulge, make sure that you practise safer sex; one in five prostitutes are HIV-positive, and STDs - including syphilis - are rife. Other useful information
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Jamaica,
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