"Telemarketers!" he sighed. "Have they no morals? Next they'll be retraining as lawyers!" Carnivorous Cow hung up the phone - another cold call, this time someone from the Medical Aid provider wanting to know why she'd not taken up the wonderful offer of a credit card she didn't want - and agreed passionately. Moving from a career that revolved around attending to wants and needs that were denied, to one which revolved around creating wants and needs that were resisted, seemed insane. There was a reason vacancies existed in positions like that - no one else was desperate enough to take them.
Still, she found it sad that the whole argument was premised on age. The age of the sex workers - apparently, those in their thirties were being outcompeted by younger women; and the age of the clients - apparently the ageing population was being blamed for the drop in demand, so to speak.
All of which seemed to fly in the face of local experience. uMalume, at 63, seemed to be as sexually active as any German youth, using up condoms faster than he could replace them. And the complainant in his rape trial, at 31 years of age, was approvingly termed a "real woman" by uMalume, who also called her "big girl". Perhaps age was more of an issue in Europe than in Africa?
But the real killer for her was the closing quote, which welcomed the move and argued the need for more people "working in care professions". The Cow assumed that the speaker was referring to nursing, but honestly, what could possibly be more accurately termed a "care profession" than sex work?