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Tonya
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Article published Saturday, September 30, 2006
TOLEDO NATIVE'S STUDY
Black professional men drawn to Rio's sex trade
Jewel Woods, a native Toledoan and doctoral student at the University of Michigan, speaks at UT’s National Conference on Prostitution, Sex Work, and the Commercial Sex Industry.
( THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER )
By KARAMAGI RUJUMBA
BLADE STAFF WRITER
For America's professional black men, Brazil has been a secret destination for sex for many years, according to a study by Jewel Woods, a Toledo native and doctoral student at the University of Michigan.
In the last couple of decades, Mr. Woods contends Rio de Janeiro has grown into a "black man's sexual paradise" for men of certain financial means, men who take weeklong excursions into the South American country's notorious sex tourism industry.
"For many years now, this practice of professional black men going to Brazil for sex has been such a big and well-kept secret," Mr. Woods, 37, told a group of about 50 participants at the University of Toledo's third
National Conference on Prostitution, Sex Work, and the Commercial Sex Industry yesterday.
It used to be an insider's tale, Mr. Woods said, mostly shared within a circle of professional black men in cities across America. But the phenomenon has grown into a hot topic of debate in African-American circles nationwide.
His research work into the practice, The New Ugly American: Professional Black Men, Sex, and Brazil, was the basis of an article in the September issue of Essence, a national magazine mostly read by black women. The Essence article, "Blame it on Rio," sparked a debate that has since been sizzling in African-American chat rooms online, on national radio talk shows, and at college symposiums.
A PhD student in social work and sociology, Mr. Woods said he didn't know about the phenomenon until two years ago when he heard about it from a friend, who, in turn, had heard about it from another friend.
Mr. Woods, a community organizer who in 1994 founded Community Outreach Initiatives Inc., a mentoring program for African-American youths in Toledo, said he was intrigued at the prospect of researching the phenomenon because of his interest in studying the attitudes and behaviors of middle-class black men.
After conducting interviews with 50 black male professionals in Toledo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, New York City, Washington, Los Angeles, and Charlotte, he concluded that an estimated 2,000 black professionals make annual trips to Brazil.
"These are highly accomplished men in various fields, from company executives to doctors and lawyers," he said.
The recent revelation about these sex vacations, much like the debate in the African-American community with the unraveling of the "down-low culture" a few years ago - black heterosexual men having relations with other men - is critical in understanding issues of masculinity, male privilege, and morality.
"This is not just about men seeking sex in Brazil," said Mr. Woods, a New Voices Fellow at UM. "We need to ask ourselves why the most coveted men in the black community are going overseas on these sex trips.
"What is it that they are not finding fulfillment about their lives here? There is an absolute societal poverty when it comes to understanding men, and in particular professional black men," he said.
The issue is all about gender and societal affirmation, said William Jelani Cobb, an assistant professor of history at Spelman College in Atlanta. He spent a week in the streets, restaurants, and night clubs of Rio de Janeiro gathering research for his freelance story published in Essence.
"It was obvious in Rio that many of the black men were mostly there for more than sex. It was more psychological than it was sexual," he recalled. "From the minute you arrive at the airport, all you hear from these very beautiful women is how much they like black men and how attractive you are. It is that kind of affirmation that has been attracting black men to Rio for many years."
Mr. Cobb wrote a daily online diary for Essence during his trip to Brazil that attracted a storm of chat-room debate about why black men go there and their responsibility in society as trailblazing professionals.
He said he was not surprised by the ensuing debate, but he was surprised by the number of people who had not heard about the phenomenon.
"There was a lot of anger about the story," he said. "Many black men hated it. They felt that it should not have been discussed, and some women felt a sense of betrayal by black men."
But both Mr. Woods and Mr. Cobb, who have been featured panelists on national talk radio shows including the syndicated Michael Eric Dyson Show, and News & Notes with Ed Gordon on National Public Radio, said this phenomenon underlines a much bigger dialogue that needs to happen within the African-American community.
"Professional black men are one of the most marginalized groups of people in this country," Mr. Woods said. "The process of becoming a professional is itself very isolating for many black men, who often find themselves challenged by situations in their professional and private lives that they are not prepared for."
Some of those challenges include explaining why there is an increasingly smaller number of black males on college campuses, and a growing tension between professional black men and women, Mr. Woods said. Many young black males are never really prepared to assume the identity that comes along with their success, he added.
"In Rio, these men experience a sense of class validation that is rare. In many instances, many of them said that they did not feel like they were looked at as just symbols of success in their community," he explained.
Seated in her office at UT, Celia Williamson, a leading scholar on street prostitution and the driving force behind yesterday's national conference, said Mr. Woods' study is ground-breaking not only for delving into the international sex trade, but also for looking at a "protected class" of men who generally never get profiled in prostitution studies.
"It is a very interesting look at prostitution that challenges us with many questions," Ms. Williamson said.
"What does it mean for men who have been oppressed for many years to take on oppressive roles in another country?"
Contact Karamagi Rujumba at:
krujumba@theblade.com or
419-724-6064
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060930/NEWS08/609300304 |
Ntfs_encryption
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Nice article....... |
Igbogirl
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Ewwww |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 04:39 pm: |
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Tonya,
What about all those middle-age Black and White American and European women who troll Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies to score cheap, young Black dyck? |
Ntfs_encryption
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"What about all those middle-age Black and White American and European women who troll Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies to score cheap, young Black dyck?"
ABM, you and I both know why those single black and white women of all ages go. I've heard black women brag about meeting St. Jock for a little recreational tryst. It's another example of the unwritten double standard.
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Abm
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Ntfs,
There is DEFINITELY a double-standard.
A man (especially a BLACK one) get's him a piece overseas, and he's some evil, abusive, exploitive American John.
A woman (especially a Black one) get's her chili sauce stirred up overseas, and the shyt's made out to be some kinda bvllshyt female liberation issue.
Lemme tell you, chief: A LOT of those Black and White chicks who are chasin' Caribbean dyck are NOT single. |
Igbogirl
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I read that a lot of black American men are also travelling to Thailand to indulge in sex with children. Also, the black male sex tourism to Brazil is not all about having sex with WOMEN. White men and black men alike go there to fuck man in him batty. Lets just hope for all their sakes that they are using condoms, at least. |
Igbogirl
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I met one of those rent-a-dreads in Negril. He offered to go with me for free but I turned him down: he wasn't sexy to me. He told me that a lot of the Rastas were so poor that they were letting American men (mainly white men but some black American men) fuck them up the battyhole in exchange for money for food and rent. So sad. There was one particular he said where you would see Rastas being taken vigorously up the anus by American male sex tourists. |
Abm
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Igbogirl,
Would you agree to take it up the "batty" so as to help relieve some of the pressure from those poor Thai foks? |
Abm
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Igbogirl,
You sure are ESPECIALLY interested in guys boning other guys.
Maybe you are some White male troll. |
Igbogirl
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Sorry, no. But if you show me your cock, I will certainly take a look at it......
and then I will laugh |
Lil_ze
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 06:11 pm: |
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whats wrong with screwing whores?
women from brazil are very hot.
screwing whores for money can be GREAT FUN! |
Igbogirl
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[URL=http://www.urbnmix.net/index.php/code/akon_i_wanna_fuck_you_ft_snoop_dogg/]akon - i wanna fuck you (ft snoop dogg)[/URL] |
Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 07:27 pm: |
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HTML doesn't work on this forum - it requires BBC/UBB. And if you'd get on your job and start sucking more Black dicks instead of all those white ones, perhaps our Black professionals wouldn't need to go all the way to Brazil to get their groove on. Get on your job InkyDinkyDooDoo - YOU CAN DO IT!!! Keep the Black man here!!! |
Ntfs_encryption
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”I read that a lot of black American men are also traveling to Thailand to indulge in sex with children.”
No you didn’t! That’s a lie. The over whelming majority of men who seek sex tours for children are white men, especially from Europe.
”White men and black men alike go there to fuck man in him batty.”
That’s what pedophiles do. They fuck both male and female children. But you should know that. From where you came from, I’m sure you have quite a few stories to tell about the rape of children –including yourself!. And now that you are an adult, your delirious bragging about white men giving it to you up the poop would certainly qualify you as a subject matter expert.
”Lets just hope for all their sakes that they are using condoms, at least.”
I agree. But we all know they don’t use condoms from where you’re from! That’s for damn sure. Don’t forget, the highest rate of AIDS in the world (and getting worse every single day) comes from your homies!
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Igbogirl
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hot sex on a platter. burning penis on a platter. but you might say it doesn't matter. hot sex on a platter. hot sex on a platter
nigerians actually use condoms and are aware of the importance of safe sex. but that is generally, with exceptions, the middle and upper class Nigerians. The ones who feel they have something to lose. the poor and marginalized ones tend to be more at risk for AIDs. Just like the jigaboo men in America. You did know that black men make up the majority of AIDs cases in this country? |
Igbogirl
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For Ntfs:
1 in 50 black men in America are HIV+ you nasty motherfuckers!!!
Men ages 40 to 44 have more cases of HIV infection than men in other age groups, and in this age group there were more black men than white or Hispanic men with HIV. However, fewer black women than white or Hispanic women had HIV infections, except in the 20-24 age group, where more blacks than Hispanics had HIV. |
Igbogirl
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Oh and HIV infections among black women are now soaring among certain age group. Guess why. Its almost purely because of black men who go upside the anus of gay infected men but lie to their black women and pretend they are hetero. You fucking murdering scumbag assholes
http://www.azcentral.com/health/women/articles/0207AIDSwomen07-ON.html |
Schakspir
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Igbopygmy: I met one of those rent-a-dreads in Negril. He offered to go with me for free but I turned him down: he wasn't sexy to me.
Schakspir: You were in the wrong country; you meant to be in Poland or Austria, sucking on white pig dick, you baboon. |
Ntfs_encryption
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"You did know that black men make up the majority of AIDs cases in this country?"
And? I knew that. But how do you know you don't have AIDS since that is the health standard of where you're from? And given your admitted addiction to gang bangs with multiple sex partners, that raises questions also. Not to mention your obsession for feces and peoples anus's. Or has your fear of black men driven you to fucking and gleefully ingesting the body fluids of white men? Which is it? Be honest now.
Black women also represented 69% of all AIDS diagnoses made in women in general in 2004, though they make up just 12 – 13% of the population! And since you like to throw statistics around, did you know between 2001 and 2004, the rates for HIV were 58.3 for every 100,000 black females compared to 2.2 for whites, 15 for Hispanics and 2.8 for Asians and Pacific Islanders? The rate for HIV was almost three times as high for the next most infected group. Interesting.
But enough of that. I'm not going to run down American black women in order to trade racist digs and insults back in forth with your childish bush monkey ass. Instead, I would rather focus on your bizarre antics without degrading American black women. Besides, given your sordid sexual history and origins, you are much easier target.
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Igbogirl
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And? I knew that. But how do you know you don't have AIDS since that is the health standard of where you're from?
Um. Let's see. How do I know I don't have AIDs? Could it be because I have tested negative? Could it be because I always practise safe sex? You fucking dumb HIV spreading small brained cuntish nigger |
Mzuri
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So you were practicing safe sex during the ménage à trois and the gangbangs and all your other sexual transgressions with the white fags that you consort with? I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but it's confirmed that you have AIDS bitch, your brain is deteriorating by the minute. Hurry up and make some more posts slut, you could drop dead at any moment. |
Fortified
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WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Ntfs_encryption
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"Um. Let's see. How do I know I don't have AIDs? Could it be because I have tested negative? Could it be because I always practise safe sex?"
That's a lie! I don't believe you. You are too fanatical about anal gang bangs and the taste of white cum in your mouth to do so. So stop lying! You are not being honest Igbogirl! Every other post you make references feces and something about the anus. You’re obsessed! But I'm not hatin' babe. I feel you should act out your cravings as needed. You certainly couldn't do it when you were back in the bush with your African male homies being that the AIDS rate is 8 out 10. The stakes are too high. Better to act it out in America where it's safer. Enjoy…..
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Igbogirl
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yeah, whatever |
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