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In Cuba single foreigners are quite happy. Both men and women. Because the idea that sexual tourism is exclusively for men is as untrue as Fidel’s jogging suit. Hotel discos are filled with sensual Cuban women and all that, but the streets and bars, the Casa de la Musica and the Casa de la Trova, are all packed with male hookers. Very handsome men as agile and quick with their feet as their hips. Professional “jockeys”. And the women are over the moon, Marujita Diaz style . The guys dance with them, laugh at their jokes, and in addition they have a chance to confirm the famous myth about black men. In exchange the women only have to pay for a few drinks, some food and and a gift like clothing or shampoo. The only downside is that when they travel home they can’t to tell anyone because of what people might say. Everybody knows that “the best thing about making love to Ava Gardner is being able to talk about it”. But nobody can deprive them of that memory, they think, because in the privacy of the island they do as they please without the last sign of embarrassment.

And those of us who are witnesses don’t think it’s so strange. Maybe because the guys are very willing or do not have any scruples. But the truth is that if female prostitution is pitiful, male prostitution is laughable. Or maybe it’s because when men are hungry, they have other alternatives like breaking their backs moving bricks, while women don’t have any option besides selling their bodies when things don’t go well. So, fat white guys like the ones in Pukhet or Copacabana we’ve seen very little of here. But single women with a face like they have been abducted several times we see a lot.

"Women are a symbol of the Revolution".

Although the only difference between Cuba and other Latin American countries is here you pay in kind. Maybe for that reason no one hides, because except for Miami there is no South American airport where they didn’t give us a brochure or a lecture about sex with minors being a criminal offense. In Guatemala, Costa Rica or Peru they must be very used to it, because the first thing you see on arrival is brochures issued by the Government explainingthat little girls are for sale there and you had better not buy them. Seeing all those Western intellectuals with their book in one hand and a mojito in the other and their bodies well served, one wonders if in Europe the customers that pay for this kind of service are either few and cowardly or because they are cowards we rarely see them. Tanto monta, monta tanto.