THEY are not gigolos; they are hired sex tools of sorts, who do commercial prostitution.  They are recruited by close friends and swear to secrecy.

Love for them is outside the equation. Shayne lives on Entebbe Road, you would expect his confession to push you into a bout of tantalizing libido, but it instead leaves a chilling spine.

Shayne says he  first hooked up a group of partying rich women in one of the popular discotheques in Kampala. ‘A friend invited me to join him at a table that was full of all tribes of booze.  That night we drunk the till wee hoursof the morning; I actually had fun but nothing happened.

Before the women drove off in their respective cars, one of them stored my mobile phone number,’ Shayne intimates. A day later, Shayne received a call from one of the women he met in the club, inviting him for a house party.

He was hesitant, claiming that he did not know the Ministers’ village very well. However, his false claim fell flat when she offered to pick him from any known point in Ntinda. An hour later, Shayne was in the Ministers’ village, boozing.

He found his other friend who introduced him to the women while they were in the club.  They partied throughout the night, but the party was for four couples, and nobody left that night.

Shayne says that night he slept with the hostess and in the morning, he was given sh200, 000 before he left, but was told to keep it confidential as long as he wanted more benefits.

In the subsequent days, Shayne was assured that nobody, among the women, was committed to him but he would be called any time to have fun, and he would be facilitated for his time and transport.

At first it was fun for Shayne, but the fun faded when he was introduced to extra fat women, some of them 20 years older than him. Shayne says his sexual desires died permanently and he became depressed.

Well, Shayne says there are many guys doing this; he discovered this after he fully got involved into the vice; he meets them so often, at times on the same mission, but sometimes at social parties; their age range from early 20s to early 30s, and these fall into three categories: the hang-ons for popular artistes; they regard themselves as crew members of the artistes, but they have no specific job they do save for loitering around with singers. 

They are chanced on this lucrative business because they are always hanging on the artistes, they attend  flashy parties, where they drink like fish thus hooking up the prospective clients.

Another category includes the ‘street smart,’ they pretend to be dealers, yet they have nothing tangible; but the only asset they are proud of is the smartness. Due to perpetual brokeness, these guys are easily lured into commercial sex.

Like the above two categories, there is a third category, which is made of innocent lot; these include shamba boys, house boys and garage mechanics.  These are less paid because they are bullied; but again they look at it as a prestige to sleep with a rich woman.

However, Shayne says, all the categories are prior warned not to let the cat out of the bag. ‘The women tell you that if you talk about them in public, they will zip your lips permanently, ‘Shayne explains.

'Bangamba nti Ssente ya kikyala siyakuzanyilwako,’ he adds in Luganda meaning that they told me that a woman’s coin cannot be played with. Others, she says are the hair stylists and the nail painters. 

These too have their moments. Some of these are lured to the homes of these women, some of whom live alone. Shayne says most women who are into this vice are between 35 years to 55 years, but they are also classi ed as follows:  There are businesswomen, who never get enough time, and better love with their spouses because they are either busy or there is lack of will to love them. 

These women sometimes pay air tickets for the boys to meet outside Uganda for commercial sex. Sexually starved corporate and public servant women have not been left behind.  These take their clients in secret posh hotels in the city.

They also pay health club fees for their clients before they sleep with them.  is is because, much as they are driven by sex urge, they still care of their hygiene.

Last, but not least, there are rich house wives; they are stopped by their rich possessive husbands.  These have each and everything at their disposal, but they are idle; a fact that makes crave sex all the time.