Some people say that passion often flows
when a man and a woman are left in a room long enough. This seems to be
true of some service jobs that pitch both sexes together as service
providers and clients.
Dalliance between male hairstylists and female clients
Kunle Olutayo, a male hair stylist, gets an average of ten female customers a day.
Although not bad in terms of good looks,
Olutayo grew up as a shy little boy, particularly around girls until his
painful fortune changed about seven years ago when he became a
hairstylist. Shortly after starting the job following a six months’
training, Olutayo could not believe his luck.
With an endless string of female
customers, he no longer had to worry about his failing nerves since some
of his female customers were woman enough to take the initiative.
Olutayo was busy fixing the hair of one
of his numerous female customers when our correspondent visited the
salon he shares with four other stylists around the famous Ikeja
Under-bridge in Lagos.
As he attached a weave-on to the
customer’s hair, the two joked about the lady’s receding hairline. Some
of the customer’s hair was falling off at the front and Olutayo teased
her about it being one of the signs of old age.
Olutayo is close to many of his customers
and has dated a few, even though he repeatedly described it as bad for
business. When he was still new on the job, he was overwhelmed by the
surplus number of women he encountered daily and so indulged himself
when he could.
However, Olutayo has since learnt a few lessons.
“This job is not for womanisers. If
you’re a womaniser, stay away from this job because you will continue to
lose money. When I first started the job, it exposed me to so many
women for the first time. I used to be very shy but on this job, I met
women who seduced me. Some of the women would seduce their stylists to
avoid paying for the service, which also means not paying on subsequent
visits.
“So a womaniser has a lot to lose as a
hairstylist. Now, I’ve learnt my lesson, I no longer sleep with my
clients anyhow. I only date one lady customer now and that limits my
loss. Before now, I used to forgo a lot of money to female customers
that I had affairs with,” he said.
Explaining how his seducers perform their
act, Olutayo demonstrated with his eyes, feigning sexual interest and
willingness and hands, rubbing on our correspondent, who had briefly
assumed the role of a stylist.
“The women won’t open their mouths to say
they want any hairstylist, but once they are seated and you’re about to
start fixing their hair, they can say they don’t have money and need to
fix their hair for an important occasion, or say they can only afford
an amount not up to half the price of the materials to be used and the
service.
“While they are appealing, they are
caressing you with their hands and looking at you with funny eyes
(seductively). Some may call ahead to say they don’t have money. In such
cases, negotiations can be done over the phone.
“If I’m interested, I only have to tell
the customer that I’ve always liked her and ask for her affection in
return. Almost 100 per cent of the time, they are open to an arrangement
or rendezvous that could later lead to a hotel room,” he said
sheepishly.
Special hotel booking called ‘short time,’ which is for an hour or two, is usually used for such rendezvous.
Findings reveal
that many of the male hairstylists who actively womanise often fall
under two categories- those who are new on the job and those who could
not complete their apprenticeship for some reason.
A source explained that the newcomers are
too inexperienced to deal with the temptations associated with their
new job, while those in the other category are too grateful for their
fortune in spite of their inability to complete their training that they
over-indulge themselves in their good fortune.
“I look at some of them (hairstylist
womanisers) and I shake my head. They lose in so many ways because if
the customer cannot pay for the weave-on, the stylists may have to use
their own weave-on as well, fix the hair free of charge, pay N1,500 or
N2,000 for the ‘short time’ they will spend at the hotel with the
customer, possibly buy drinks there and even miss one or two other
customers that will call at their shops while they are away,” said
Segun, a male hairstylist with eight years’ experience.
Although, the category of women who visit
male hairstylists range from students to workers in practically all
fields, from Olutayo’s experience, the women who are open to such
dalliances are usually those referred to as club girls.
A cross section of male hairstylists said
the next category of women usually open to having romance with them are
single mothers. But with the single mothers, male hairstylists need not
worry about not getting paid.
For instance, a male hairstylist, who
identified himself as Johnson, narrated his experience with a female
customer he once had a sexual affair with.
According to Johnson’s account, his
romance with the woman started after his third visit to her Lekki
residence for home service. Johnson does home service for customers who
are willing to pay extra which has been factored in due to the distance,
transportation cost and so on.
“The woman never negotiated any amount I charged and she always paid me.
“It started innocently when she asked me
to come and fix her hair at home, before it later graduated to sex. She
was a single mother with one daughter, so she usually asked me to come
in the morning when her daughter would be in school,” Johnson said.
Johnson added that he had noticed that a
lot of his older female customers like to date young boys judging by
their discussions at the salon, jokingly, describing salons as homes of
gossips and rumours.
Most women confirmed that they prefer male hairstylists to their female counterparts in a poll conducted by our correspondent.
‘I’m in love with male hairstylists’
One of the respondents who identified
herself as Nkem, admitted to having fantasised about dating her
“handsome male hairstylists” countless times but couldn’t bring herself
to initiate a move.
“I actually go to the salon that I use
because of the male hairstylists. They are very handsome and sometimes I
wish that one of them would ask me out but it has not happened yet. I
think male hairstylists are better than the female ones because a man
would know what fits you better than a woman,” she said.
Another place that promises an abundance of passion is a massage parlour because it usually pitches both sexes together alone.
Visiting massage parlours for the wonders
of the experienced hands of masseurs and masseuses is not yet a popular
pastime in the country, however, the trend is growing by the day.
The idea of having a massage is
therapeutic. It also helps the client to relax and be released of stress
and body pains, but investigation shows that often times in Nigeria,
clients wish for more than stress and pain relief. Our findings show
that many male clients get sexually aroused and get an erection within a
few minutes of body massage.
Happy hour
A cross section of masseuses said many of
the clients who visit their parlours ask for ‘happy hours’ or ‘happy
ending massages.’ These are erotic massages that end with hand jobs,
blow jobs or sex.
“When some of the clients come in, they
ask, ‘do you do happy hour or happy ending’ and we say no.
The best
thing is not to start what you won’t be able to finish; so we tell them
that we don’t do such things here, but I know that some massage parlours
do it abroad,” said Franca Oriakhi, the Managing
Director of World
Beauty Salon and Spa, Surulere, Lagos.
Another beauty therapist, Ruth Zobeashia
of Rutiana Perfection Parlour, Ikeja in Lagos, also shared similar
experiences on the job.
Zobeashia, who has had over 10 years’
experience as a masseuse, said, “Most of the Nigerian men who come here,
once they see that it’s a beautiful lady that will attend to them, what
goes to their head is sex after five minutes of massage.
“Some of them will say, ‘Can you suck me?
Can you make me come? I will pay you extra for doing it.’ I tell them
that we don’t offer anything beyond massage here. When I explain to them
that I can’t do it, then they stop visiting. What most of them want is
sex and not massage, really. It’s the whites (foreigners) who really
understand the essence of massage and some blacks too that come here,”
she said.
Zobeashia recalled how she had to escape
through a bathroom window about seven years ago while giving a man a
massage. The client had wanted sex also.
Recounting the incident, she said, “We
get all kinds of harassment and embarrassment on the job. I was giving a
man a massage one day when he insisted that he wanted to have sex with
me. I told him that I needed to use the bathroom. It was through the
window that I managed to get out.
“Some of the men will say that they have
girls who tended to their needs where they used to have massage and so I
tell them to go back there. One day, I asked a client demanding for sex
if he would be happy if his wife was sleeping with her clients. I was
shocked when he replied that he didn’t care, ‘after all, that’s her
job.’”
Interestingly, some of the harassments
are not limited to male clients, according to Zobeashia, who has
received sexual invitations from female clients too. Some female clients
who are lesbians also ask to be caressed and erotically fingered in
their private regions during massages.
“Lesbians come here and want the same
thing the men want. A man having trouble with his marriage once told me
that he was advised by a friend to visit a massage parlour to get the
sexual satisfaction his wife denied him at home,” she continued with a
surprise look on her face.
Investigation indeed shows that some
massage parlours offer sexual pleasures in Ikeja, Ikoyi and Lekki areas
of Lagos. Many of such parlours keep the information within a circle,
largely made up of foreigners.
A Briton who had a chat with our
correspondent online named a few spas and massage parlours in Lagos that
offer ‘happy hours’ or ‘happy ending’ massages. He also said there were
masseurs and masseuses who service clients at home, with massage and
sex.
“Some of us in the Nigerian white
community patronise these places. Some Nigerians also know about them as
well. There is a spa in Lagos with Asian women as masseuses, where
clients can pay for what they want. Massage parlours that have happy
endings are common in Asia, so maybe that’s why some Nigerians ask for
such services here after experiencing it elsewhere,” he commented.
But that is not all; tattooists also deal
with temptations from customers of the opposite sex. In Lagos,
tattooists are predominantly males and are often required to tattoo on
female erotic parts like the breasts, buttocks, thighs and the vagina
(the female reproductive part).
Tattooists are seduced by clients too
A tattooist, Abisola Ojikutu of Bizzysaki
Tattoo Studio, Ikeja, told our correspondent that he sometimes gets
seduced by female clients, but quickly added that in spite of it, he
still strives to maintain professionalism on the job.
“I tattoo almost all parts of the body,
including body parts of members of the opposite sex because it’s my job.
I tattoo their private parts and do breast enlargement and other stuff.
Yes, seduction happens because we are humans but I act professionally.
And I have to also consider my money, so I act like I’m not moved. Even
if a lady seduces me as a tattoo celebrity, we suspend all till after
work,” he said.
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