.................. For some reason, she's incredibly skittish about "la Policia". .............
My speculation would be that she is only one warning / suspicious report away from going to prison for prostitution. Remember the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" does not apply in Cuba. A certain number, I think 5, of warnings or suspicious reports from any policeman on the street is basically the same a being found guilty in court.
You certainly hit the nail on the head. Anyone that scared of the cops is also known to the cops.
"For some reason, she's incredibly skittish about "la Policia". I still don't understand why she quit her job as a cleaning girl, "
Almost definitely as others have said is because she is already well known police. As for giving up her job she must be making from you and others more than the 1 CUC/day which she was getting for cleaning.
Her "driver" could well be her real boyfriend.
Well he is not doing it from the kindness of his heart. Sharing the spoils.
Wow! That must be humiliating, letting some stranger paw and make out with their girlfriend while standing lookout. I don't doubt what you people are saying. She deserves an award for being a world-class role player and "sin preservativo" to boot.
Or her chulo.... Making sure she doesn't get in trouble with some wacko foreigner and that she gets paid.
Cubans never, ever judge younger Cuban women who have an old tourist sugar daddy.
Of all comments on this thread, I chose this one as the most outrageous. I am speechless by what some consider to be "an average Cuban". Just because one hangs out with the restricted percentage marginal people it does not mean a whole society is marginal. I remember once many years ago someone actually suggesting that the majority of tourists in Cuba are people who go for sex. In my good two decades of involvement with thousands of tourists on the island I would set the % of sex tourists somewhere around single digits from the late 90s onwards (it was wilder shortly before) and closer to certainly under 1% nowadays. It's as if I go to the US to use drugs and suddenly I make a statement how using drugs is a reality for most Americans or tat nobody criticizes drug dealers in Chicago.
I am not criticizing the act of buying sex, but the assumption that most Cubans won't judge a Cuban for it (even "never, ever". It is a preposterous statement, completely out of touch with how Cuban society works, in my opinion at least (and of almost all of the hundreds of Cubans I've talked about it out with).
Cubans never, ever judge younger Cuban women who have an old tourist sugar daddy.
Of all comments on this thread, I chose this one as the most outrageous. I am speechless by what some consider to be "an average Cuban". Just because one hangs out with the restricted percentage marginal people it does not mean a whole society is marginal. I remember once many years ago someone actually suggesting that the majority of tourists in Cuba are people who go for sex. In my good two decades of involvement with thousands of tourists on the island I would set the % of sex tourists somewhere around single digits from the late 90s onwards (it was wilder shortly before) and closer to certainly under 1% nowadays. It's as if I go to the US to use drugs and suddenly I make a statement how using drugs is a reality for most Americans or tat nobody criticizes drug dealers in Chicago.
I am not criticizing the act of buying sex, but the assumption that most Cubans won't judge a Cuban for it (even "never, ever". It is a preposterous statement, completely out of touch with how Cuban society works, in my opinion at least (and of almost all of the hundreds of Cubans I've talked about it out with).
My experience is that I get about 10 rejections for every successful offer with very attractive 18-24 year-olds. I have also learned not to directly proposition either. Something like "I'm sure someone as pretty as you is already spoken for, but if you have a friend there's 10 CUC commission in it for you" tends to be better received. The worst reaction that I get for my antics is laughed at.
