Young African men involved with older European woman as a supply and demand phenomenon?

It has appeared to me that there’s a lively “market” going on in what on the surface to most people appears to be love. Mixed couples of African and European decent. A wonderful intercultural union of love. But is it love? Or in essence a cold deal of supply and demand? It is not hard to see why these two groups are finding each other. As an young illegal immigrant you want to obtain your residence permit and you may very well take the most easy and comfortable road to get it. As a middle-aged woman you are delighted to have a young strong exotic guy at your side and in your bed. However understandable this phenomenon might be. It does not come without risk and clearly cause all sorts of problems as well as it invokes many questions. It is a very sensitive topic and I’m sure that my statements will not leave everyone a happy individual for the day. There are so many questions that come to my mind whenever I see yet another one of these couples. At work, in the park or off course at African parties and art performances. I hear there is even a certain night club in Brussels, Belgium functioning for precisely this thing I’m talking about. Where foreign men and native woman find each other and begin their search for their love-market equilibrium. We have heard of the sex-tourism of The Gambia and other countries, where mostly older woman go to find a young guy to spoil and enjoy themselves with. But this European version is not the same and even more rarely talked about in public. It isn’t in the interest of both sides to freely talk about this and the real intentions or feelings in the background for that would break the spell of “love”.