The repressive sexual ideology of the apartheid years, that sanctified heterosexual relationships within marriage, stigmatized prostitution and confined all sexual encounters within its rigid racist boundaries, has changed dramatically. Since 1994 the strict sexual mores and conservatism have relaxed under one of the world’s most progressive Constitutions, that guarantees protection from discrimination on the basis of gender and of sexual Homosexuality, taboo and criminalized under the apartheid dispensation, has crossed racial boundaries and is legally protected.