The final point about sexual transactions, is the central and decisive one, the point where African women go beyond the pale, mixing sex and money. The moral dividing line between sex and money cuts deep in the Christian ‘Eurasian’ culture in which the Caldwells are embedded, and whose lines of thinking they are unable to escape. Maurice Bloch has—based on his fieldwork among the Merina of Madagascar—provided some good insights regarding such lines of thinking: