You're scum of the earth

Dear A.M. Costa Rica:

In response to letters from Norwood and Clanton, and I intentionally did not use "Mr." in addressing these men:

A few questions for these "visitors" to said establishments. If this is such a profitable business, then why don't you keep those resources in the U.S.? Could be it's illegal here? Do you really think this business isn't hurting anyone? How about the women themselves, who evidently have no self worth?

Do you think this is truly an occupation one aspires to? Have you a sister? Or what about your own mother? Why not bring them on down, set them up with their own little stall, e-mail photos back home for the rest of the family to view how business is flourishing? You're the scum of the earth, and it's men like you that I cringe at whenever I walk down the streets of San José, or sit in a restaurant and and hear your broken Spanish as you proposition some young woman, too naive or stupid to understand the snide, disgusting remarks you and your buddies mumble under your breath as your plan your evening with these women.

I'm sure no respectable woman would touch you with a 10-foot pole, which is perhaps why you advocate so intensely for these brothels. Prostitution may be the oldest profession in the world, but that doesn't make any more respectable.


Katie Mullins-Hall
Cincinnati, Ohio
Puerto Limón, Costa Rica