www.CostaRicaTicas.com

GR,

Interesting thought…and not a bad idea for a book. I’m sure that it would draw fire from many different groups, but at the same time would open up a few eyes of some high maintenance/low performance gringas. Oprah would have a field day with a book like this…

The SF Chronicle did a similar four part story in October to the one that Hankkh mentions in the Dallas Morning News. The SF story is about a Korean girl who ran up $40,000 in credit card bills and answered an ad for work in the US, and was then moved into the west coast Asian sex trade.

http://www.sfgate.com/sextrafficking/

The Blog on the article shows some of the varied public opinion on what was IMHO an over done bleeding heart story…but it is good reading. I hope some of you take the time to read it and post a few opinions.

Mendo

Why is it the print and TV media in the USA never mention anything about female sex-tourists! I read in the Singapore Times last year that female sex-tourism is the fastest growing trend in the travel industry! Of course its allways been there, but in the past it was kind of hidden. But now these women are way out there in the open! Go to the Carib. and watch them chase those guys!

...What is surprising to me is that most of the women going to these places, and paying for sex, are actually very good looking, and a lot of them are 18-25yrs old! It just dont seem natural! But to each his own!!later

There may never have been a time when men (and women) have not traveled for sex. The intrepid pedestrian Thomas Coryat, whose Crudities of 1611 was the first real travel guide, already notes that the allurements of the Venetian prostitutes have drawn trade from all of Christendom. For all epochs for which we have records it can be demonstrated that sex has been not merely supererogatory to travel but often its real impetus. And much of this sex has been bought and paid for. Until recently most expressions of this experience have been taboo. But in the last century, as the technological and economic power of the west, especially, enables more of its citizens to indulge in travel and the fantasies that impel them, a literature of sexual travel has emerged. Wanderlust is a voyeuristic collection by celebrants (and detractors) of the fugitive ecstasies, humiliations, and consequences of paying for sex far from home. Men and women, gay and straight, buyer and seller, amoral and conscience-stricken—all contribute a perspective on what can now be acknowledged a commonplace, though emotionally fraught and morally ambiguous, experience of the traveler. Included are selections from Stendahl, Timothy Mo, Nelson Algren, Alma Guillermoprieto, William T. Vollman, Marilyn Jaye-Lewis, Michel Houellebecq, Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood, Joe Orton, Jonathan Ames, Rachel DeWoskin, and many others.