Ya and I found the authors numbers interesting . Lets do the math. The author states that there are 20,000 fulltime sexpats living in CR on a permanent basis so lets say at least 20% are out on any given night making an effort to get their freak on. Lets face it why be a CR sexpat if you don't get laid at least one a week. That would be 4,000 sexpats out on any given night. The author states that 200,000 sextourists travel to CR every year to procure the services of a sexworker or engage in some other deviant behaviour that has a relation to the sextrade. So the math here would be (200,000 divided by 50 taking into consideration the slow weeks of Chistmas and Easter would be 4000) and the majority of sextourists will probably stay at least five days to a week per sextourist trip. So on a majority of nights we have 4000 sexpats and 4000 sextourists all out jousling to get laid in the various sexpat/sextourist venues around the city. This does not take into consideration the high and low season flucuation and assumes a constant traffic flow for this examination. A helpful guage to judge this flow would be to track the sales of condoms and erectile dysfuntion drugs from month to month as this would give a clearer picture of the flucuation throughout the year. These numbers lead me to a conclusion that the authors numbers are high or the exploits of the sexpat/sextourist are highly exagerrated. Assuming their are enough sexworkers out on any given night to satisfy this number of deviants what percentage of sexworker are the sexpat or sextourist going to find attractive enough to engage in the exchange of body fluids and money to complete the transaction. Maybe 60 to 70%. So removing 30% percent of sexworkers from the 8000 sexpat and sextourist total would be 2400. So we add that 2400 to the 8000 sexpat/sextourist number and we come up with a total of 10400 sexworkers to be able to handle the needs of the sexpat/sextourist on any given night. (Upon further reflection of this number you could almost fill up the new stadium with sexworkers and sexpat/sextourists on any given night). Now my problem with these numbers are if we were to take the word of the sexpat/sextourist on his sexual exploits we would need to triple the amount of sexworkers to handle the volume of activity claimed by the sexpat/sextourist on this board and in conversation around the gulch. ( with this increase of sexworkers I do believe with the sexpat/sextourist quanity it would be standing room only in the new stadium). And if you listen to the sexworkers they say they usually only handle a couple of clients per night. These too insights furnished by participant sexworkers and sexpat/sextourist and the numbers furnished by the author of this article lead to totally conflicting results and will require further research and study to come to a conclusive answer. But what is surely garnered from this article is either the sexpat/sextourist is full of shit, the sexworker is full of shit or the author of this article is full of shit, or all three are full of shit.
