Slog - Comments on Meet the New Sex Tourists http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists They're white, horny, female, and of-a-certain-age, and according to ABC News, they're travelling to Kenya to have their grooves restored by hunky young men who appreciate financial attention. (And, some say, playing HIV-flavored Russian roulette with poverty-stricken Kenyans.) Read the whole thing here.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:17:28 -0800 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:20:04 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Just Me Guess they like dark meat.

]]> Just Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855260 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855260 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:23:17 -0800 Comment by Greg Meh. Icky as I may find it (go away, mental pictures!), this is far less morally objectionable than middle-aged white men traveling to Kenya to have sex with little girls.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855261 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855261 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:27:11 -0800 Comment by tsm @2 - but is it less morally objectionable than the middle-aged white men who travel to Third World nations to have sex with adult women?

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855266 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855266 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:40:26 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO Yikes. That's all I can say about that.

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855268 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855268 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:48:41 -0800 Comment by The CHZA @3 - yes, because men's sexual intentions are always more morally objectionable than women's :P

]]> The CHZA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855269 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855269 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:48:54 -0800 Comment by Ryan @2 and 3 I didn't know that the 'icky' scale changed levels for this stuff. Sex tourism sits at it's own bad level. Just like one case of rape can't be called worse than another case of rape.
Sex tourism is wrong. period. It doesn't matter who is doing it to who.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855270 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855270 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:51:27 -0800 Comment by Cindy This reminds me of a movie I just watched on the Sundance channel called Heading South, but those women would travel to Haiti for their flings.

]]> Cindy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855272 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855272 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:52:07 -0800 Comment by tenspeed personally, i always thought that dorothy was more hot to trot than rose-even though rose was cast as the sexy one.

is that icky?

]]> tenspeed http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855278 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855278 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:07:34 -0800 Comment by Greg @3: They are the same.

@6: There is a world of difference between traveling to another country to pay for sex with an adult, who presumably is able to make decisions for himself or herself, and traveling to another country to pay for sex with a child. You need to understand this fundamental difference.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855289 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855289 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:20:29 -0800 Comment by Ryan @9 I guess I forgot that all sex workers decide for themselves to do what they do.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855291 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855291 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:27:36 -0800 Comment by ryan whoops, I meant all adult sex workers decide for themselves...

]]> ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855293 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855293 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:28:43 -0800 Comment by miss_m So, now women are acting like entitled, exploitave, perverted assholes... just like men have for centuries. Yay for, um, progress. Or something.

]]> miss_m http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855305 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855305 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:43:22 -0800 Comment by Greg @11: When you find out who is coercing the poor, poor Kenyan men from the article into having sex with older women for money, let me know.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855309 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855309 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:47:35 -0800 Comment by Michigan Matt @8 Blache was the sexy one. Rose was the simple one. And Dorothy was the tall one with the deep voice.

]]> Michigan Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855320 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855320 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:06:41 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO @ 8: Yes. I know it is wrong, and I hope I feel differently when I'm old and grey, but the though of banging an old bag is nauseating.

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855321 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855321 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:07:03 -0800 Comment by Michigan Matt And by Blache I of course mean Blanche!

]]> Michigan Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855322 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855322 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:07:18 -0800 Comment by Ryan @13: The 50% unemployment rate might be doing some coercion.

Sex tourism, regardless if it's men or women traveling to have sex, is exploitation. It's people from a wealthy nation traveling to poor nations to use their wealth to get sex.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855331 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:14:41 -0800 Comment by Boomer in NYC #7--You're right, it was a movie. It makes me think someone at ABC News was watching the Sundance Channel this weekend, too.

]]> Boomer in NYC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855354 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855354 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:34:11 -0800 Comment by Greg @17: So the entire Western world is comprised of sexual exploiters, then? Because they're the ones keeping Africa down.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855360 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:40:19 -0800 Comment by IMAdrgQ Gross and GROSS! No HIV Nig-Nogs for me!

]]> IMAdrgQ http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855400 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855400 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:10:58 -0800 Comment by pox Anyone else notice in the photo caption where it says "Hard figures are difficult to come by...?"

]]> pox http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855413 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:24:00 -0800 Comment by Greg @20: You're worried that it's your granny paying to get slammed by some big, black Kenyan cock, aren'tcha?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855428 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855428 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:36:45 -0800 Comment by OR Matt Am I the only one who finds this well .... kind of funny? There is a double standard here ... I'm not convinced it will ever be the same? and further evidence that men and women are just never going to be ... the same at somethings.

]]> OR Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855437 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855437 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:42:21 -0800 Comment by zak - yes it is my real name what a bunch of rubes .... who cares ... it is just sex and just money

as old as humanity

the old bags are hot as hell in bed, I fuck them all the time

and what the shit is all this crap talk of exploitation - these young african men fuck anybody with money, even poor africans

whore is whore, silly rubes in Seattle

]]> zak - yes it is my real name http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855795 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855795 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:16:26 -0800 Comment by Kip sex tourism - you do mean Vegas of course

]]> Kip http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855797 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855797 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:17:13 -0800 Comment by Adam sex tourism - Vegas?

]]> Adam http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855815 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855815 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:57:07 -0800 Comment by OR Matt @24

What civilized folk don't realize that ... libido is a funny thing. Some people have it worse than others. Men have it more when they are younger women have it worse when they are older ... and they never see it coming. Whoever designed humans has one sick sense of humor. With time, every one of who is damaged from it learns to separate love and sex.

]]> OR Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855825 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/meet_the_new_sex_tourists#c855825 Sex Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:20:04 -0800