Sex tourists

[Arthur Little]

I find it a quite sad when you see some of the profile pics of girls on dating sites where they have quite revealing clothes (what there was of them) and you can see from the background in the pics that their surroundings are quite poor. Being how bad/pervy some guys can be anyway with girls who have just normal profile pics, it makes we wonder the type of guys that these more revealing profile pics are attracting? But maybe some of these girls are so poor and desperate, that they don't care about what type of guy they are attracting as long as is someone?

, Tim ... the very thought, makes ME cringe!

[South-east boy]

Even more sad/worrying when they are only 18/19. I guess some could even be younger as you only have to say that you are over 18.

[Northerner]

The sad thing is a lot of sex tourists will also try and date girls online, trying to get free sex with the promise of a rich and wonderful life in the west.. And of course they are heading to countries such as the Philippines, so if the girl turns out to be holding back on sex till say - marriage. Off they go to a gogo bar before the flights home.

I spoke with Rizza's Tita in Cebu who is a doctor who told me how in a few years the country's HIV rate is going to explode, as the figures currently are not quite telling the truth! And how the call centre workers are earning a lot of money for their age (early twenties) and are keeping the sex industry afloat through a lifestyle of drugs and sex.

[Doc Alan]

I spoke with Rizza's Tita in Cebu who is a doctor who told me how in a few years the country's HIV rate is going to explode, as the figures currently are not quite telling the truth! And how the call centre workers are earning a lot of money for their age (early twenties) and are keeping the sex industry afloat through a lifestyle of drugs and sex.

Interesting to hear from a doctor working in the Philippines. The thread started by asking if a romance might develop without ever looking back ... not only might there be regular visits to a special clinic for treatable sexually transmitted diseases, but also looking forward to the possibility of dying from AIDS or hepatitis B / C some time in the future.
Just as an aside, many "call centre workers" are respectable ; it's the so-called "webcam models" who don't tell their families how they earn their money!