Row over Philippines sex tourism remark

[Terpe]

lol stop acting like you were just browsing through a UK national newspaper and happened to come across that advert, like you see packages for Thailand and Malaysia advertised, or saw it on the side of a bus, like you see Egypt advertised on the side of buses.

you had to dig around on the web to find that.

Wow, you have got some thin skin there friend.

I would suggest that one reasonable way to avoid being dismissed as a troll (perhaps unfairly), is to not let how you say something take away from what you actually want to say.

[Englishman2010]

Wow, you have got some thin skin there friend.

I would suggest that one reasonable way to avoid being dismissed as a troll (perhaps unfairly), is to not let how you say something take away from what you actually want to say.

Spot on Terpe

I agree with a lot (but not all) of what you say Callippo and have observed a lot during my own travels to the Phil's, but I don't understand why you feel the need to be so cynical about it We are a very varied bunch of people here, why or how we came to end up here or ended up with a Filipina partner or love of the Philippine Islands isn't something that other should judge us on.
As others have said, if someone is only interested in sex, why spend thousands going to Ph, there are plenty of places you can get it in the UK? Why would a sex-pat or sex tourist choose Ph rather than Thailand? It doesnt make sense, Thailand is nearer, cheaper, has a far better tourism infrastructure...etc. That doesn't mean I don't acknowledge that there are sex pats and sex tourists there, of course there are, but I still believe based on what I've seen on my own fairly extensive travels to the nicer tourist parts of the Phils and some off the tourist map parts of deepest Mindoro and Bicol that most foreigners are there for genuine reasons. I stayed at The Bohol Divers Resort in Panglao a few years ago, it was mainly Brit divers there. Every night I would meet up with them in the bar and have a few SML's and chat about the world and life in general. None of them even hinted that they were there for anything other than diving. As far as I could see, every hotel, bar and restaurant along Alona Beach was clean and the patrons were there for a holiday or diving not to chase after bar girls. It was just the same in Palawan and Caramoan. Even in Boracay you have to look harder for bar girls now, they've been moved away from the beach bars and as far as I could see were only in the one disco on the main road just outside of DMall.