After 5 weeks in Southeast Asia, we felt it was high time to mention something that has pervaded our trip, but hasn’t yet been discussed: sex tourism. In every single country we’ve visited, we’ve seen dirty, old, gross-looking white men with very young, beautiful Asian girls. Some look so young that we have to tell ourselves that these girls must be the mens’ nieces or daughters from the wives they met during the Vietnam War; it’s just too abhorent to think otherwise. It’s a despicable practice, and it’s incredibly sad that this represents one of the best ways for these girls to make better lives for themselves — whether it’s a steady, relatively big paycheck or a chance to “fall in love” and find a rich westerner to take care of them, these girls make a better living than most who lack education.
Although it’s hard to catch these people in the act, here’s one sketchy guy with his girl:
Then it struck us: we have a sex tourist in our midst, too: older white person taking advantage of hot Asian ass and meeting up for trysts in exotic locales. It’s morally reprehensible.
-mike
