"I always though Jaco Costa Rica had a good representation of bad ex pats, but they dont treat the locals poorly, they just chase their sisters and mothers..."
Down here we only chase the sisters. No mums.
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germuno
you're missing out grooger...mums have more experience..as the old saying goes...they don't moan or groan & thery're grateful as hell
cocodrilo....don't group all teenagers into one category...& what's wrong with responsible prostitution...there is such a thing & it's been around for a long time
...ticotim...haven't been to jaco for years...though i've passed by it many times on the highway between puintarenas & quepos...but i'm sure it's the shits these days
..& i don't mind the daughter/mom combo...it's not so prevalent anymore in puntarenas but in the past many respectable families had daughters who were active in the prostitution business...it's the crack/whore gerneration that has given it a bad name..my time in puntarenas goes back over a quarter of a century...& it's the western culture that's given prostitution a ill deserved bad name...bring bac the concubines
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foolsprogress
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<hr>..i'm not judging lowlife...as long as it's not of the pedophile grouping...just can only take so much of them...get a a kick out of it for a while & then time to move on...snooky is like that for me.
..sort of like going back to the states & listening to the right wing talk shows like limbaugh, hannity & o'reilly...listen for a while & say to myself...yep...they're still out there
..& i wouldn't be too quick to judge the folks who stay in the cheapies...i find them much more fun than the crowds at the multi star hotels they're as much fun adventurous & interesting as cruise ship travellers...
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i don't mind the daughter/mom combo...it's not so prevalent anymore in puntarenas but in the past many respectable families had daughters who were active in the prostitution business...<hr></blockquote>
So when you come to Cambodia you deliberately seek out low lives and prostitutes in bargain basement dives, you eschew multi star hotels and the people who stay such places, and now you find yourself surrounded by low lives when you come to Cambodia. No surprise there. If you didn't hang out in the sewer you wouldn't see so much trash.
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foolsprogress
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<hr>Other solo female travlers I ran into said they were equally appalled by some of the 'bottom feeders' they met- moreover the huge number of balding fatties with teenagers on their arms...
Oh, so you are there to buy teenage girls? I think you missed my point...<hr></blockquote>
Croc - What is your point? Is it about fat, balding men? Is is about pedophilia? Are you suggesting that these "teenagers" are underage? Is it about prostitution? Is it that the legal age for prostitution should be raised? Is it that fat balding men shouldn't hang out with prostitutes? Would it be OK to go with a teenage prostitute if the john is not fat and balding? Or is this about offending the delicate PC sensibilities of fat, hairy western womyn? What exactly is your point?
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<hr>they actually respect and are proud of the ex king and his name.<hr></blockquote>
I don't think I've ever heard a Cambodian using Sihanoukville when speaking Khmer.
OP, I like the people, I like the country, I like the freedom.
I don't like the weather very much and the Khmer food doesn't make me start salivating immediately.
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cocodrilo
#35 Bottom feeders to some of us are people who are picking up and buying young girls, some of them REALLY ARE girls. I really don't think all that many fat, hairy western women are over there buying 16 year old boys for sex. Are they?
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<hr>Bottom feeders to some of us are people who are picking up and buying young girls, some of them REALLY ARE girls.<hr></blockquote>
Underage girls? You and your solo female traveler friends have actually seen old men with underage children and you didn't do anything about it? Why? The damn child exploitation hotline is all over the tourist pubs here. Why didn't you call it?
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<hr>I really don't think all that many fat, hairy western women are over there buying 16 year old boys for sex.<hr></blockquote>
I didn't suggest that they were. They are the one's turning up their sizable noses at the legal sexual practices of consenting adults. They whine endlessly about 50 year old men with girlfriends and prostitutes 20 years their junior while completely missing real examples of child exploitation going on all around them just because there are no fat, balding western men involved.
BTW, if you have a look at the articles and photos of those arrested for pedophilia in Cambodia over the last few years, most were neither fat nor balding, nor were they all that old. How do you figure that happened? If all these fat, balding pedophiles are so plentiful and obvious to solo female travelers here, how is it that the anti-ped police and NGOs have almost completely missed them?
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