Monday, December 17, 2007

Is This Anything?

FP Passport thinks this is news (link):

When you heard the words "sex tourism," one image usually comes to mind: a sleazy, older white man with a beer in one hand and an underage Asian girl in the other, strolling along some beach in Thailand. But now a new kind of sex tourism is on the rise. According to a recent Reuters story, older white women are now flocking to Kenya to seek out sex with younger African men. There are no official statistics, but locals in Mombasa tell Reuters they estimate one out of five single foreign female tourists are in search of sex.

My friend Anon wonders whether it really is news. Remember Shirley Valentine (link) (138 Amazon reviews, 123 of them five star)? And remember Mrs. Wentworth Brewster?

Each evening, with some light excuse and beaming with goodwill
She'd just slip into something loose and totter down the hill
To that bar on the Piccola Marina
Where love came to Mrs. Wentworth-Brewster
Hot flushes of delight suffused her ...

Possible differences, if any:
  1. Interracial (Tom Conti only had five o'clock shadow)
  2. Mass marketed.
  3. 6.9 percent AIDS rate.

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