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Tom's avatar

I dislike rich sex tourists as much as anyone, but I think in this case the problem is bigger. Lots of young men in the West have no option to start a relationship, and arguably it will get worse as the economy worsens. In my parents generation, most couples were legally married and stayed together. In my generation or younger, I don't think I know anyone or almost anyone who is "happily married". Even young people are divorced (if they married at all) or are single with a string of failed relationships behind them, or, increasingly, no relationships at all. So part of it is "cheap pussy", but part of it is just the human need of companionship. I think it's a scam, in the end, like the Ukrainian mail brides. Just as there is no "free lunch", there is no "cheap pussy" -- you pay in other ways.

Unless the West returns to a saner morality, things will get worse. Or we will all become gay/transgender, perhaps after some mRNA genetic vaccine or a microchip in our brains. https://youtu.be/SvxDX-EeZM0

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On a bus through Thailand, sat behind me was a young American expat and a Thai girl. For hours I overheard their sporadic conversation. She obviously had hopes for marriage, and he was obviously about to dump her and try another country. It was as if as the time drew closer, he became more distant and non-committal, and she more desperate, laying on thick the terms of endearment and trying to pry a commitment to future plans out of him. It made me feel ashamed.

Sometime prior I had been on a small puddle jumper from HK to Bangkok, I believe. I don't know what model it was, but it was 5 seats wide. Several rows ahead was a morbidly obese American man in his late 20's travelling with his mother. Seatbelt-extender sized, he took up 2 seats, I'm thinking 500 pounds. He was dressed in sweatpants, and had the manners to match. He was obviously on an expedition to lose his virginity, financed by his own mother. Oh well, everyone's got to have something good on their bucket list. What was most curious is that a rather large American woman his age passed by and accidentally brushed against him, and he whipped his head around the best he could and gave her a dirty look and some cross words. I don't know why, but this too made me feel shame, maybe on his behalf. That shame turned to terror when he got up to go to the head. The aircraft literally bounced and wobbled as he plodded to the back of the plane, and I believed there was a good possibility the shift in weight might knock the little turboprop out of the sky.

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