Categories: Sex, Pimping, Prostitution, Sex Tourism
02/16/09
Here's one option for the itinerant expat loverboy
Link: http://www.amcostarica.com/021609.htm
By Garland M. Baker
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
The liberal sexual atmosphere in Costa Rica can have negative consequences when sex tourists and expats inadvertently procreate and then turn their backs on the situation or leave without knowing what they have done.
One way to avoid this is undergoing a vasectomy, but many men fear this procedure. They believe it will do something to their manhood, because of all the cultural mores associated with the procedure. Often, women have their say too: some of them believe a man is lesser if he is not functioning fully.
12/22/08
Positive and negative changes to report
Link: http://www.amcostarica.com/122208.htm
By Garland M. Baker
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
This past year has been very interesting and full of changes for Costa Rica. Most notably, it looks like property fraud and crime are on the increase. The government has attempted to make some changes to the corresponding legislation, but crime is noticeably worse than last year and the year before.
Sometime around mid-year, while driving to Multiplaza del Este, this author and his thirteen-year-old daughter saw firsthand how a woman got shot in cold blood at a bus stop when two men on a motorcycle wanted to steal her packages. This is a horrifying experience for anybody to witness, especially for a 13-year-old girl. She asked at the time: "Papi, is this what Costa Rica is becoming?"
07/21/08
Categories: Living in Costa Rica, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Prostitution, Pimping, Sex Tourism
Child's first pimp might be Mom
Link: http://www.amcostarica.com/072108.htm
Second of two parts
By Garland M. Baker
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Costa Rican girls — and boys — get into prostitution for a variety of reasons in Costa Rica. Most of the reasons have to do with family economics. Some households that cannot make ends meet push their kids into selling themselves.
In the campo, the countryside, some mothers tell their sub-teen girls to go hang out around the local bar to sell themselves to the patrons. The girls take their earnings home so the family can survive. In other cases, the mothers of these kids are just money hungry. The easiest way for them to make money is to pressure their children into prostitution.
07/07/08
Categories: Living in Costa Rica, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Prostitution, Pimping, Sex Tourism
Illegal pimping is the engine that drives sex tourism
Link: http://www.amcostarica.com/070708.htm
First of two parts
By Garland M. Baker
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Prostitution is legal in Costa Rica. The activity is legal because there is no law against it. In this country, if there is no law prohibiting something, it is legal.
The legality of paid sex has spawned a wide range of activities that are not legal. Yet Costa Rica makes no effort to enforce these laws, despite lip service to the contrary.
The criminal code lumps most of these illegal activities under the heading of pimping. The skeptical could call it, simply, marketing.
Costa Rica has become a magnet for the sex tourist. The country rivals competitors like Thailand, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Dominican Republic and Cuba. Brazil and the Dominican Republic are the de facto leaders for sex tourism in the Western Hemisphere, but Costa Rica is a serious contender.
