File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 742


Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:01:44 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re:  M-TH: State-run brothels


Yoshie has a point here..
>
>There is also a racist/ethno-chauvinist dimension to commodified sex and
>pleasure. "I cannot do this or that to women of my country. Morality and
>laws do not allow that. However, I am in an exotic place where women are
>young, willing, and best of all CHEAP, so I can get away with all kinds of
>things that I cannot dream of at home." Or "I cannot buy prostitutes as
>young as this girl/boy here in my country. But here I can, isn't the power
>of dollar/yen/German mark great or what?"

This certainly is the case here in Scandinavia. Thailand has become a 
"sex-paradise" ... Another place where prostitution is growing enormously is 
in the former Baltic states...Both of the more traditional sense but even 
more so in the sense of men in western industrial countries literally 
bringing them home as slaves. 

In fact we have some very tragic immigrant cases of women brought here to 
Scandinavia. Then dumped by their men and now facing deportation...We also 
have contact announcements all over the place of "Russian woman looking for 
husband..."

Warm regards
Bob Malecki



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