Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
Street prostitution is not legal.

Go Go bars, where you pay to release a woman from work, is prefectly legal. It has many names and many versions, be it "bar fines" or "early work release," but make no mistake that everyone, including the feds, know exactly what it is, and they have not banned it.
They can't ban it, because it is a legal loophole. Prostitution, as in escorting, works the same way in Europe or America. Girls get payed for their time and anything that happens during that time is between two consenting adults, officially. Legally, it's no different from me going for a haircut, chatting up the hairdresser girl and having sex with her. Morally, it's a different story.

Would like to see source for 2% figure. Would also be curious how typical superstitous, catholic guilt plays into answers. Would also like to ponder the definition of "prostitution" in this case, as the girl who picked me up in the mall and wanted "boom boom" in exchange for financial support did not consider it prostitution. Furthermore, there is no shortage of college aged girls living with older men, locals included, as live in maids and what nots, where sex is most obviously happening but not considered prostitution
Possibly. East Asians generally have more relaxed view on sex, some attribute it to buddhism, others to something else. Hell, Japanese porn is one of the most perverted I've ever seen, but try to going to Japan and picking up girls like you do in the PI.

It is not a "cultural thing". It is a necessity based on economic hardship, not that different morally to going to some African country and having child labour in your factory, cause it is tolerated or there's a legal loophole, or the law enforcement is corrupt and you can pay them to look the other way.

Also, I never said all girls like it. However, when given the opportunity to leave the business without suffering financially, they stay. Greed? Laziness? Fear? I don't know. But some stay
Very few like it.

Why don't you conduct a little experiment? All those girls with whom you exchanged emails, send them in the next email that you've gone bust basically for whatever made up reason, that there's is no chance that you'll be coming back to PI in the foreseeable future and probably ever because you'll have to work some low paying job.

See how quickly they stop being interested in you.