I don't get it. They paid prostitutes for sex? Isn't that what the prostitutes wanted them to do? It's not like the US Secret Service agents who cheated prostitutes out of their pay, and that blew over in a what seems like a week now. There must be more to it than what the first five or six paragraphs tell us. If so my bad, but I read that far and it just sounds like a silly sob story to me.
I don't get it. They paid prostitutes for sex? Isn't that what the prostitutes wanted them to do? It's not like the US Secret Service agents who cheated prostitutes out of their pay, and that blew over in a what seems like a week now. There must be more to it than what the first five or six paragraphs tell us. If so my bad, but I read that far and it just sounds like a silly sob story to me.
To me this is no news at all. There are prostitutes who make themselves available to foreigners in Haiti? That's hardly news - half the prostitutes in the DR come from Haiti. The girls who do this do so with the full knowledge of boyfriends, husbands and often families. The girls are not exploited, they are delighted to earn the money. There is terrible unemployment in Haiti and this is one way a girl can earn money to feed the inevitable children. And in the articles I have read, nowhere do I see that there is any evidence of underage girls being involved - just the word that it is a possibility. Hardly enough to call anyone guilty.
It's still not acceptable for people working for an organisation that explicitly condemns sexual exploitation to engage in this behaviour. There is a code of conduct that they sign and they are in breach of it.
That is a separate argument. In this case the punters did not go to a country at their own expense like tourists. They were on the payroll, in representation of, and using premises paid for by an organisation whose ethical code of conduct explicitly forbids this behaviour, and which actively campaigns against it.Chiri, i realize that we are on opposite sides of the sexual divide, so i want to tread lightly here...do you think that a guy going to Sosua and picking up a chica is exploiting her?
That is a separate argument. In this case the punters did not go to a country at their own expense like tourists. They were on the payroll, in representation of, and using premises paid for by an organisation whose ethical code of conduct explicitly forbids this behaviour, and which actively campaigns against it.
The girls are not exploited, they are delighted to earn the money. There is terrible unemployment in Haiti and this is one way a girl can earn money to feed the inevitable children.
Paying using charity money to pay for sex and exploiting under aged prostitutes.
It's still not acceptable for people working for an organisation that explicitly condemns sexual exploitation to engage in this behaviour. There is a code of conduct that they sign and they are in breach of it.