errrrrr excuse me ! all guilty of what ?
I think that implication was that when posters ask for information on "girl friendly" hotels and the like, are posters on DR1 participating in promoting sex tourism/prostitution.
At least that was the way that I understood it.
Perhaps the OP could explain what he meant.
I guess I better scratch that off my list of interesting new ventures to try. My wife probably would not approve anyway.Frank, I found a thread to post that news piece on a few hours back
http://www.dr1.com/forums/business-questions/84282-starting-commodities-futures-trading-business-dr-3.html#post716523
The heading there was 'Day trader charged with running ?sex tours? to the Dominican Republic'
Yes, that was what I was wondering aloud. But I am sure there is more to that story.
The particular posting that the OP was referring to is being prosecuted under NY law which treats promoting tours for the purpose of prostitution as a felony:
http://www.nycourts.gov/cji/2-PenalLaw/230/230.25(1).pdf
There is a current bill pending which would toughen the restrictions,making it clear that it is a felony regardless of whether or not prostitution is legal in the destination country.
In the monies that the US government has allocated for fighting HIV around the world, there have been restrictions on using such funds (under one program PEPFAR- under which the DR received $7 million last year)- without signing a statement in opposition to prostitution. This provision has been extremely controversial, leading to legal challenges.
Anti-prostitution pledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I have heard from a number of women that they have generally found DR1.com fairly "sleazy"- with its apparent agreement in facilitating sex tourism to the Dominican Republic.
Perhaps that is the sort of site that most posters want. Perhaps that brings in the bulk of the revenue to DR1.com. Perhaps that is the sort of tourism that Dolores wishes to encourage in this country. One does not know.
It would be interesting to note if there were any posters, or any people who might have been discouraged from coming here, from moving here, because of the "sex tourism" postings here.
Pure 100% home-grown baloney, girl.I have heard from a number of women that they have generally found DR1.com fairly "sleazy"- with its apparent agreement in facilitating sex tourism to the Dominican Republic.
Perhaps that is the sort of site that most posters want. Perhaps that brings in the bulk of the revenue to DR1.com. Perhaps that is the sort of tourism that Dolores wishes to encourage in this country. One does not know.
Pure 100% home-grown baloney, girl.
There are a couple of prostitution hot-spots in the DR, and they happen to be where many expats and tourists live or travel (gee...where the foreigner money is, what a shocker...) It's a chicken/egg thing AFAIK. In the classic economic model, employment chases capital.
And I totally doubt DR1 is promoting it.
Your "girlfriends" need to toughen the f@ck up, if they even exist. Heck, female sex tourists are nearly as prominent as male sex tourists if you do some research.
One thing DR1 is NOT is sleazy, especially in "promoting" prostitution. It was a problem a loooooong time before Algore invented the innerweb, and even longer since Dolores and Robert created DR1. There are PLENTY of other websites that do 1000+ times more promoting sex toruism than DR1 does. You should aim that PC cannon elsewhere. You might hit a target.
Pure 100% home-grown baloney, girl.
Your "girlfriends" need to toughen the f@ck up, if they even exist. Heck, female sex tourists are nearly as prominent as male sex tourists if you do some research.
One thing DR1 is NOT is sleazy, especially in "promoting" prostitution. It was a problem a loooooong time before Algore invented the innerweb, and even longer since Dolores and Robert created DR1. There are PLENTY of other websites that do 1000+ times more promoting sex toruism than DR1 does. You should aim that PC cannon elsewhere. You might hit a target.
makes me really want to sit down and have an intelligent discussion with you.