The President along with the Attorney General of the DR. Granted that the efficacy of the group charged to do the work is marginal.
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The President along with the Attorney General of the DR. Granted that the efficacy of the group charged to do the work is marginal.
This is laughable. Do you have any idea how much confusion this would
cause? I can imagine it now, a tourist minding his own business is approached
by a prostitute in a public place, a cop notices them engaged in a conversation
and... Wa La, the PN now have another way to steal from honest hard working
people / tourists who've decided to vacation here...Absolute genius :cheeky:
That's a lot of money to spend on a "Can-barely-hold-a-conversation Belkis" especially when most of the clients are from out of Country. The first thing they ask, "Do you speak English" they reply "Un Pocito" huh??? No, enserio Senior, "how are you". Obviously there are some exceptions with better English but still not much of an educated conversation.
People in the US are arrested all the time for soliciting prostitutes. The concept is not laughable at all (once you remove the location of the DR from the equation).
If arresting Johns started to happen, the "problem of prostitution being visible" would disappear. I very much doubt that the government will do this. It has been done only a very few times before in the DR.
Apples and oranges...not building Hospital doesn’t make them look bad in the world...Sosua sex trade does..
This aint the US (laughing) and we don't need Uncle Sam's way of policing
personal choice around here.
isnt it better that you know where its going on rather than it being hidden like other countries
Some people cannot deal with the freedoms they get here. They would rather be in a "Police State" like the US.
The situation has nothing to do with the USA other than a large number of tourists from that country come to this country specifically to engage in behaviors that are not condoned where they live.
Either the DR Govt is committed to stamping out sex tourism or it is not (I don't care one way or the other). The operative word in that sentence is tourism. If all "they" want is a public show, then things will pretty much stay the same with perhaps the location changing. If they really intend to end tourists coming to the DR to procure sex, then they will need to make a distinction between tourists and those that live here or I suppose they could invoke some moral high ground and end the legality of prostitution. Prohibition doesn't seem to work but that hasn't ever stopped politicians the world over from attempting to change behavior.
Either the DR Govt is committed to stamping out sex tourism or it is not (I don't care one way or the other). The operative word in that sentence is tourism. If all "they" want is a public show, then things will pretty much stay the same with perhaps the location changing. If they really intend to end tourists coming to the DR to procure sex, then they will need to make a distinction between tourists and those that live here or I suppose they could invoke some moral high ground and end the legality of prostitution. Prohibition doesn't seem to work but that hasn't ever stopped politicians the world over from attempting to change behavior.
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