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Thanks for this second book review. It's interesting since it can be a good start to discuss key ideas. Thganks for give a summary. I guess I would be bored rapidly. I agree with your conclusion : we come back lonely and loneliness is sometimes harsh when we receive messages from our sweethearts asking for money and showing less interest every day in our life and hard work. You also questionned whether it's possible to visit so many countries. I guess it's possible to do it in several years but he mustn't have explored each country very deeply. John's main idea consists in defending that Western politicians and media who see prostitution as an ugly human trafficking are wrong and that prostitutes in the country he visited had been free to choose the job. IMHO, this is questionable. I think that prostitution is neither free nor ugly but it's sometimes a pleasant trade in which both parts find an advantage in the business eg the case tthat you mentionned "prostitution between elderly western men and young P4Ps from poorer countries is consensual enough even if rooted on regretable economic inequality." I have mongered in several countries in my life over a few decades (I started when I was 17 yo) and found that p4p is not so simple. I often saw girls pretending to be free but fairly often pimps are not far from the prostitutes. I remember a Romanian girl I had helped to get a new passport after her passport had been "taken and lost by a young man". She had maintained for weeks the indefensible version that she had no pimp and once she got her new passport, she told me a lot about the bad time they had given her. I also noticed many times that it's difficult for prostitutes to remain friendly with good feelings for their clients. Even when they have no pimp, they are unable to establish a long term relationship. You pay, you fuck and you go. Asian girls (gurls) are just more interesting since they prefer to make their client be a sponsor rather than a one shoot customer. Of course, evryone can find all kind of situations in every country. Not that I pretend that pimps are everywhere, there can be inexplicable reasons for a gurl to resort to prostitution. For example, their need for money doesn't always come from poverty, but I read about all kinds of different reasons why they need money. I thinks it's important for us to avoid those who don't have a strong motivation to do it, not that I defend a moral attitude, but I think that gurls who have freely chosen prostitution are often the best ones.

Coz' you like uncooked sausage with her eggs.

I read somewhere (I believed that was at LBR) that approved cannabis is very light as opium proposed to tourists for smoking on the spot. One need to be interested in pot to find this new thing attractive anyway. 10 years ago, a guy from Alaska had told me that Thailand is big Disney land for grown up people. I think he was right. I'm afraid everything will become slowly like this cannabis story. Have you seen the reduction of surface in the Amsterdam RLDs ?

He also encouraged BMs to visit the orphanages and donate, which many did.

Nookie & tonka (if I heard it right...) :-)     

Amsterdam drugs: Tourists face ban from cannabis cafes Old news - but ???? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55765554

Party Halloween lastnight at DD Inn

started happening some years ago if you ask me. Maybe 5 or more years. Bars were never much of a draw for me, don't like em. In 2009 I found the Guess bar to be comfortable with many of the BM's dropping in for a chin wag and to see who they might barfine that night, maybe spot new talent. Low key. After it closed I stuck mostly to online contact, tho Dark Side had some brief shining moments. I believe the demise and lower attendance at many bars began pretty well before Covid. Thinking it will return to the former glory days is wishful thinking.

Bumped into a gay mate today and he told me that half of the sexworkers at the Jomtien Complex are Cambodian. Have no idea what real Cambodian historical fertility data looks like as i'm sure there is no good data from the Khmer Rouge era. But Cambodians and Burmese do lots of jobs that Thais don't want to do for the wages offered and I reckon sex work is slowly entering that category.

Agree with you here, Duke. What the heck was this kid thinking? Disgusting and totally uncalled for, and counterproductive. There are so many other ways for people to express their views than this. Political activists who do stupid and repulsive shit like this only hurt their cause. We have them in the States too; immature twenty-something’s usually.

Nookie & tonka (if I heard it right...) :-)     

That sentence is hardly a deterrent for any "young, new age" supposed eco warrior to think about their actions. They now know they will get a slap on the wrist at worst, so others will continue to carry out absurd actions. I bet she didn't even know who Tom Moore is, just seemed like somebody who had done good for the public, so is fair game to raise their illegitimate profile. I have no problem with people having a different view on life than mine, or protesting about things they feel strongly about, but when the public pays either through not being able to get their children to school, or worse, not being able to get a sick family member to hospital, I think harsher sentence should be a no brainer.

Bring back the birch