Sex trafficking in Costa Rica

goodlife…any where there is poverty/hunger there is a chance for this type of trafficking. as the article mentioned it is often done by members of immediate family. yes costa rica has poverty.
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If the U.S. was not in control of the list it would probably find itself listed as a tier 2 or 3 nation itself.

Illegal importation into the U.S. for sex from Central America and the Far East has been an issue in the States for decades.

I won’t minimise this issue but the larger problem in Costa Rica is the local men having sex with underage girls. Much of the time it is incestuous.

I have no doubt that sex trafficking exists at significant levels in Costa Rica, in Israel, in the U.S., and in almost every other country where there is sufficient wealth to support it. That’s just about everywhere.

What I am dubious about, however, is the numbers. Whether you’re talking about the exploitation of children by their own family members within their own homes, or the transnational transportation of captive persons in chains, or something in between, so much of this occurs in the shadows, under the radar, that getting hard data would be impossible. Comparing Costa Rica to the U.S. or to Israel or to Thailand is meaningless.

Suffice it to say that the exploitation and trafficking in human beings goes on almost everywhere and that it should be suppressed wherever it is found and whenever it is found.

I would agree with Scott, and another member’s post. The U.S. should be on top of the list. In my major city, DHS is raiding the message parlors in China Town, nail shops, etc. Sex slavery may even be happening at the business you walk by every day. I also work for the government, DHS arrests and detains thousands of prostitutes and sex slave women and girls a year.

[quote=”maravilla”]why aren’t they arresting the perverted men who are frequenting these places?[/quote]

In some jurisdictions they do go after the Johns, publish their pictures, confiscate their cars, etc. I’m not sure how much of a damping effect it has, however, as long as the effort isn’t regional. It’s kind of like New York City’s anti-handgun law. Those who want to own a gun just go to a neighboring jurisdiction and bring one home. Same with the sex trade.

Unfortunately, what we’re talking about is a basic drive inherent in human nature, the reproductive act, regardless of the setting or the circumstances. It’s not so different from the compulsion to use powerful drugs once the brain’s chemistry has been altered to derive such pleasure from them.

The means to rid society of these compulsions seems to have eluded us.

Maravilla, I don’t totally disagree with you, but I do also believe that at some brain stem level the sex drive does enter into any sex act with the possible exception of forecable rape. And never having been inside the mind of a forceable rapist, I don’t think either of us can totally exclude the sex drive even then.

I’m afraid that, like drugs, we can never hope to eradicate the demand for involuntary sex, so we need to find ways to eliminate the supply.

[quote=”maravilla”]sex trafficking is a worldwide problem — it’s supply and demand. if people weren’t so depraved there wouldn’t be a need to meet the demand. it isn’t a secret that men come here because prostitution is legal; and hand in hand with that is the desire for underage women. now why is that? the sex trade in asia is flourishing, as well as in the EU, and the US. and who are the people demanding such services?[/quote]

I probably know about 25 single men and many of them have been to CR and NONE of them ever mentioned at all anything about wanting sex with a minor. Yes single men do have sex; that doesn’t mean we are perverted. Very often the pervert that comes to surface is a married man that has a wife that won’t give him any. I haven’t been to a bachelor party in years but that is my memory of them. The married guys are the ones that talk the trash.