Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Child Prostitution - Asia’s Sickness (Part Two)

by Fred C. Wilson III 
    
 “Forbidden fruits create many jams.”
- Christian ‘One Liners’-
 
In Part one we left off at the Dynamic Disco Theatre where this article resumes:
 
Behind the Glass
 
Still I tried to get the guy to leave but the more I urged him to go the more my ‘friend’ laughed. The guy laughed like a crazy man!  Sensing we weren’t going anywhere soon, I decided to make the best of an uncomfortable situation.
 
Our hostess returned with our drinks; his beer my Coke. She asked us to come follow her. We did. She led us through an unmarked black door; and there they were-hundreds of scanty clad girls sitting around talking and laughing. It was as though the Left Field bleachers of Wrigley Field had been ripped from the stadium and transported to this disco theater! A large glass panel separated us from the girls. There they were hundreds of them wearing little to nothing but numbered plastic placards around their necks like cattle ready for auction. Seeing them made me suddenly aware that I wasn’t back in Chicago watching a ball game. I was a spectator watching a more sinister ‘game’ unfold. Then I was hit with a triple-dose of good old Catholic guilt which can be a positive thing. Like the tempter himself my so-called buddy nudged me insisted that I choose one of the girls. I politely declined besides I’m married. So was he my refusal didn’t make a ‘dent’ in his onslaught. Slowly my defenses tottered. Moments later I was shocked back into reality when I scanned the ‘bleachers.’ Some of the ‘women’ looked like children crying for their mothers as they held their heads against their breasts, sobbing, and wiping their tear stained eyes. Many of these girls smiled, sniggered, talked, or laughed; a few fought back tears and tried to forget their real reason for being behind the glass. Seeing this I knew I couldn’t go along with my so-called friend. Behind the barrier were underage girls-KIDS-children really who looked younger than the law allowed. There they sat in the stands dressed like streetwalkers in miniature. Seeing them made my blood run cold. My ‘friend’ ‘ordered’ two women-one for me and one for himself. The hostess escorted ‘our’ girls back to our tables. He ordered more beer. I opted for mineral water.
 
The girl I was ‘assigned’ to maneuvered her hands between my legs as skillfully as a PT boat on the prowl for an aircraft carrier in the middle of a shallow sea. I didn’t focus on her hands but on my wallet. I was further distracted when right above our table stood this stunning Japanese girl.  She had long silky jet black hair, bright cherry red lips, a magnificent tan body, wore an off the shoulder white blouse, and see-through bikini panties. There she stood inches above me and masturbated to the sound of music playing in the background. Seeing her, a certain part of me grew hard as the John Hancock. At that point I looked towards Heaven and prayed, “Don’t just stand there-DO something!”
 
Hours later we finally left that place. Virtue prevailed. I actually enjoyed the long conversation I had with Nika (name withheld) ‘my’ girl for the evening who thought I must have been nuts to still be wearing my Brown Scapular when her hands went down my shirt when she dangled it around my neck as my ‘buddy’ laughed and poked fun at religion. Never again did I go anywhere else with this guy.
 
The old adage, ‘what goes around comes around’ was actualized two weeks after I left Manila. Being a rich Chinese, a favorite target of Philippine kidnap gangs, my wealthy ex-buddy was abducted one night as he was leaving that very same club.  His captors locked him in a dark room and held him for a $16m ransom. They released him after four months of captivity once his family paid $6m half of the original ransom. As I understand once his captors released him he never went near one of those places again, left the country, and probably ‘got religion.’  For the duration of my trip I only went places with my wife, relatives, and friends. My heart still goes out to those child victims at the Dynamic Disco Theater.

Child Prostitution
 
Child prostitution isn’t something only foreigners do. It’s very close to home. I have known men who’ve ‘dated’ underage girls as young as nine and bragged about it. When I tried to persuade them see the horror of using children for sex and the awful consequences they faced if caught, some passed it off as a joke while others recognized the seriousness of their most dangerous game and presumably quit.
 
 Adult sexual predators are all too common in Asia and surprisingly in the United States where statutory rape laws are strictly enforced.  I’ve known Vietnam era U.S. war veterans who boasted the number of women and girls they raped; eleven year old girls they slept with including the truck driver who towed my car once who casually told me that whenever he visits his southern relatives how they would let him ‘sleep’ with girls as young as nine to ‘make his vacation more enjoyable.’
 
When I worked as a teacher I called DCFS (Department of Children and Family Services) on a few men who used their daughters for immoral purposes. When I taught in Chicago’s public schools I remember the school year when I had to report a child rapist, an attempted suicide, a case of incest, and a rape case! In the United States where even the possession of child pornography leads to lengthy prison sentences, you can imagine what goes on in countries where no such laws exist or not enforced. 
 
This writer will never forget the time he was propositioned by a child of about nine who asked him if he wanted a girl friend but politely told the child, “no-go home to your parents and go back to school.” She meekly thanked him and promised that she would do so and walked away. My heart went out to that child.  PEODPHILIA IS AKIN TO THE BLACK DEATH A PLAGUE OF GLOBAL PROPORTIONS!!   

Profile of a child predator
 
This article has dealt with the victims of child prostitution. Now we’ll focus on the predators. According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) by definition pedophilia are recurrent sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies, of at least six months’ duration, involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child. The person has acted on these urges, or is markedly distressed by them. The age of a child is generally 13 years or younger. The age of the person (patient/offender) is arbitrarily set at age 16 years or older and at least 5 years older than the child (victim). 
 
What is a child molester? The US Department of Justice says that any individual, male or female, who inflicts intentional trauma,  engages in illegal sexual activity with children, and non-consenting minors under eighteen of age; statutory rape. In short this criminal could be anybody not just your stereotypical dirty old men in battered rain coats poisoning pigeons in the park or passing out candy to children in exchange for sexual favors. Pedophiles come in many colors. Here’s the short list:
 
Situational child molesters are people who while not preferring children exclusively will have sex with a child if it is ‘convenient.’ Take the case of the bored sexual tourist in Asia. Fed up with ‘the same old thing’ (prostitutes, bar girls, streetwalkers) these men will occasionally opt for having sex with minors. 

Then there are sex tourists who are either afraid or consider themselves sexually inadequate with adults. They will travel to Asia for cheap thrills with children whom they feel comfortable with. It was as though these men were regressing back into childhood times a period when they felt at ease around girls.   
 
Morally indiscriminate sex criminals are highly aggressive. They abuse children as part of a general pattern which includes a varied assortment of other illegal activities with child molestation only a part of it.
 
Some sex tourists have sex with children because they want to try something ‘new.’ Many of these criminals have respectful professions, wives, families, and girl friends back home but come to Asia where sex is cheap and ordinary as drinking a bottle of beer. Child sex is just another way get cheap thrills. These sick souls are the sexually indiscriminate.

Many men feel sexually inadequate so they travel to Asia alone or on sex tours in order to do there what they dare not do at home: take out their frustrations, sexual fantasies, and anger upon children. These are the men you see on the News who kill, maim, and mutilate their young victims.

Next edition we’ll examine more closely the profile of child sex predators. Forward all questions to:vamaxwell@yahoo.com.
 
“God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn His stomach.”

-Joseph Allein- 

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