@ banker you try to discredit everything I post. The fact that one of the articles was written several years ago does not make it any less relevant today. In fact it is more relevant because, despite the prevelance of AIDS and other sexual diseases many tourists still come to the Bahamas looking for sex. Hence many young men are drawn to the jet ski, water sports and hotel industry with this in mind. While you do attest that there is a great amount of inter-personal, intimate and yes, sexual contact between tourists and locals in the Bahamas you, maybe be of who you are, are still trying to deny that sex is a big draw of tourists to the Bahamas and the Caribbean. You further demonstrate your narrow mindedness by claiming that the only information gathered from tourists leaving the country is restricted to little white cards they fill out that does not have a question for them to check if they had sec or not. Well despite your obvious ignorance on the subject, tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry and surveys are taken from time to time to determine what the interest of visitors are and how much of their expectations were met as well as their overall experience was. And the responses are not limited to checking boxes. Then the results of the survey are compiled and sent to various agencies, including to hotels, event planners, tourism ministers etc., While I will not comit myself to exactly which airline it was I read such an article in an inflight magazine. And what was even more surprising other than what was here before discussed, was that some women came to the Bahamas and the Caribbean for a sexual encounter as a birthday or even wedding anniversary gift. And they were accompanied by their male spouses. And most unbelievable, at least at the time I read the article, it was the husband who paid for the gift. The point is if there is such a vast industry for sexual tourism, not every incident of 'sex gone wrong ' is the fault of jet ski operations. And so the elimination of them from the equation will not solve the incidents of young and old tourist women seeking sexual encounters. As one of the previously quoted articles indicate, the young, native male element is the biggest input to this sex tourists phoenomen. And if he is eliminated off the beaches and off the jet skis, the female tourists will still seek him out. This may mean taking their vacations in countries other than the Bahamas.

Maybe that's where the idea fro 'time share' came about. You buy into the plan and continue paying faithfully until you realize you will not be visiting that place anymore or in the case of 'Watergate '. They will not be seeing Island Joe anymore. But even today some continues to maintain him.

This activity (sexual encounters between locals and tourists) is older than jet skis or even Atlantis. When I was in high school some of the boys would work in the hotels as bus boys, waiters or kitchen runners. Then you would hear them talk about "Watergates", a term that reffered to female tourists from the US. And yes at 16 and 17 these boys were having sex with adult female tourists and yes, they were getting money for the favors. And so were the older workers in the hotels and the taxi drivers. Jet skis were not around at that time. And even after the "Watergates" left the Bahamas some would stay in contact with their "island Joe" sending him money in the mail and planing their next vacation in the Bahamas. And some local guys would have 20, 30 40 women sending them money in the mail. they made a living of it...but then again i made this up.

The law says all beaches are public to the high water mark. I use to go on the western tip of PI and anchor a boat with friends. Then the property owners started letting their dogs loose on us. Doberman pinchers. So we started taking 'snacks for the dogs. Not to kill them but to make them sick enough to leave us alone #diarreah

I don't argue with fools

and with this i rest my case:
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**"Several years ago, two female sociologists from the USA questioned 240 women spending their vacations in Negril and at two similar resorts in the Dominican Republic. They found out that about one third of them had sexual contacts with local young men during their vacations. At that, sixty percent of them agreed that probably the young men made love to them just to get money. All the respondents said they did not pay for the sexual services that men provided during their vacations at resorts. But many of the women explained that they paid money for sex as they treated it as economic aid to the resort staff or even the local economy.
Some of the questioned women said they had started sex tourism by chance but loved to enjoy it regularly. Others say they love sex tourism not merely because of sex but rather because of the care and attention that local men give them. These women are even ready to pay for this type of temporary love.**
- See more at: http://www.pravdareport.com/society/sex…"

**Here's some more i made up @ Banker:
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"Female sex tourism refers to sex tourism by females, who travel intending to engage in sexual activities with a sex worker. Female sex tourists may seek aspects of the sexual relationship not shared by their male counterpart, such as perceived romance and intimacy.[1] Women – especially wealthy, single, older white women – plan their holidays to have romance and sex with a companion who knows how to make them feel special and give them attention.[2] The prevalence of female sex tourism is significantly lower than male sex tourism.[3]

Female sex tourism occurs in diverse regions of the world. The demographics of female sex tourism vary by destination, but in general female sex tourists are usually classified as women from a developed country, who travel to less developed countries in search of romance or sexual outlets.[4]

Female sex tourists can be grouped into three types:

Traditional sex tourists, who have similar characteristics and motives as male sex tourists.[4]
Situational sex tourists, who do not intentionally put themselves in a sex tourist position, but find themselves involved in a sexual encounter with local men. Situational sex tourists may fall into the category of either being businesswomen, students, women in overseas conferences or other women who have different agendas that are non-sexual.[1]
Romance tourists, who plan to fulfil their travel with romantic experiences that they cannot experience in their native country.[5]
Within the realm of female sex tourism, male sex workers are vital for the satisfaction of these women, whether physical or emotional. Without the employment of local sex workers, sex tourism for both men and women would not exist. Sex tourism is becoming a global phenomenon. With this movement of different populations to different countries, problems concerning health increase, especially ailments involving sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and hiv/aids. Women involved with sex tourism do not find themselves using barrier contraceptives during the majority of their visit, leaving them unprotected against STIs.[6]

Contents [hide]
1 Terminology
2 Destinations
3 Motives for travel
3.1 Traditional sex tourism
3.2 Situational sex tourism
3.3 Romance tourism
4 Sex workers
4.1 Background and intentions
4.2 Defined by the tourist
5 Health risks
6 See also
7 References
8 Major academic publications
9 External links
"Some tourists travel for the “big banana” as promoted by this local Caribbean singer in song at a tourist hot spot."

One of the biggest problems in any businesses is controlling its assets, especially cash, and ensuring it does not go missing. Theft by employees is a quick way for any business to go out of business. One measure of controlling theft or misappropriation of funds is to ensure when persons are caught they are both punished and dismissed. The rules should be no different for government workers or public servants. Despite the multiple millions of dollars allegedly stolen from various government departments or quasi government companies no one had been charged or seriously reprimanded. If fact the person suspected of stealing many millions from road traffic was promoted to an even higher office with no investigation. And so the t'iefin continues.

Yes regulate the industry across the board. You can go into the casino and buy high call girls with a credit card and the same illegal drugs that are sold on the beach. Let's regulate and police that too.

@groidal. You are the ignorant one. Show me where I even suggested that tourists come here to get raped. Hence the multiple use of the word consensual. Of course you don't know what it means. So that makes you the dumb idiot.