Bad Boys(Men) Its Now The Aussies

[Call me bubba]

sad story indeed. all children should have a father and mother and the father help to raise or if not just to support, ,,

as a father who supports his children  this story sadness me

these men make me ..... NO further comment

 

Australian sex tourists taking advantage of young women in the Philippines

 

Peter, 8, and his mother Grace, 35, with a picture of Peter's Australian father, Max, who stuck around and provided for the family but recently stopped his payments.

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IN tiny houses a stone’s throw from the red light district in one of the Philippines’ most heavily-populated regions, young boys and girls are growing up without their Australian fathers.

The children, born to young prostitutes, will never know their dads. They stopped through like thousands of other Australian men do, looking for cheap sex with young Asian women. They found it, but when the women fell pregnant, the men fled. Others don’t even know their children exist.

 

It’s no surprise the offspring of Australians are growing up in Angeles City,

the entertainment capital of the Philippines. It’s practically a home away from home for many

 

Australians, with hotel names like the Boomerang, the Swagman, the Eureka and the Walkabout.

 

They attract hordes of Australian men, thirsty for a drink and something else: A young woman for the night.

Described as “blow row” and a “supermarket of sex”, the red light district 85km north west of Manila is a hotbed of debauchery and fantasies fulfilled. Money changes hands quickly and sex is a commodity.

 

 

Nights out on the infamous Fields Avenue are sold as innocent fun for tourists. But beneath it all is an undercurrent of sadness and heartbreak and crime. It’s sex tourism targeted at

and propagated by lonely, rich Australian men, and the consequences are long lasting for families left behind.

Journalist Margaret Simons toured Balibago recently. She wrote in The Monthly that she was one of the only western women in a city of tens of thousands of people.

 

 

More concerning still was her discovery that Australian men were fathering children to prostitutes and leaving them behind, either with knowledge of their birth or otherwise.

 

“Some of the fathers paid to support their children, then stopped. Some never paid at all. Some don’t even know they have children,” she wrote.

On her visit, she met Kevin, 10, who wants to be a pilot, and Francine, 7, who she says wants to be a teacher. Kevin’s father, she said, was a paedophile in his 50s who groomed his victim from Australia using social media.

 

Francine, 7, doesn’t know her Australian father. She lives in a slum with her mother and the rest of her family.

 

 

 

“Kevin lives ... in a 9-metre-square shed patched together with scraps of building refuse,” she wrote.

She also met Judith, 19, who recently gave birth to three-month-old Jaden. His father picked her up in a bar and, according to the Monthly, doesn’t know he has a son.

 

The story paints a picture of a poverty perpetuated by Australian men and a sex industry dominated by them.

“In the front bar of the Walkabout Hotel on Fields Avenue, you sit elbow-to-elbow with middle-aged, board-short-wearing Australian men who could have been plucked from any suburban shopping mall,” Simons said.

 

“More of them are on the street, surrounded by women, moving like lords of creation.”

Tourism figures support what she saw first hand. Of the almost five million foreign tourists who enter the Philippines each year, Australians are the third biggest spenders. They’re not buying T-shirts and fridge magnets.

 

Dr Caroline Norma visited the Philippines in 1998, where she worked with an outreach program going bar-to-bar. She told underage women they had other choices and prostitution wasn’t the only way.

Seventeen years later, she says little has changed, and that Australian men are the biggest problem.

“Australian men were everywhere then,” she told news.com.au.

Dr Norma, who teaches global and social studies at RMIT University, says Australian men are “taking advantage” of a sex industry driven by poverty and corruption.

 

“I did an internship with a women’s organisation and we did outreach to bars in 1998. By that stage, Australian men were everywhere, even as bar owners,” she said.

 

 

 

 

“Back then I was surprised because Australia didn’t have a military presence in the Philippines like America. There were Americans over there but that was slightly more understandable.”

 

She said she was not surprised to learn Australian men are still flocking to the Philippines because the attraction to Asian women in prostitution is stronger than ever.

 

“Prostitution of Asian women has become almost the model for prostitution in Australia,” she said.

“Rates of Asian women in Australian brothels are about 50 per cent. The research that’s been done in Australia all points towards increasing numbers of Asian women in Australian brothels.”

Margaret Simons wrote that in Angeles City, “the entire town — with a population of about 350,000 — is a brothel, and its support system”.

 

Al Jazeera reported earlier this year that $400m is spent on prostitution in the Philippines each year, a large chunk of that from the pockets of Australian sex tourists.

 

A website promoting Balibago (balibago.com) makes it easy to see why. It promotes young women as sexual slaves.

“In a city that never sleeps, these women are desperate to show you a good time and are known for their love of recreational sex,” the website declares.

 

“Praised for their tolerance to western culture, these girls are hungry to meet you regardless of your age, weight, physical appearance, interpersonal skills, wealth or social class.”

 

Another website explains how a typical night on Fields Avenue might go and offers tips for visitors. It describes how to procure a lady for the night.

 

Men there pay bar fines — an amount of money to a bar owner to secure a prostitute for the night or longer. The money buys them sex and even the “girlfriend experience”.

 

Margaret Simons said Australian men are looking for underage women. That’s the reason they go. Others don’t ask the age of the prostitute, but are equally complicit in keeping the sex trafficking industry thriving.

“Australians are also one of the groups most active in child sex tourism, although in Angeles City, it seems, most of this is not “preferential” but situational — men who have sex with prostitutes and simply don’t care about their age,” she wrote.

 

 

Judith, 19, and her three-month-old son, Jaden. Picture: Dave Tacon directl Source: Supplied

Dr Norma agrees.

“This idea that western men don’t know the age of Asian women because they look the same (as other Asian woman) is false,” she told news.com.au.

 

“Even in western counties, the average age of entry into prostitution is 16, 15, 14. Men who seek to prostitute girls are looking for younger girls. Any pimp will tell you ‘the younger the better’.”

 

The Philippines, sadly, is the not the only Asian country where sex tourism has taken hold. It has been happening in Thailand for generations. Disturbingly, it has also increased in Nepal following the deadly earthquake that killed more than 9000 people in April this year.

 

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), children who lost their families when entire villages were destroyed have been trafficked into the sex industry.

 

Tomoo Hozumi, working with UNICEF in Nepal, said he feared a surge in trafficking during the chaos of April and May and his fears were realised.

“Loss of livelihoods and worsening living conditions may allow traffickers to easily convince parents to give their children up for what they are made to believe will be a better life,” he said.

“The traffickers promise education, meals and a better future. But the reality is that many of those children could end up being horrendously exploited and abused.”

Trafficking in the Philippines happens for similar reasons.

Dr Norma said much of the problem is generational — a young girls’ mother is a prostitute and her daughter follows in her footsteps. It’s mostly driven by poverty but she said Australian men can’t shy away from their part in the problem.

“Poverty is one thing, but it’s also lax laws on foreign ownership of businesses, there’s lax laws in relation to employing children and having them on the bar plus corruption on top of that. Having said that, Australian men are taking advantage of the whole thing.”

 

 

 

 

This investigation examines how children in the Philippines are exploited when Western child sex predators pay them to perform sex acts online.

 

 

 

 

http://mobile.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/australian-sex-tourists-taking-advantage-of-young-women-in-the-philippines/story-fnet0gt3-1227451022673

Edited July 21, 2015 by Call me bubba

[Thomas]

I don't remember if I have told this before:

A Filipina from a poor hard working family thought an Australian was serious concerning them becoming a couple "for ever". Perhaps he was, but after they got a daughter and she was seriously ill (water head) he didn't support at all. Because of the family is poor, they got the treatment for FREE at a hospital in Manila, beside they had to pay the travel from Mindanao and their stay in Manila, which they managed to finance somehow. The surgery went good, but after they got home the drainage got clugged, and then they couldn't afford to get it adjusted in a hospital in Mindanao or to travel back to Manila. The girl died after having much pain in months. The Australian didn't pay any support then either to avoid his daughter's death...  :1 (72):

[Gratefuled]

WOW. Is about all I can say but where can you lay the blame? Not with the women. How about the authority in the country? How about laws and law enforcement? How about the president?

I'm sure this is a dead subject. If laws are not enforced then more laws will be broken and it will become a magnet for foreigners. Oh, it already has, ok.

Arrest a short time in a Philippine jail and deportation with name added to Black List will slow down the foreign attraction to Angeles City and other Red Light Districts.

Oh, again, I forgot, The cops make a living out of it too. Police bribes to look the other way. Ok, how about "sting operations" where dirty cops are caught and put in jail ?

Somewhere someone has to step up and take a strong stand against this. Even if it means legalizing prostitution with mandatory health check ups to prevent STDs.

If there is truly strong enough concern someone in authority can make a difference. If not then forgetaboutit.

[scott h]

Nothing really new here, must be a slow news day.

 

This has been going on for years and years all over the globe. Take the border cities of Mexico, the bars and clubs are full of young women from the interior. Fact is that the Philippines is Australia's Mexico. Poor country with in easy reach of a richer one. I would be willing to bet that is our British brothers (and Swedes) think about it there is probably a poorer (eastern European?) country that the mongers flock to for "fun" weekends.

 

The internet just makes it easier to make prior arrangements instead of heading to the fleshpots of Angeles or Olongapo.

 

Couple this with the fact that like Mexico, the Philippines cost of living draws the "real losers"  from Australia. Again the border cities of Mexico used to be full of Yanks who were hustlers and neredowells. (before the drug wars just made it to dangerous). I am sure we have all seen these guys hanging around malls and markets.

[BrettGC]

Tourism figures support what she saw first hand. Of the almost five million foreign tourists who enter the Philippines each year, Australians are the third biggest spenders. They’re not buying T-shirts and fridge magnets.

 

Says Aussies are third, wonder who the top two are?  Or does she just contradict herself?  As to the bar and motel names, we've all seen the same targeted at other nationalities in equal numbers (anecdotal on my part).  I'm  not saying it's not an issue but hey, it's written by an Australian so there is probably some sort of negative bias.  

 

Interesting that they chose the Philippines, Thailand is a much more popular destination for Australians; easier to get to (more direct flights), cheaper flights, room rates on a par with Phils.

 

Just found the stats on visitors to the Philippines by nationality:

 

1. South Korea

2. United States

3. Japan

4. China

5. Australia

6. Singapore

7. Canada

8. New Zealand

9. Malaysia

10.  United Kingdom

 

It's be an interesting exercise to break down the actual numbers as a percentage of population then compare it against similar figures for Thailand.

 

The actual numbers:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_Philippines#Top_10_international_visitors

[scott h]

It's be an interesting exercise to break down the actual numbers as a percentage of population then compare it against similar figures for Thailand.

 

You know Brett, what I would really be interested to know is remove those who are Dual citizens (Filipinos entering on USA Passports for example) how far down the USA would drop on the list.

[Dave Hounddriver]

All I see is a guy who stopped making child support payments.  Right or wrong that happens in every neighborhood, every city, every country in the world.  Not news.

[Jollygoodfellow]

Australian sex tourists taking advantage of young women in the Philippines

 

I read this bullshit last week, Australians, my god only Australians visit Angeles or any other bar, lol, what a joke. The person who wrote that story has a bias view probably with some intent; an agender of some kind so if anyone who is gullible to think only Australians may have fathered a child with some damn cheap prostitute then all I can say is gullible. Not long back it was the stories about the Amerasian children left behind from US service men so next week the do gooders might pick on the Koreans or some other country.

 

Bahhh 

[Call me bubba]

All I see is a guy who stopped making child support payments.  Right or wrong that happens in every neighborhood, every city, every country in the world.  Not news.

DAVE I totally agree,, not news,.. yet in other countries these women have some type of social system/support to help them. in the Philippines . IT IS ZERO unless its election time.

 

as a father of children I worry a "what if" (sometimes happiness to me) will my children be taken care of/???

 

have i lost sleep in the past thinking of this YES. have I CRIED, YES>. these are my children and I dont want any hurt to come to them.

 

my solution ,

 

 is to provide the mother with a education and skill that she can use to successfully support herself and my children in case....of my death or removal from their lives

Edited July 22, 2015 by Call me bubba

[BrettGC]

You know Brett, what I would really be interested to know is remove those who are Dual citizens (Filipinos entering on USA Passports for example) how far down the USA would drop on the list.

 

Same could be said for any of the countries listed that allow dual-citizenship.  Again, it's in proportion to the number population of the country they hold citizenship in other than The Philippines.  We don't really have a culture of overseas workers here (other than working holiday visas)  so they are all resident or citizens.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Filipino

 

Basically what JGF said too, it seems to be the tone of the entire article.