I find it quite telling how in this article, child prostitution is portrayed as automatically “evil” and sex tourists are demonized. This encourages a Manichean view of morality, people, and the world which hardly lends itself well to remotely rational discussion. I’m also disturbed by the misleading terminology being employed; e.g., now even in Thailand the definition of child has been stretched to include teens with full sexual development:

“Last year, 2,888 people were charged with having sex with children under 15 in Thailand.”

Children under 15? Many 13, 14, 15 year old girls are as sexually developed as they ever will be. Moreover, notions of a “teenage brain” inferior to that of adults (adult being an arbitrary category set by the State) are neither less dubious nor less agenda-driven than notions of blacks’ or women’s brains being less developed than those of white men. That doesn’t stop such notions from being touted in the oh-so “progressive” corporate media as gospel truth.

Article Link @CNN