Western Foreigners and Sex Trade

This is my reply on a social media site to a Western 'gentleman' that comes to the Far East to participate in 'Sex Trade' and returns home to bad mouth the women, people and the country as a whole.

I know that I am going to say too much and I should keep my thoughts to myself on this subject, but like Donald Trump I cannot keep my thoughts to myself when it comes to some subject, especially the subject of foreign westerners and sex trade.

I will start by saying there are a few good men that come to the Philippines, Thailand and other Third World Countries that marry the local women. They stay in the foreign country and raise families and provide for them. Some take their wife back to their own country. Some take their wife back to their country and return to the wife's country when they retire. BUT, for everyone of these good men there are thousands of sorry S---O---B---'S.

The sorry ones actually believe they are doing these women a BIG favor by coming to their country and spending their money and TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEM and DESTROYING THEIR LIFE'S. They think they are doing the Philippines a favor by helping the economy.

I have lived in the Philippines for nearly two decades. I am now retired. I was in active ministry when I came. I am now home bound and have a caregiver. I did not come to the Philippines for the sex trade and I have never participated in it. It disgust me when I see the elderly men (younger than me), but old with 17 and 18 year old girls. It is embarrassing because most decent Philippine people assume any white man that comes here comes for these reasons, "cheap food,cheap lodging, cheap beer and cheap p---y" (his words - the only reason he would come to this disgusting, dirty country). Likewise it disgust me when I see the young Western men doing the same, but they are not as noticeable as the old geezers.

The sex trade bars in Los Angeles Philippines are mostly owned by foreign men that married a Filipino woman so they could open a business. They to disgust me. If they wanted to operate a house of prostitution why didn't they stay in their own country and do so. They came to the Philippines because they can take advantage of the POVERTY!

I have worked with the children these nasty men have left behind. Many are scared for life. There was a documentary made some years ago, I think called "Lost Angles", if you can watch that and not feel deep compassion for these children and their mothers then you cannot feel compassion for anyone or anything.

President Duterte should actively address the sex trade in his country as actively as he is pursuing the drug problem. I have more compassion for the drug addicts than the foreign men that come to his country and degrade their women. I honestly believe some addicts in this country got started on drugs because they had a sense of hopelessness. I know the young women selling their bodies to this foreign trash are doing so hoping for a better life. FALSE HOPE - it is like a poor black boy hoping he becomes a professional sports start - few do!

People may criticize the women in these countries calling them all kinds of bad names, but what about the filthy men from THEIR OWN country that come here and other places and destroy life's and leave fatherless children behind?

I think that it would be worthwhile for the media to cover these stories - publish the pictures of these foreign men walking around the streets of Los Angeles, Philippines with young girls hanging on them like strutting cocks getting ready for a cock fight. They should print their names, addresses, country of origin also.

I am against vigilante justice, but if the government cannot solve the problem maybe they could. The goal of the vigilante justice is to make people afraid to use or sell drugs I think that might slow the Philippine sex trade if some of these men did not return to their home country walking and upright.

Yes, I am bitter, yes I am angry, yes I am disgusted with these men taking advantage of the poverty in the Philippines. I know I will get nasty replies, but if just one of these men considering coming to the Philippines or anywhere else to destroy the life of a young girl and possibly a child will rethink his decision then send the hate mail.

When dealing with the death of a loved one

The child whose birth Christians celebrate every year on December 25^th grew up and conquered death.  The greatest gift we have ever been given is the hope for eternal life.  Christmas and Easter will forever be tied together in a Christian’s life. 

It is believed that Mary the mother of Jesus lived approximately fifteen years after Jesus was crucified.   I cannot imagine the pain she suffered when she saw him crucified or the joy she felt when He was resurrected and ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.

I have never lost a child to death, but I have lost loved ones to death and I know there is a sense of lost you never get over, but eventually you find a way to be happy again.  I think the hope we were given by Jesus Christ for eternal life is what allows us as Christians to deal with death in a way that our happiness eventually returns. 

I will never forget the death of my mother.  We were very close and I always believed her death would be devastating to me and others thought the same.  When I found her dead that morning in her bed the first thing I did was pray that the Holy Spirit would give me courage, strength and wisdom to deal with her death. 

Much to my surprise her death was one of the easiest I have ever had to deal with.  My knowing that she was in a far better place was comforting and my belief in eternal life allowed me to hope that I would one day see her again.  I am not saying there were not times when I felt sad and lonely.

The greatest thing a Christian can do to encourage another Christian that has just experienced the death of a loved one is to encourage them to believe the life we have on earth is not the only life we will have.  Encourage them that one day they will see their loved one again.  Remind them that the problems of this world will never change, but heaven will be without sorrow, tears, stress and pain.  Please do not say, “I know how you feel, because you don’t, everyone deals with death differently.”

It will always be easier for Christians to deal with the death of a loved one if they will keep in mind the birth of Christ, the resurrection of Christ and the ascension of Christ. 

Paul wrote in 1^st Corinthians 15:54 – “… when our earthly bodies have been transformed into heavenly bodies that will never die – then at last the Scriptures will come true: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.  O death, where is your victory?  O death, where is your sting?”