This is fun. According to Bloomberg, the company not the mayor of New York, a British citizen may face up to 6 years for having sex on the beach (the action not the cocktail or possibly both) in the UAE city of Dubai. In addition to the public intercourse, Michelle Palmer was also charged with public indecency, assaulting an officer, and sex outside of marriage. The charges were only piled on after Palmer was caught a second time that evening and swore at a police officer. Long gone, evidently, are the times when imperial powers could traipse over … Read More

Researchers have long argued about how the Syph initially came to be on mainland Europe. Its first outbreak was in 1495 among French soldiers. Some scientists thought that it was just a spontaneous outbreak of a previously harmless strain of something or other. And other scientists couldn’t help but notice that the timing of the outbreak was pretty much in lockstep with Columbus’s return from the New World. Which means that the first venture capitalist and his crew evidently enjoyed some of the local wares and can probably be considered the Caribbean’s first sex tourists. French … Read More

Kenya Dig it? Evidently, the new sex tourists are older, white women. Many of them hail from the United Kingdom or other places of wealth and power. And why not? Stella was cougar-ific. Why can’t gentile white women enjoy some of that hot action? The film Heading South captured a trio of unhappily married middle-aged American women traveling to Haiti to enjoy the company of some local men. We’re never seen it, but we assume that hilarity ensued, nothing bad happened, and everyone was richer for the experience. Sex tourism has been around since the beginning of travel. … Read More

From Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - One in five young Britons has sex with a new partner when travelling abroad, putting them at risk of contracting HIV and other diseases, researchers said on Thursday.

Most pick fellow Britons or Europeans, apparently believing this minimises the chances of HIV infection, but they are largely unaware of the dangers of other sexually transmitted infections.

With overseas travel soaring due to low-cost flights, holiday 'flings' represent a risky pattern of behaviour that should be better targeted by healthcare authorities, according to Dr Catherine Mercer of University College London.

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