Indian tourism's darkest reality...hugely understated!!!

Since I left out the term "sex" in front of tourist I owe an apology for my error and the resulting confusion.

I also made the oblique reference to Nepal forgetting that many people might not catch that. I had an unusual opportunity to encounter that in my first year in India. Let me rephrase that to exclude being a customer. I have had innumerable complaints about obscure references.

I appreciate the entertainment in an otherwise boring day..

Could not understand this too, like so many of your posts!

There are two ways one makes a impression, evidence and observation. Observation ranks way higher than evidence as it cannot be manipulated (unless one is brainwashed to see everything in one light).

If I am wrong I would be happy, but the sad part is I am not.

Now coming to evidence, why don't you use Google which you are so fond of, and you will see the results. The most authentic one being a government study done in 2007 that states more then 50% childern are subjected to some form of sexual abuse.

For your convenience!

My apologies for obcure references to literary and philosophical figures, I was hoping it might entice KaBaary for whom I have a long standing game with.

Also, I edited a post out that I felt might be a bit negative. I engage in debate but since all involved here are old comrades I didn't want such a negative impression even inadvertantly..

Abhishek, I think you should be writing novels --- because fiction is an important way of countering the worlds evils, and was being used that way even before people like Charles Dickens made a career of it (and yes, you can find the plight of the street children even in his books). I don't doubt that we all agree with you that this is a horror, and that it needs to be addressed by society and law enforcement.

You know what newspapers I read. If you don't read them yourself you can see them at the newstand. You will (whether you read English- or Tamil-language papers, I guess) have seen the stories that nayan refers to: not only those about the foreign charity, but about Indian ones, over the years too. You'll know, from those newspapers, the standard response when a teacher is accused of sexual abuse? It is being transferred to another school. Now there is pressure that they should actually be sacked --- but why is the pressure not for criminal charges, trial and punishment?

You see, I very much appreciate your concerns, and share them, as most people here do, but I notice that you don't seem very much interested in such discussion, but would rather attack fellow forumites. That does nothing for the cause. Quite the opposite.

Dont feed the troll and the troll goes away.
A nifty piece of advice this!

My apologies too

Sex tourism in India of the pedophile form is alive and well in India. T
I only wish I could remember the pedophile underground rag that listed all the Indian sites that were prime for these people to indulge in their sick past time.
Puri 15 years ago was rife with this kind of thing, tourists openly abusing many many children..Year in year out

From a Law Enforcement perspective, every abuse of a child is actionable and criminally prosecutable; From a sociological perspective it has to be greater that the statistical error. One, two...ten mongers out of a million non native visitors do not a sex tourism trend make.

I do not recall what our (US) State Department & DHS criteria was, but; A returning single male on tourism to India does not a red-flag raise, while some other SEA countries do. Data driven inferences are very difficult to do, it takes a big transnational longitudinal study to get policy wonks to pay serious attention.

Seems the thread fizzed out without much of help. Anyways thats completely understandable. I hoped the tourists to come up and speak. Still, the article is complete. For everyone who craved for stats, I'kll send the article link once published. Thanks guys.

There is one more face :
The medico-sex tourist: those who come here as medical tourist and then try to have sex with nurses ! These very bad people, should be sent to a vet for vaccinations!

I was waithing for someone to come out and confess to being a pedophile. But, nobody did. I'll confess that I had an unclean thought about a pretty young nurse while in the midst of an examination of the lower extremities. The coldest, hardest piece of equipment suddenly was jammed where you don't want to know. Solved that toot sweet. My thoughts immediately returned to spiritual pursuits..

There you go,
it just goes to show,
when thoughts grow,
others will know,
so don't let it show!

I don't think anyone would confess it but yeah someone can pretty much gve a fair idea about hotspots and stuffs

Hey hippy, thats a new terminology. Is it really happening? Nurse quote is enough to send some hormones running. I guess I never knew it. Let me beware all my nurse friends. Shall i??

Mahaballipuram, Goa and Puri are hotspots in this..........And as I said this type of tourism does happen in India, statistics do nothing to allay that.