When I taught in an International School in the Dominican Republic early in my teaching career, I got to live in a place where most people did not have access to education for their children because it was not free. Our building was filled with old American, Canadian and European men with their 15-year old girlfriends whose children did not generally live with them, but the men still paid for their schooling. The problem was that if the women went to visit their children who were usually with t…

That business of American & EU males going to live in places like that is entirely because they can easily find willing baby girl friends. Never let it be said they are pedophiles - they are only doing what the law of the land says is ok where they are living, so they are not penalized & the 'baby girls' of young years are looking for their ticket out of poverty - so it's a mutual business, but still sickening ! You cannot tell me that those relationships are anything but sexual on the part of …

I lived there before Viagra was on the market, but I understood the sexual dynamics. We lived in.a complex that had a pool. Afternoons I would be in the pool, and the men would be in the pool too talking about how their girlfriends had to have a siesta as if this were a legitimate relationship of equals. Most of them were retired, or close to it. I remember the wife of one of the men came and she was at the poolside talking to him and later on, when she went off to do something the men asked hi…