Police Crackdown against sex tourism in Fortaleza
Hello Mongers!
I have just read a breaking news in an Italian website about a police crackdown both in Fortaleza and Italy. The crackdown is connected to the sex tourism in Brazil.
It seems that some Italian policemen, in collaboration with the Policia Federal of Brazil, travelled in Fortaleza in November under coverage, acting as normal sex tourists.
The policemen attended all the bar/sex scene in Fortaleza for some weeks, taking pictures and videorecording the people with the garotas.
It seesms that they also discovered a network of prostitution involving minors.
The Italian and the Brazilian police arrested today some people connected with the sex-tourism business (also some travel agents) both in Brazil and Italy. They also arrested some tourists accusing them of having looked for sex with minors.
The crackdown is still in action.
As the Italian media always look for scandalistic news of this type also to keep away the public opinion from the discussion on the actual political and economic problems of the country and as many policemen and procurators know that they can easily gain glory, media exposure and career advantages with this type of operations, I would expect a big noise on the media about this story.
The risk, for some mongers, is to be involved in the police operation and maybe face a judgement even if they were not involved with the prostitution network and never had sex with minors.
There is also another risk: to appear in TV in any pseudo-journalistic broadcast claiming to denounce the sex tourism in Brazil. For sure the videotapes recordered by the police will be passed to the media to give more visibility to this police crackdown and to give more glory to the policemen/procurators who prepared this crackdown.
I think that sex between responsible and legal aged people (for money or just for pleasure doesn't matter), is a free and personal choice, which should not interest the governments and the law enforcement. That's why I advice the people travelling for sex to be always wise and responsible, avoiding every possible involvement with minors.
If you are not sure about the age of the girl, always check her ID. Be careful that in Brazil and especially in Fortaleza there are many fakes ID, used by minors that want to enter the bar scene but are not of the legal age.
Brazil is full of beautiful girls who are in the business and are of legal age too, it doesn't worth to risk.
The Brazilian government, since Mr. Lula is the President, is now trying to give a different international image of Brazil, and it's trying to kill the idea that Brazil is a sex tourism paradise, expecially in the Nordeste, and especially in Fortaleza.
Of course, the mayor problem in Brazil is not the sex tourism: the growing violence in the country (more than 60000 homicides this year), the high corruption rate of the political and social institutions, the poverty and the inequal distribution of the revenues, the ecological disasters in Amazzonia, are all problems which are much more important than some middle-aged Americans or Europeans who arrive in the country looking for cheap sex.
We also have to notice that the sex industry targeted to the international tourists is just the smallest part of the whole sex business in the country: Brazil is full of prostitutes of all ages everywhere, and most of them are for Brazilians customers.
But this type of police operations can give the international public opinion the idea that Brazil is really changing: it's a real cheap commercial advertise for Brazil.
So I would expect other crackdowns of this type in the next months.
Of course these crackdowns will not stop the sex business: most of the girls who are involved support whole families with the earnings made with the tourists and they know that attending the bar scene is the only way to have a better life and, maybe, one day marry a wealthy American or European, the same that gaining the lottery, for a poor girl in Brazil.
So Mongers, pay attention, be always wise, and always have fun respecting the law.
Police against Sex Tourism
Hi mongers,
I am from Italy, from Roma as my alias suggests.
Every Italian newspaper and magazine shows on the first page texts and pictures about this Italian-Brazilian police action.
Same in the TV.
Sexual tourism - it doesn't matter if it is with legal aged people or not - is now described in these media as one of the most abominable vice in the developed world.
Media report of horrible 50 - 60 y.o. men taking advantage of poor unemployed women forced to be prostitutes and selling their body for a piece of bread .
Otherwhere you can read of family's fathers neglecting their own families in Italy to spend the all money for frequent journeys to Brazil and continuing sending money to the local prostitutes when back at home!
Of course a lot of pictures, testimonies, interviews.
The Italian police is now oriented to investigate also in Cuba,Thailand,S.Domingo and wherever Italians are used to spend holidays.
Elmo - I like your taste in women.
Top notch girls, dude. :)
Need Help Of The People That Know Fortaleza
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Is it easy to pick up girls for sex on the beach during the day?
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Thanks in advance guys.
Is Anyone One The Ground In Fortaleza?
I hate to impose on anyone's vacation, but you never know when someone will check in. If so, please try to give us an available up-date on the mood and ternor of how things are going in Fortaleza, considering all this new bad press.
I doubt if any of this will slow down the influx of Itillian tourists over the hollidays. Tickets are already bought, reservations and deposits are made or have been paid. But still, I do wish that they'd stop picking on Fortaleza, one of my favorite destinations. I've been going there for years and years and have seen many changes, but it still remains a happy place for me. Especially at New Years.
This news doesn't affect me directly. I tend to make my own way, so I should be fine, but the new high profile presence of even the Local Police I have found to be intimidating (which is why I left Natal after a couple of days)...with police everwhere eagle eying you for just being a single man...well, it does take the wild fun quotient out of the equation.
I've written about this in Fortaleza also, in June, I believe. It is just weird for the Police to be standing outside of Cafe do Mar or across from the Europa Bar at formal parade rest. So you leave with a couple of babes on your arms and...it is just an unconfortable feeling.
I still, unlike most people, have the option of bailing out on this trip over Xmas and New Years if I want. Maybe go back later when things are a little more normal.
Any thoughts on the situation or up-dates would be appreciated.
Thanks
Gauguin
Stay away form Fortaleza (for a very longtime!!!)
Find other hot sides. But out of Fortaleza cause Lula and some italian judges lookin'for easy glory.
In Italy in the least yers it's a normal use of many policemen and lawman and journalist to find easy glory in a "war"against prostitution as if prostitution is the first world problem. So now Italy is a very hard nation to find cheap *****s for men.and now they are exporting this easy crusade in many world reknown hotsides as Cuba and Brasil with ilegal and hpocit investigation.
Yes evey cop and politicman in Italy goes with *****s , but of the very expensives and prived clubs, so they are not afected by this war against the chepers *****s for normal men.
Italy is a shit nation where is every day worse to live for a monger man. all is puritanism. And now they are also exporting this puritan style!
Writen by a man living in Florence!
Is Fortaleza still interesting???
Is Fortaleza still interesting to pick up girls on the beach or in bars?
Does it worth to go there for 1 month? Or any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your answers.