| | LS: I heard that the top industry in Cuba now is prostitution.
Can anyone confirm or deny that rumor?
Last year at this time, I finished a class in Global Crime taught by Gregg Barak. We covered the international sex trade and Cuba was a topic. Gregg is an old leftwing guy from Berkeley, so he had nothing to say, and the rest of the class just shifted uncomfortably, when I pointed out that this is an ideological problem, that after 40 or 50 years, two generations of modern communism, the best job for woman in Cuba is to date an old European guy for a week.
But that's how they do it. You don't so much as get the quickie there, as you find an escort for your stay, someone to have dinner with, go to theater, that sort of thing, and of course, sleep with. Seems ideal. I mean, anyone who goes to Cuba has to fly there -- and not from the USA. So, the women get a good clientele. The sociologists and criminologists wring their hands over this -- old white men, seeking the "exotic" and exoticising "women of color" to "exploit" them for sex, of course -- but, again, if that's life in a worker's paradise, then the academics need to check their premises.
I am not telling you anything you don't know, but if you compare Cuba to Taiwan, you see that being an island nation hated by the world may or may not be an essential characteristic of prosperity or the lack of it.
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 12/25, 4:50am)
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