Re: Paper Tiger

Your binge in Bangkok did you a lot of goods. Now, I've learned virginity is
a prized items. Perhaps, you could advise gals in the West not to give it
away freely !!


"Brian Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Harbinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Pearls Buck's Good Earth dwelt on this aspect of sexual relationship in
> >China when she wrote about Wang, the protagonist , taking a young maid as
> >his concubine.
>
> Yes it's clear that she recognised this as well, but it's not quite
> what I was talking about. It's been ages since I read it, but I don't
> recall that Wang was an old man needing some rejuvenating health tonic
> in the form of a young virgin. That's the belief I was asking you
> about. I can sort of understand why some of these old fogies believe
> that eating tiger bones and penises, or other exotic animal parts
> might give them back their "power", but to view the consumption of a
> young girl's virginity simply as a tonic for their vitality... well
> it's very different than saying a man likes to have a young and pretty
> wife.
>
> >It is Darwinian. It ensures that gene of the strong and able passes down
to
> >the offspring and the weak eliminated. It may seem cruel or inequitable.
But
> >it is the law of nature or "jungle'.
>
> Now you're just spouting clichés. The old men I'm talking about, who
> form the market for young virgins kidnapped or tricked into slavery,
> have already passed their genes to their children (and probably even
> grandchildren). They're looking to gain some sort of vitality by
> having a virgin, not to make more kids. In the process, a healthy
> young girl's life is ruined. Explain the Darwinian effects of *that*.
>
> >Having said this, I vehemently deny that Mao was a pedophile as
insinuated
> >by you with malicious intention in the next part of your posting..
>
> Of course you do, wouldn't expect otherwise.
>
> >Pedophile and related kinky sexual practice is not the monopoly of this
part
> >of the world. Please read Lolita.
>
> Of course it isn't any group's monopoly, never said it was. Pedophiles
> come to this region from all over the place. But as I said, it's now
> being prosecuted without regard to national borders. Most societies
> view it as a serious crime against the child, and a crime committed
> here or in Cambodia can be prosecuted in an Australian or English or
> American court. But as far as I know, most of these perverts don't
> share a cultural belief that taking a young girl's virginity has
> beneficial effects on health and vigour, akin to taking bird's nest
> soup or tiger bone powder. And these low-lifes will not pay the
> hundreds of thousands of baht that is the going rate for the youngest
> virgins, they are reserved for those who will.
>
> You're in Singapore, you must have heard of those couple of small
> islands in Riau where these type of brothels operate. They exist
> strictly for the Singapore market, boatloads make the short trip every
> weekend. Same deal, the youngest virgin girls sold to the richest old
> tycoons as a health tonic. I'll bet the price is much higher than it
> would be at an underground brothel in Nakorn Nowhere.
>
> And before you accuse me of singling out the old Chinese men, I agree
> that even this type of cultural belief is not only with (some of)
> them. Another well reported phenomenon is the belief among many of the
> uneducated, or superstitious young men in South Africa, that having
> sex with a child can cure them of AIDS. And just like most South
> Africans are horrified by these terrible stories and the superstitious
> beliefs that spawned them, I'm sure that most Chinese people must also
> be horrified by this terrible misuse of innocent children.
>
> I am rather troubled that you seek to diminish the issue as some sort
> of normal tendency based on Darwinian laws, much less a normal "aspect
> of sexual relations in China".
>
> Brian
> -- 
>      Those in power believe that if no one is there to point out
>        a driver's mistakes, he simply won't make any. - Bo Yang