No. The issue is far too complicated, and I have many conflicting views on the subject (Hey, I'm a Gemini!). This led to a key creative decision: the film would not have a narrator. Instead, it would be pieced together with what the interviewees said. That way, all opinions expressed in the film would be fact, at least for the characters presenting them. (Flip side: some things I knew about and wanted desperately to include in the film had to be left out. If nobody talked about it, I had no way of introducing the point.)
But since I raised the subject, here are some of my views on sex tourism:
- I have no moral objections to sex tourism and prostitution, long as nobody's forced into the trade.
- But aren't most sex providers forced into it by poverty? Yes, certainly in the developing world they are. While I'm against stuff like poor villagers selling their daughters to pimp, I respect men and women who willingly enter the trade to make a living.
- I morally, ethically and violently object to pedophilia. Sadly, pedophiles are sex tourists too.
- I loathe anyone who mistreats sex workers, or feels superior to them because they are poor or non-White. You see a lot of that around.
- There are socio-economic consequences to sex tourism that I'm uncomfortable with, but it's not my place to preach about them. That would be arrogant. It's also the reason why Cowboys is not a didactic film.
- There are always more reasons to visit a foreign country than cheap, readily-available sex.
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