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07/25/2007: "Decaying England sends sex tourists to Baltic"

Riga, with its beautifully preserved Old Town and the nearby sandy beaches of Jurmala, was a popular holiday spot for members of the Politburo during Soviet times. But the opening up of the country to the West, a process accelerated by the arrival of low-cost airlines, has spawned a very different kind of visitor and a proliferation of late-night pick-up bars and strip clubs.

Over the next month, Latvian girls will be asked to consider very carefully whether they should agree to have sex with a visitor in return for a drink. The campaign also suggests that "sex tourism" should more accurately be called "sex terrorism".

In Krakow, another east European city that has been inundated with badly-behaved Britons, local leaders earlier this year said they wanted to control the excesses of stag party revellers. And in Slovakia earlier this month, a British groom-to-be who stripped off and jumped into a fountain in Bratislava was given a jail sentence.

[ Modern society turns love into sex and makes it a cheap commodity. No respect, no sanctity, ...no hope. ]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/06/23/etlatvia123.xml