Report Reveals UN Peacekeepers Trade Goods for Sex

Virtual Jerusalem ^ | 6/19/15

[MrEdd]

Nothing in the article said goods were withheld.
So it sounds like straight up prostitution, and in an economy where shopping opportunity is limited food and luxury items are always as good as cash.

The under age prevalence sounds like a consequence of having Muslims.

I never posted anything to indicate that this was moral. Just that it is both something that normally happens with people far from home and that this is not in any way something confined to the third world.

On the following thread you see Muslim prostitution of children in Britain. Across the middle east they sell children of both sexes.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287684/posts

Now, to complicate matters, people overseas will also meet people to date. Sometimes these relationships produce a lot of sex out of wedlock, other times it is just restaurants and long walks and talking. Either way and even if they marry these relationships often tick off the local would be suiters and families of would be suiters. Often the person who had a relationship with or marries a foreigner gets branded as a prostitute by the locals. That’s not nice but it happens a whole lot and any study of this topic that doesn’t delve into that aspect isn’t unbiased in its methodology.

[Lorianne]

In the past UN personnel have traded actual donated goods for sex. There has been much written about it. A lot of it has been sold for money profit as well.

[MrEdd]

For thousands of years people who travel have traded all manner of goods for anything else. It’s called barter.

When I was in the Philippines we traded C rations for fresh pineapples and coconuts to people who lived out on these tiny little islands we were searching.

If you read histories of the second world war, GIs traded American cigarettes and chocolate for just about any good imaginable.

On the other hand there were some people busted at Camp Schwab during my first tour there who had been selling food meant for the mess hall on the black market.

So while goods intended for one thing can wind up diverted from their intended purpose that isn’t a given and shouldn’t be assumed in any given case without evidence.