Unas escenas y comentarios desde Bogota, Colombia. Scenes and commentaries from Bogota, Colombia. Colombia boasts about its openness to tourism and foreign investment. However, when Colin Post, a young man from the U. Inconveniently for Colombia's image caretakers, however, Colin has now written an e-book about his adventure in Colombian sex tourism.
Even more inconveniently for a country trying to make over its image into that of a safe, family tourism destination, the unwanted publicity from Colin became insignificant under the avalanche of media coverage following last year's misbehavior by U. Secret Service agents with prostitutes in Cartagena. He taught English, visited brothels, and then came up with the brothel tours idea, as detailed on his Expat Chronicles blog.
Prostitution is legal in Colombia inside designated 'Tolerance Zones. Colin looking cool. The brothel tourism wasn't Colin's first experience with controversy or the edge of legality and beyond. On Expat Chronicles he explicitly described experiences with drugs, sex, bribery - and more drugs and sex. Colin's book is entertaining and interesting. Altogether, it's a fast read, and a short one, at only 31 PDF pages.
Too short is better than too long. But, since he was writing a book, even an e-book, he should have made a book. Instead, he's strung together a bunch of blog entries. Sure, it's interesting and entertaining - but it could be much more. How about more background on the central character, Colin himself: How'd a young Caucasian guy from the U.
What did Colin's various Colombian girlfriends - not to mention his parents - know and say about his brothel enterprise? This city, with its chaotic traffic, potholes, beggars and horsecarts clopping past skyscrapers is a novel experience for many visitors. Few places would offer more ambience or opportunities for descriptions.
