Prostitution is legal in Costa Rica, supposedly with the purpose of preventing disease. I'm told that the ladies have to have a weekly physical and carry a card saying they are "disease free".
You see both women and men prostitutes on the streets at night - such a sad, desperate scene.
A few weeks back there was a large article in the Sunday newspaper regarding those that are advertising on the internet trying to attract "sex vacationers" to this beautiful country. This such a great place to visit, it doesn't need to be degraded in this way!
Carroll may have already written about the men he's met at the golf course, the 50-65 year olds bragging about their 21 year-old girlfriends, and the man we talked to at the airport who was going back to the U.S. but would "sure miss the women in Costa Rica".
The women here dress provocatively and see American men, and probably most foreigners, as rich and a ticket to a better life.
Night before last we were eating with a large group of missionaries in an American chain restaurant and beside us were two American men about 65 with two ladies in their early 20s, probably "professional women". It was such a sad scene. They couldn't talk to each other. The girls were talking and the men were talking but all the while, cuddling and communicating in physical ways. These girls could have been our daughters or more likely our granddaughters. My heart broke for them and for the men who have such a distorted view of life.
When we were here in 1999 the Catholic church still had enough influence to control public homosexuality but I'm told they have lost influence and this group is gaining influence and recognition in Costa Rica.
There is much more blatant sex and nudity on television and in the movies here than the U.S. as well as foul language. I've come to realize that even though we in America are rapidly declining morally, we are still "behind" the majority of the rest of the world". Maybe it's really not too late to make a turn around.
Please pray for God to do a great work in Costa Rica; that He will touch the hearts of the people to demand righteousness and set an example of holiness for the coming generations. The religious leaders must preach and teach Godliness and we need a spiritual revival desperately. As in the U.S., evidentally the Christians are sitting back and letting the world take over.
II Chronicles 7:14 applies to Costa Rican Christians as well as to us in the U.S.
