It has been claimed, and I have been blamed, that my work promotes sex
tourism.
But I cannot be judged that easily.
Yes, it is true that I charged for access to articles with information
on promising strategies for sexual relationships in certain countries.
But actually, the primary purpose of the membership fee never was to
generate income for me, but to keep the information rather exclusive. I
was willing to share it, but only with a few people.
If my primary interest would have been to earn money by providing
information to sex tourists, I would have charged a much lower price, a
price that more readers would be willing to pay. But with the high access
charges, I effectively priced myself out of business.
Anyway, because access charges are high, most of those who are
interested in access choose either to exchange information with me, or to
translate articles. And in that, I am interested for political reasons.
For several years already, I no longer write to earn money, strange as
this may sound. I earned my money writing travel guides, and if earning
money were my concern, I would continue doing this. Less effort, and
less controversial than writing political articles. But I live a simple,
low-key life, and for that purpose, the money I have earned in previous
years will last me until I die.
Many things, I now write either for myself, or in an attempt to bring
some sense to the world.
While I live in a world, or a part of the world, that allows me a
considerable level of sexual satisfaction, I would happily live in a world
that would be even better suited for what I consider the most important
aspects in life: optimal sexual satisfaction, followed by a gentle
death.
The chances may be slim that through my writing, I will achieve enough
social change to ever feel a benefit from it. But nevertheless,
attempting it (and not earning money) is the principal motivation for much of
my publishing on the Internet.
The social change that I would like to see is the implementation of
more personal, and yes, sexual freedom.
Over the past 25 years in Southeast Asia, ever more legal sexual
restrictions have been implemented, and the general social climate has become
ever less accepting of sexuality per se.
Southeast Asian politicians and activists with an anti-sexual agenda
usually proclaim that they want a reversal to previous sexually more
sober human relations. They lie. In all countries of Southeast Asia, the
trend has clearly been anti-sexual, for both social and legal parameters.
And what has been sold as moral restoration has usually been a
first-time sexual restriction.
If nothing would have changed in Southeast Asia since the early 1980s,
I would probably have written much, much less. Or, at least, I would
have written less in the way of political activism.
But anyway, not all of my writing is political activism. I also write
and publish to establish and promote a better understanding of the most
important aspect of life before one's death, which, definitely, is
sexuality. And as I have been living in Southeast Asia for a quarter
century, it is only natural that I discuss sexuality from a Southeast Asian
perspective.
But promoting sex tourism to Southeast Asia would be very much against
my interests.
While I do recognize that men do have common interests (for example: to
live in
freedom), I also know that sexually, other men are my competitors. Men
who are similar to me all the more than those who are very different.
Here, in Southeast Asia, other Caucasian males are my competitors more
than locals.
I don't want competitors around… the fewer the better. They spoil the
exclusivity of the turf. For this reason, I would be a fool to promote
sex tourism.
