Latvian girls urged to say 'no' to sex tourists

A campaign has been launched to protect young women in Latvia. Latvian girls are being urged to steer clear of one-night stands with tourists as part of a campaign to prevent the capital, Riga, turning into the "Bangkok of the Baltic".

Riga, the Bangkok of the Baltic?

The move comes following a huge increase in visitor numbers to the country, which has become popular with British stag parties looking for cheap alcohol - and sex. 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".

"We want Latvians to accept that there is a problem and to start discussing it properly," said Evita Bille of the Alfa Centrs advertising agency involved in the campaign. "We don't want to be seen as a place where foreigners can come for cheap sex. We don't want to become the Bangkok of the Baltic.

"It is now so bad that many girls are frightened to go to the Old Town because tourists assume they can offer them money for sex." 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.

Those behind the campaign hope it could lead to laws curbing the seedier aspects of life in Riga, leading to a restoration of its image as a city of high culture.

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.

telegraph.co.uk

How about such stencils on Riga walls?

This is not normal... I am often asked to have the same.
But here, every girl decides on herself. If somebody is looking for a serious relationship, it doesn't mean to have sex straight away.

bboy
How about this one dude

that is just advertisement, that does not mean that latvian girls are whores

Seems like the old city is a kind of " red light district " most big cities have this area , cost though , a price of a drink , seems like it's basically free , so maybe the girls just enjoy sex with different me ? please enlighten me ?

Make sense... a very healthy approach.

A new wave of emancipation? : )

Eastern European woman and Russian woman are the most beautiful woman in the world, that's why cuba turn communist in 1959 .

You can clean up this Bum tourist problem with your City leadership and the Police. They did it in Ft. Lauderdale at least at the Beach Area. Class it up, you'll get a better brand of tourist in the long run. How about get the Rep. for having nice girls to banter with on your vacation. Let the sex tourists hit the Orient.

why should they let the sex tourist to hit the orient? where do you wana refer? those that go to that coutry for sex are not only from the east! right? mostly from the west as i know
please dont forget that originalyl i belong to west as well even if i am criticizing your sentence

I heard Bangkok has the largest sex tourism in Asia.

Latvian girl is very pretty

I stayed in Riga two months ago aand i dont feel the girls worried about it.