Older White women join Kenya’s Sex tourists

Actually, older white women also go to Africa. Here’s a story I posted on facebook a while ago: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2638979720071126?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true

I’ve spent time in some of these places popular with the expats (white people mostly from Europe) and well, similar rumors have floated around. One guy was supposedly a convicted pedophile in his country of origin. Now I’ve heard these rumors from people, like my mom, who would otherwise never talk about such things (these kinds of things are too shocking). So my guess is they must have seen something.

Oh and while we are on the topic of expats, many of the women past their prime like the fact that it is so easy to get a young Indian lover. Sometimes they marry them to get Indian citizenship which btw is amazingly hard to get. In one town, a woman who will be 100 this year is reputed to have a 40ish beau. I guess there are dirty old men everywhere, but dirty old women go to India or Egypt.

I’ve read some of his earlier novels. One of my friends is a HUGE fan of his, though.

Interesting that he lived in Sri Lanka. I didn’t know that about him.

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Among the expats in Sri Lanka, Clarke was widely rumored to be a pedophile. Officials in that country turned a blind eye due to his international stature. He was allowed to exploit children in a developing country and no one took action – SM should take a closer look.

I too, in fact, always had the idea in my head that the pedophilia allegations were never addressed and I completely lost my earlier admiration for Clarke when I heard about them, but it seems like I was going off rumors rather than fact. Here’s what I learned in the past couple of days: That the accusations of pedophilia were by the British tabloid, The Sunday Mirror, that they might have been something timed to embarrass Prince Charles as they were released just days before Clarke was to be knighted by him at Sri Lanka, that they were declared baseless after a 2 year investigation, and that the Mirror retracted the story, and Murdoch even apologized to Clarke for his paper’s allegation. The easiest way to check some of this out is the wiki entry for Clarke, and you can verify the rest by following the cited links in that entry, as well as from a Google search. Now, it might still be that the official investigation cleared Clarke in spite of facts to the contrary, but absent some solid evidence, the allegation seems to fall firmly into the category of whisper-campaign and gossip – especially since Sir Clarke was gay, and pedophilia accusations have traditionally been part of the homophobia slander campaign – without some really strong evidence (maybe in 50 years when Clarke’s notes and diaries are unsealed).

he was accused of pedophilia (light-heartedly if you can imagine, i.e. “He’s just another bugger”) in my own family many times (can’t tell if this really started before or after the Mirror story,) but this came in the context of rumors of euro travelers going south and soliciting children for unimaginably foul purposes. I’m not sure if they were true, but in any case it seems the pederast brigade has firmly ensconced itself in Goa and other points north of SL.

My only beef with Clarke was that he was always a big passive SL-booster, just like dear old creepy uncle Tony Grieg, but couldn’t bare to place a dainty foot in the the north (lest it be blown off by a land-mine no doubt).