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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happens all the time with DOS. ALL THE TIME just most FSOs get away with it.[/quote]

+1.  I do think that a certain type of man, already prone to misogyny and the belief that he "deserves" certain attention from women, tend to behave progressively more horrifically in overseas locations that offer the opportunity.  By opportunity, I mean throngs of much poorer women whose society encourages them to try to get a Western male husband because the locals believe all Westerners they see are super wealthy.  Those societies tend to already have issues with women's rights, so the misogyny is something the women have grown up seeing and hearing from family and community.

We were in several Eastern European countries for many years, and while the majority of men aren't like this....many of them are.  The women they targeted were not women with authority or access to support, but very poor, usually much younger women who often tolerated worse treatment anyway.

The worst case we saw was a middle aged man who boasted a lot about his five different 18-20 year old girlfriends, all of whom were "model beautiful" and had "traditional values" and "know how to be feminine."  My assistant explained that each of these girls would have believed and hoped she was on the path to marriage with the wealthy Westerner, and that her family and friends would be supporting this fantasy.  Meanwhile, the guy would laugh about tearful voicemails they left him.  At one point, he convinced some of them to go to bed with him at the same time, telling each girl privately that the other was a paid escort.  So gross.  Even more gross was the slippery slope to tolerance of this kind of behavior among the expats.  [/quote]

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