In recent years an alarming number of tourists are visiting Mexico not for the beaches and booze, but for the brothels. As if this weren't bad enough, now Mexico is being used as a bridge to bring sex slaves, often underage, into the US, Japan and other developed countries, according to reports by Reuters. Depending on what news source you look at, there are as many as child sex slaves in Mexico - calling them prostitutes just makes it sound too much on the up-and-up.
The age of consent varies from region to region based on local laws, but is as low as 12 in some areas and under certain circumstances people in the countryside get married young. On the whole, however, the general trend is toward creating a higher age of consent of 18 years. Prostitution is legal in most parts of the country prostitutes must be 18 or older ; however, this hasn't stopped pedophilia rings from profiteering in the trade of children.
Things may be changing. New laws in the US have made it possible to prosecute Americans who have had sex with children even if it occurred outside of its borders. And public awareness of and indignation about this issue has grown, even in Mexico. If you're serious about your partying, consider a 'Party Hopper Package,' available at most of the lobby tour offices or at other travel agents downtown.
Be careful crossing the street. The club opens with celebrity impersonators, dancers and circus acts clowns, acrobats and the like for an hour or so, then the rock, pop and hip-hop start playing. The setting is a five-level black-walled faux cave with a two-level dance floor and what seem like zillions of laser beams and strobes. The predominant beats are Latin, house, techno, trance and hip-hop, and the crowd is mainly something.
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