He is one of a growing number of European and American tourists flocking to the Dominican Republic to live out their illicit fantasies with underage girls and boys. In Santo Domingo, and especially its most popular resort, Boca Chica, Krishnan finds young boys and girls out and about in public areas from 10am, soliciting older, male international tourists right under the noses of police too corrupt to care.
Krishnan speaks to a number of young sex workers, many who are forced into the streets to escape poverty and abusive homes. And any man who wants to pay them to have sex is a child abuser.
Supiro was just a boy when he started having sex with male tourists for money and now he helps young people being similarly exploited, or at risk of it.
They want to try a Dominican boy, a young boy. They can live out their fantasy here. Another young man, Chulo, works as a procurer for sex tourists and keeps a cut of the money they pay. He says he gets no trouble from the police. This is a system of exploitation that relies on tourists with a perverse sexual appetite for children and children so disadvantaged they have little choice but to relent.
Krishnan also speaks to two foreign tourists with strong opinions on the exchange of sex and money in the Dominican Republic.
