Romans 6:23 (KJV) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Sun, Sea, Sand and Sex - S4
Our inhibitions disappear when we're abroad in the sunshine, surrounded by all those men.
"A big part in losing my inhibitions is the amount of alcohol that I - and everyone else - drink when we're abroad. After a night of endless cocktails, or rum and coke, the usual rules go out the window."
Unfortunately for Claire, her luck had just run out. Blood tests and a smear at a sexual health clinic confirmed that she had, indeed, contracted chlamydia - the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI), and one which, although often without symptoms in women, can cause untold damage to fertility if left untreated because it can spread to the uterus and fallopian tubes.
For Claire, the diagnosis meant an emergency five-day course of antibiotics.
Two years on, she is still angry and regretful that she might have jeopardized her fertility with such an ill-advised and tawdry fling.
"At the time, I wasn't worried about getting pregnant because I knew it wasn't my most fertile time of the month," says Claire, who lives with friends in Islington, North London.
"The doctors told me they don't think my fertility has been affected in the long term, but they say I won't know for sure until I want to try for a family. Of course, that is a shattering warning for a young woman, and I'm now desperately anxious. I would love to settle down and have children one day, but now I might not be able to.
"I was so upset at the time that I confided in my mother. She was quite sympathetic because she knows I'm normally responsible, but she gave me a stern lecture on safe sex and drinking too much on holiday. I have to agree it was too high a price to pay for a sexual thrill, and I'll never do it again."
Such regret seems depressingly rare among a generation of young women who have come to regard foreign trips as an excuse to drink themselves senseless and sleep with as many men as possible.
They admit they take far more risks than they ever would at home - willing to shed inhibitions simply because they are on holiday.
And the disturbing reality is that these are middle-class women - the daughters of professional and wealthy families.
At a time of the year when tens of thousands of girls have gone away after A-levels, in their university vacations or on annual leave, these stories make sobering reading.
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"SEX IS PART OF TOURISM INDUSTRY" - says WHO?
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| Can Malaysia sustain its achievement as one of the world top 10 most popular destinations by offering only Sunshine, Sea and Sand without the other S - sex? |
Of late, there had been a lot of front page coverage by local newspapers about how tour operators, by hoping to attract and increase their earnings, organized strip tease dancers, dressed in local costumes and dancing to the beat of sumazau and other local popular music, to bare it all in front of foreign tourist in secret joints.
The question was posed by En Mat Fisal, an officer from the Federal Ministry of Tourism in Kota Kinabalu, in his one day lecture to the class of 18 hopeful participants of an intensive 22 days LNG course/bootcamp at Tawau Hills Park.
Many of the participants were quite 'green' on the topic but few of the others were puzzled as to the correct answer.
This issue, no doubt, is controversial and would no doubt create divergent viewpoints.
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