I've removed the Philippines Collages from this site

[Winston]

I've decided to remove the Philippines Collages from this site. It was giving this movement a bad reputation as a sex tourist site, and perhaps damaging my personal reputation as well. So I removed the three Philippines collages and left a message on them pointing to the Russia/Europe Collage instead, which I believe is sufficient to back up the claims of my site and ebook and inspire others to go abroad.

See my message about it there: http://www.happierabroad.com/ebook/Collage2.htm

I will probably add one or two rows of Filipina pictures to the Russia/Europe Collage at the bottom, of nonbar girls, to give it some variety, but without the sex tourist stigma.

What do you think? Is this a wise move for our reputation?

[Winston]

I've put more cleaner looking photos from the Philippines into the Russia/Europe Collage, to give it more variety without the "sex tourist" look. Have a look at the revised Collage that combines both the Russia trips and the Philippines trips.

http://www.happierabroad.com/ebook/Collage.htm

[gmm567]

it might be the best,I mean only 1% of the philipine population is engaged in prostitution and there is a dark side too it. Although it isn't all dark either

[momopi]

I'd probably divide up the Russia and PH photos into 2 sections, and remove the few Mexican ones.

For PH photos, I'd lean toward "fun" outdoor ones, like the beach scenes. Those are usually very attractive to majority of the viewers, versus bar scenes.

Not everyone goes abroad for dating. If you can broaden your scope, i.e. "how to retire early overseas", you'd attract more visitors as well. To live abroad and learn a new language would be a great adventure for them.

[Winston]

There are more beach scenes in the new collage. Check it out. I only used a few photos from bar scenes, and only then, they aren't overtly obvious bar scenes, more like nightclub scenes. Have a look and see what you think.