March 23, 1997, Il Gazzettino, Venezia: Sex Tourist “Thrown Out” of America

Espulso” dall’America un turista del sesso - Chiedeva informazioni su sesso
Sex Tourist “Thrown Out” of America - He was Asking for Information About Minors

Written by Roberto Capodieci, Information Consultant

I have lived in the United States, and still often visit there. Nostalgia leads me to navigate and chat (via the Internet) within that neighborhood. With a little trick, however, I am able to appear in the eye of other users as if I were “pure American”, thanks to a change of address that I make via a provider in Florida. And sometimes it happens that I can run into other Italians who, navigating, wind up in these little areas of discussion usually frequented by Americans.

One day I received a message from some fellow who asked for information about Florida, and about how to spend a nice vacation there. A brief look at the information of the user and it occurred to me that he was not only an Italian, but was using a Venetian provider. Continuing with the pretense of being an American by replying in English, and supporting this pretense, I went on with the discussion, and discovered that the person in question was a fan of sexual vacations throughout the world; he wanted to know what were the closest places for accessing Cuba from Florida.

I thought he was joking; but in a bid to convince me, he then sent a (blur) photo which portrayed a child having relations with a man (with the face wiped out).