Seems like a lot of baby with the bathwater in this thread. Question for those replying: is any kind of “romantic” tourism permissible? “Passport bros” claim that dating standards are unreasonable for men in the US. It seems like there must exist some level of dating difficulty that would hypothetically make traveling to find partners reasonable. Like if 0% of men below the median height/income/whatever could find parners for instance, it seems like we shouldn’t demonize them for looking abroad. Suppose the following were true:

• It is very very difficult to find sexual partners as a man in America

• American men only seek demostrably consenting adults in their romantic travels. Maybe their parnters are just pretending to like them in order to take advantage of them, but there is at least no good reason to believe they are under duress.

Would traveling to find partners in such a case be permissible? Would the intentions of these men need to be to find long-term partners or would short-term physical relationships be allowed? If not, what is unethical about them seeking purely physical relationships and do you think such relationships are broadly unethical?

Any occupation that does not implement collective bargaining in some form will trend towards demanding the absolute physical limit of its workers for as little money as they need to survive.