Fireballs, am stating a fact, am not pointing a finger to you.
Please forgive me if I read a little harsh...
I don't quite agree with this: "I think in Mexico the situation is a little different because many many people are very poor, and sometimes there is no choice, and the wife or girlfriend has to bring home the money somehow, with the husbands knowledge. Sometimes, these wives or girlfriends, will hook on the side for extra money, without telling their husbands or boyfriends. You really don't have that in the USA, with some many credit cards around. I think these guys who we consider as Padrotes, are just regular husbands or boyfriends?"
You are mixing oil and water here, and no, the situation of TJ and La Zona is not a general rule for the whole of Mexico.
You have the idea that a girl from the poor socio-economical level of our country can become a hooker and will land in TJ or any other Zona, but that is not true. The majority of the poor in Mexico are native Mexican indians and they are really not the type that can fit within the caste of prostitution (we Mexicans are openly racists to native Mexicans and to lower classes too)
You don't know quite well the dynamics of our society, nor the mechanics of the prostitution as business. As a matter of fact, you can't even notice the difference between castes of our society, much the less the castes between prostitutes.
Prostitutes in La Zona are there working, and this is a wild guess, cause they need money???
And I say "wild guess" cause in my 5 years of posting at different forums, I have never ever read someone seriously post the reasons the girls are working as prostitutes at TJ, because you don't seriously care.
Which is OK... you are here to have fun, not to take the weight of the girls and carry it yourself.
Ok, take note:
1. Girls are in the business to make money. Here we subdived into the part where there are girls that keep all the money for themselves to make a living and the girls that are exploited by padrotes (boyfriends, pimps)
2. Girls are here in the business cause they are the only providers for their family. Hardly any of these girls mix with padrotes.
3. Girls are in the business to make money for their studies and higher education. They work hard for a period of time and then pack up, go home and forget their former lives (sometimes they don't pack up... they are locals)
Your thought Fireballs?
(I have to fly away... got some stuff to do, today is Mother's Day in Mexico. We celebrate today, not on Sunday as you guys do)