SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- It's Saturday night at the Key Largo, and Van Halen and Lenny Kravitz blare over the flashing disco lights. But nobody has come to dance. At the bar, a teen-age girl in a transparent white dress approaches a fortysomething American in jeans and a green print shirt. ``You're alone,'' she says softly. ``Want some company?'' He acquiesces in a mixture of English and Spanish and offers her a drink. She gives no resistance as his hands move up and down her body. This may be Costa Rica's biggest boom industry. Thousands of American men are thought to visit Costa Rica every year looking for sex for pay. ``It's fabulous because nobody is forcing anybody to do anything,'' the American at the bar says, refusing to give his name. ``It's an exotic escape, a fantasy for the bored.'' Children's rights activists say there is nothing innocent about it. They say foreigners -- especially Americans -- come to Costa Rica increasingly in search of sex with children.
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