Threesome involving a married couple and one is, generally, unpunishable. Adultery needs charge by one spouse to be indicted.

“Married couples and lovers engaged in partner swapping through the website, police said.”

These married couples and lovers participating apparently were part of the “scores” that were arrested. I don’t think these particular women were being paid for sex. They just wanted to participate but were arrested. This goes back to my original point….why is consentual group sex in a free and democratic society considered illegal?

As far as adultery is concerned…if a husband and wife are enjoying a threesome together, which one is considered to be performing the adultery? See my point now?

Perhaps you just haven’t caught up with the Korean media

Here’s hoping I never do.

But anyways, like I said before, sex between two consenting adults, whether money changes hands or not, should not be illegal. Pimping, and other nasty aspects of the sex trade are clearly bad and require no comment here. But consensual sex? Sounds good to me!

And that bubuplus guy… Smart business man (until he got caught). Give the people what they want, I say.

Kind of reminds me of the other throw-away lines used in the englishee teachers article.

Police explained that not only S but most foreign English teachers teach English by day and smoke marijuana by night.

The case of “R”, a 26-year old American who smoked marijuana with his Korean girlfriend, is a typical case.

All these lines come from a “source” - no mention of names, of course, or of any figures to back it up. Korea’s media is juvenile. In the west, including Japan, most big papers follw a code of ethics fairly closely, and these sort of lines would never, ever get published (unless it were in the pages of a sensationalist magazine or some other trash). Who remembers the recent “beware the ugly white teacher” headline? Can you imagine a “beware the ugly yellow asian?” article in a mainstream newspaper in any other OECD country?

I guess some sections of Korea just haven’t caught up with the rest of the world yet, the media being a prime example.

Did you miss the clincher:

“The women were paid to have sex.”

Getting paid to have sex is the textbook definition of prostitution. Prostitution is illegal in Korea. Case closed.

The men paid to have sex. The women were paid to have sex. This was a prostitution ring, not a group sex site.

That’s an over simplification.

They paid because swinging and group sex are black market commodities in Korea.

In a normal country, this kind of thing is legal and considered the private affairs of the individuals involved and therefore, no extravagant fees are paid to “play” other than a typical website membership fee for the right (and proof of age from a credit card) of communicating in a secure, anonymous forum with other like minded people (wife-swapping and gang bangs are still taboo pretty much everywhere and not many people want to be flushed out as a sex fiend/slut).

It seems like the KNP bust a couple of sites like this every year. If there really are “several million similar websites out there”, then it’s time for the government and Korean society to seriously re-think its official sex values.

Are there legal sex parties going on? Which government branch is responsible for issuing licenses?