As long as they’re bought and paid for…

Feminist Law Profs points to this truly disgusting excerpt from the Economist’s obituary for Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda.

The Americans, fed up at last with his wiliness and his human-rights abuses, began to part company with him in the late 1970s. Paraguayans as a whole, however, were much slower to be disillusioned. It was true that he treated the country as his fief, to the point of picking out teenage girls for himself when he presented school diplomas; but he paid for the girls, set them up in houses, and gave their relatives money.

Get that? So long as you provide housing and pay for your teenage sex slaves, it’s not such a big deal. Good to know.