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Every week a doctor checks them. Herbert H. Ortega of El Paso, executive director of the U. He credits education efforts by the association and other groups, such as the Pan-American Health Organization that he leads. Acuna health officials last week cited some prostitutes for not having health certificates and checked them for disease. Men visiting boys towns say many prostitutes require condoms.

None matches the allure of Nuevo Laredo's walled Boys Town. NAFTA has changed the border, but some things remain the same. La Zona Rosa is one of them. This is the place where a generation of Texas forefathers came to cheat on their wives. This is the place where you can find online reviews of the best bars for attractive partners and the worst of men can turn the tables and dismiss scores of women as being too ugly. This is the place that's so safe that old men pop generic Viagra in a bid to relive their youths and timid first-timers drive for hours to go whoring.

There's something enticingly familiar about the concept of the Mexican whorehouse. The prostitute is the prize cowpokes earn after a long, hard trail. Riding into this fantasy of outlaw pleasure does not mean accepting too much risk.

It's an odd fact that men will travel far out of their way to go whoring in Mexico when there are certainly prostitutes closer to home. For all the forces keeping La Zona operating over the decades, none of them is more fascinating than the psychological forces of exotic adventure and sexual desperation that keep men coming here year after salty year.

David Buss, a University of Texas at Austin psychology professor and author of The Dangerous Passion , an examination of the evolution of sex, jealousy and infidelity.

There's no place quite like the border between the United States and Mexico. The ties between nations are tight here, and the collision of economies looks like a directed explosion of road-grimed trucks, ceramic novelties and sub rosa smuggling.

Laredo and Nuevo Laredo exist like binary stars, bound together at the razor edge of nations and economies. Everything that happens here ripples across the international bridges in the form of immigrants, currency, drugs, trucks, pollution, dollars and wrought iron.

Approximately 13, trucks coast north and south through Laredo every day. Full text. Join the Observer community and help support independent local journalism in Dallas. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox.