Posted by LR on March 08, 2004 at 11:02:37:
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Snuff Resorts Are Latest Outsource Casualty
By Jennifer Pagels, Explore! Online Staff Reporter
Babes In the Woods, a Wisconsin hunting resort on the coast of Lake Michigan, used to draw two thousand hunters a year from all over the United States. Guests at the rustic setting would commonly take three thousand animals between Memorial Day and Labor Day,
“In peak season, the ranches were shipping us more than two hundred girls a week,” says resort manager Judy Worster. “We had our own taxidermist, our own butcher – we even ran a beauty salon!”
Today those peak-season numbers are down nearly 70 percent. In the last two years, Babes In the Woods has watched much of its business move to a familiar competitor: China. Just as cheap labor has attracted other industries, cheap girl-flesh has drawn the snuff resort industry to Asia’s largest nation.
“Our hunters are mostly local now,” Worland says. “Guests still come from Chicago and the upper Midwest for the special lakeshore experience. But a lot of hunters are just looking at dollars, and that’s hard to beat.”
While Chinese resorts also have an edge in the cost of ranch labor, their biggest advantage lies in girl-pricing. While a prime babe raised in the U.S. costs more than $6.50 a pound, provincial ranches in China can supply a prime twenty-year-old beauty at less than two dollars a pound. Land and feed costs also play a role.
The Happy Hunting Lodge north of Shanghai sold 4,500 “super-deluxe hunt vacation packages” last year. For about $2,000, a hunter gets five nights of comfortable lodging, golf, unlimited meals and a four-girl limit – including airfare from Los Angeles. $2,000 buys three nights and two girls at Babes in the Woods, without transportation.
The forty-acre preserve at Happy Hunting is less thickly forested than Wisconsin, but the grassy hills and clumps of timber make a pleasant hunting environment. On a recent visit, sixty guests are scheduled for the day’s hunting. The first ten, including six Americans, show up at 7 a.m.
Megan Richards, a thirty-two-year-old commodities broker from Kansas City, wears camouflage and carries her own compound bow, with special bone-shattering arrowheads.
“This is my second hunt on this trip,” Richards says. “Yesterday was fun – I put my first arrow in the girl’s thigh, and it ran for nearly an hour before I made the kill.”
Inside a wire fence, sixty nude young women shiver in the chill. They’re beautiful stock, with smooth, appetizing bodies and pretty faces. About half are Asian, but the rest are “western,” meaning whites, Latinas and black girls, all bred on ranches in China.
At 7:15, twenty girls are loaded into a truck and driven out into the preserve, where they are released. The hunters set out at 7:30. They are allowed to dispatch the animals with arrows, spears and knives – firearm hunts are limited and more expensive because of obvious safety issues.
When a hunter makes a kill, he or she activates a flashing light that alerts the ground staff. The dead girl and its hunter are brought back on small all-terrain vehicles. Megan Richards rolls in after about forty minutes, with another hunter from Germany. In the ATV’s cargo box are two dead Asian girls, with arrows still embedded in their soft flesh.
“That was really fun,” Richards grins. “The babe took my first arrow in the stomach, and then walked about a hundred yards before it went down. I let it suffer for awhile and then put my knife in its heart.”
An attendant loops a noose around the dead girl’s neck and hauls it into the air under a steel gallows. The white flesh gleams as the girl dangles from the rope. ,Richards squeezes a round breast and smiles for the camera.
“It’s hard to beat a deal like this,” Richards says. “I used to hunt babes in Virginia and Utah, but I’ll probably be coming over here in the future. The flight time is exhausting, but the golf course is nice, the staff speaks English, the spa is nice and the babes are yummy.”
Like a lot of American resorts, Babes In the Woods has started offering special perks and attractions for the local market. A gourmet chef, free trophy mounting, state-of-the-art torture facilities and custom butchering are meant to provide a special experience.
“We’ve had to change our emphasis and focus on the customer,” says Judy Worster. “It’s been tough, but we’re finding new ways to market.”
And Worster has introduced one other innovation that will help her resort compete.
“Last year we bought our livestock from Mexico,” she says. “This year, we’ll get them from China.”