MrX Posted August 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 TTM wrote : "Isn't legal working age for a gogo 21?" No..believe it is 18 (could be wrong though)...But an eighteen year old cannot enter a bar as a customer.....welcome to thailand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soongmak Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 No..believe it is 18 (could be wrong though)...But an eighteen year old cannot enter a bar as a customer.....welcome to thailand! I concur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 18 to work in bar 20 to be a customer Thai logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encore Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 >20 to be a customer< But of course! I wouldn't want my 20 yr old daughter to walk into a place like this with her Boyfiend. how dreadful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gummigut Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 JJsushi: Man, your arguing using politician statements with no facts in your arguments doesn't help! Okay, when we talk about eliminating prostitution, lets be realistic. It won't be eliminated. That hasn't happened anywhere. What can be done is to crackdown on prostition which could remove Thailand as a sex tourist destination. Doing that MIGHT make the economy burp. It wouldn't stumble. Okay, you want statistics. For the year of 2003, male visitors were greater by 1,890,658 people (not including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Vietnam). I did not include SE Asian countries where men would come here to work. Now, we can assume that males who did come with the females engaged in prostitution, but I feel this would be offset by the fact that %wise, males make a larger portion of visitors to Thailand based on business. So these offset. We're left with the figure of 1,890,658. Assuming all these "sex tourists" vanish, then that's multiplied 8.19 days @ 3,774 baht per day and we get a sex-tourist value of 58,438 million baht. So, let's say there's a multiplier effect of this money of 1.5x. That's 87,657 million. Divide that by 5,938,900 million of 2003 GDP and you get less than 1.5% of GDP. I still believe the % is overstated in a number of ways, but it's not bad. BOT GDP isn't real GDP as the black market is HUGE in thailand. Tons of visitors come here for business, thus there would be a disproportionate number of male visitors that we lopped off. In any event, the number ain't bad. 1.5% is a burp. It ain't no big thing for a country straddling developing and developed world status. <<burp>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 "sex workers are simply, IMO, a good bunch, hardly the worse that Thailand has in store for farangs or anyone." P127, I'm pretty sure U didn't mean as a joke, and U're right if that was the worst Thailand had in store for farang...well... wouldn't be that many farangs around. but a "simply a good bunch"?!? Very naive and simple IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattaya127 Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 Very naive and simple IMO --------------------------- Impossible. If i was naive i would not have lasted* in Pattaya for so many years, and i've been acquainted with too many, to speak out of ignorance. By acquainted, i mean knowing them not especially as sex partner, but on a daily basis, month after month, away from the bars and gogos, where I do not go that much to begin with. I do understand that for a lot, this is the setting in which they only see them. May influence their thinking. But yes, they're no worse than any other thais, as a group and as individuals. *some spell trouble. I ain't denying that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasmine Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 [color:"red"] Impossible. If i was naive i would not have lasted* in Pattaya for so many years, [/color] Wow, now are you saying that Pattaya is a trying place? IMO, It is the way ones think and perceive P127. Also, some people like you do get to know these people outside the bars. I had a pleasure of meeting the ex-BGs that I remember with fond memories, there are, unfortunately, more bad ones that I have bad tastes in my mouth. I also, met some educated ones who are devious (with no excuse) and I found them worse than the BGs or ex-BGs, period. Jasmine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 rompandadam said:bar leads her to believe she will actively be not re-employed without the buy out fee..also she will not be welcome there as a visitor... Not bloody likely. She is a good earner for that bar. Can you say "high pressure sales tatics" boys and girls? I thought you could. <RIP Mr. Rogers> Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encore Posted August 20, 2004 Report Share Posted August 20, 2004 Suadum >Can you say "high pressure sales tatics" boys and girls? I thought you could. <RIP Mr. Rogers> < Excuse my ignorance, but did that sound like an inside joke? Please elucidate me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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