BadaBing Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 This ain't good for Bangkok , the media is really having fun with this one... Bada Bing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 "...Thais have had a long- standing appreciation for foreigners, even giving Europeans a special name, "Farang." ..." "...She makes about $200 a month and sends most of it home to her parents, who don't know she works in the sex business. If she finds a "date," Wetcharat can earn $200 for one night...." "...Most of the women such as Wetcharat are from poorer regions of Thailand, drawn into the sex trade to help out their impoverished families. Wetcharat got her first job when she was a 17-year-old virgin. A Thai man paid $2,000 to be her first experience. "It hurt," she said Friday night, wearing a schoolgirl's uniform outside a Soi Cowboy go-go bar..." "...Friday, before the club opened, girls knelt around the stage and folded their hands in prayer, hoping for a night of good fortune and for the answer to their dreams to come through the door..." "...Sex is a means of survival in Bangkok, said a 42-year-old masseuse in a four- star Bangkok hotel. The woman, who wouldn't say her name out of fear of losing her job, works from the hotel's beauty shop and is summoned to guests' rooms for massages. She doesn't earn a salary and makes just $2.50 a massage. Sometimes she gets only one customer a night. But for sex, she can make up to $160 a session. It's not something she likes to do..." "...On a recent night in the Soi Cowboy district, several street children wandered among the gawkers and tourists, selling flowers and gum. One 10-year-old boy stopped an American in the street and pleaded for him to buy a flower. Then he offered something else - oral sex for 20 baht, or about 50 cents. While waiting for an answer, the boy rolled his tongue at the foreigner..." "..."Thailand has had a reputation for being an adult-sex tourism destination, but children are on the margins," said Mark Capaldi, deputy director for ECPAT, a nongovernmental organization seeking to stop child prostitution. Its acronym originally stood for End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism, but the group's mission has expanded into pornography and other areas of sex trade. A portion of the estimated 200,000 to 300,000 sex workers in Thailand are either underage or in involuntary servitude or debt bondage, according to a U.S. State Department report. Homeless street children are the most vulnerable, Capaldi said. report..." "...Some fear pedophiles now seek kids in other ways - by easily becoming teachers in Thai schools. "It's easy to get a teaching job," said Luc Ferran, program officer for combating child-sex tourism for ECPAT. "Anyone who doesn't want their background to impede on their work, they can come to Bangkok without having their background checked. Even if you're not looking for children in Bangkok, it's a hub. It's an easy hop to Cambodia or Vietnam." Staff writer Jeremy P. Meyer can be reached at 303-954-1201 or jpmeyer@denverpost.com. ..." Ok, if they say so, it is now all 100% fact. O.k. so we know some of this is just bullshit reporting...now, want to worry about all the other crap they lie about in other matters? Scarey really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 This ain't good for Bangkok , the media is really having fun with this one... Bada Bing So what effect will all this negative publicity have ultimately? Will Thailand clean up its act? Or will it attract yet another wave of sex tourists? The country is like a rudderless ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 Well, figure it might just have a negative effect, by attracting even more sex tourists...or maybe that is the desired effect. But look at the guy beating the drum, an NGO it is in his best interests to keep it all going, it is how he makes his living. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 You're right. There's a huge appetite for this media crap. Bottom line...sex sells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadaBing Posted August 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 Cleaning up their act ? here's the answer to that >>> Bada Bing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 So badabing the answer to your question...it's good for Bangkok. More publicity=more punters=more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadaBing Posted August 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 actually chuck , I was answering your question with a question , then I gave you the answer < i tink > Bada Bing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 I stand corrected....your 'this ain't good for Bangkok' was a statement. Anyway the publicity will be a double edged sword as usual. Good and bad. More embarassed middle-class Thais (if such a creature exists) more punters and more village girls arriving in Bangkok and Pattaya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCgringo Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 I have read parts of this same story in the last week or 2 , so I am not even sure if this guy wrote it , I will last a day or 2 in the USA mind , most never left the USA , most never will, Thailand , Taiwan or Trinadad is all the same thing , a place far away with funny language , weird money and what you see on a travel show on TV, a few days from now another big story will hit, and it will be the news.... OC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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