Stickman

[dddave]

Stick has been observed on numerous occasions recently, conscientiously conducting research on the serious issue of the Thai sex industry in Soi Cowboy.

His scholarship seems to be particularly focused on AFTERSCHOOL and SHARK.

[chuckwoww]

He is probably trying to assess the impact of his recent article.

[jack_schist]

p.s. Anyone meet a Thai hooker in Cambodia? In Vietnam?

 

 

yep. barfined thai chick working in her sisters bar (freedom bar) in Sihanookville about 5 years ago. name was Nok.

[Bangkoktraveler]

So how far has Stick got with his research?

[shygye]

... about 4".

[kamui]

In how many European countries is prostitution legal? What are the Russian, Khazak etc hookers doing in Asia? In the UAE? I'd only been in Oz a day or two before I was accosted by a Strine hooker. Why the hang up with Thais?

 

For the record, the early visitors to Ayutthaya always commented that the Burmese and Chinese women were the hookers. So were the Farangs mia nois.

 

p.s. Anyone meet a Thai hooker in Cambodia? In Vietnam?

 

 

In some countries it's legal- for example in The Netherlands and Germany - in some not, especially in Scandinavia. But trafficking and legality are two different pair of shoes.

In Germany Prostitution is a legit business. In my hometown they even have to pay a special tax. Nevertheless we have a lot of trafficked women from East Europe. They are illegals and usually forced to work as prostitutes.

 

In regard to Cambo, I never met a Thai BG and I presume that they are very rare.

[Old Hippie]

My only complaint about prostitution is the price...and the occasional difficulty of obtaining a good quality whore state side.

[dave32]

Question: Should prostitution be legalized?

 

Camille Paglia (PhD, Professor, Humanities and Media Studies, University of the Arts, Philadelphia -- and a contributing writer to Salon):

 

"Feminists like to quote these absolutely specious statistics, a typical trick of the feminist movement of the last twenty years. For example, they'll say the majority of prostitutes have been sexually abused as children. But there's no evidence for this! The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients. The ones who get into the surveys have drug problems or psychological problems. They're the ones who were sexually abused. Feminists are using amateurs to condemn a whole profession. This is appalling!

I'm against the harassment of prostitutes. Unless they are actually interfering with people's movements, they have a perfect right to be doing what they're doing."

 

My own .02, whoever Stickman is he's entitled to his opinion, just... keep it off my wave.

[cavanami]

Let's go back a few thousands years and as the Bible says:

 

"It is better to cast your seed in the belly of a whore than to spill it on the ground." Gen. 38:8 or near here. (This is not to say that the Bible backs prostitution, but that it did exist at that time).

 

It seems that prostitution has always been with mankind.

 

Should it be made illegal? Most likely I would answer no, but would say that it should be licensed, regulated, like they do in the Netherlands and Germany, for example.

 

Will women be abused? most likely, as women are abused in some marriages, some workplaces, etc.

 

Just a basic defect in the human race

 

Would I approve of my sister being a prostitute, no, but I come from a non-Thai culture so it is difficult to understand how some Thais can end their daughters/sisters off to be prostitutes.

I use Thailand as an example as that is what Stick wrote about and where I live.

 

I agree with what Stick wrote and would really have to go thru his column in detail to pull out thing(s) that I do not agree with.

[dave32]

The topic of prostitution is always rife with social stigmas and cultural biases. Hard to get away from those.

 

You know what I would like to see: A detailed scholarly work on prostitution.

 

For me it comes down to this: There is no signficant evidence that this is a harmful or self-destructive activity beyond personal anecdotes of people criticizing it (and usually elevating themselves to the position of moral martyr [not talking about you or Stickman there]).

 

I do not want to live in a nanny environment, and I think it's sad that the US still exercises that sort of puritanical control over personal expression between adults.

 

If I had a daughter, there would be a lot of things I didn't want her to do --> like go to Pat Robertson's church. But I still wouldn't want the creation of a moral police environment where those decisions are made for you.