Thailand…
Pedophile and child sex
trafficking capital of the world!
- The trafficking of Thai females consists
mostly of 12-16 year olds from the North - The may sell a child as a virgin 3-4 times
- Both politicians and police support, indulge,
and profit from the prostitution industry - The turnover rate of this industry is around
US$ 4.3 billion per year - Prostitution is the largest cause of the
spread of AIDS in Thailand - There are more brothels than schools in
Thailand
night
Journal
Entry – May 22, 2010
“How do I feel? Hum…how do I
feel? I can’t even wrap my mind around what I feel. I feel overwhelmed. Trying
to get past the shock factor enough to put one foot in front of the other. I
walk beside the water heading to “Walking Street.” I can’t explain
the heaviness and weight I feel in my body. My lungs are having a harder time
taking in each breath. As I walk by the water I pass a prostitute. Then
another. Then another. Then hundreds more. The foreign men are everywhere.
Drowning in this environment that’s feeding the beast inside of them. They
proposition and yell at us, as if we are another prostitute on the street.
Everywhere I look I see them hand in hand with a Thai girl. She looks younger
than I want to guess. My heart hurts. I can’t walk 5 steps without being asked
to see a live sex show as a list of choices and positions are shoved in my
face. I pray as I walk, asking for courage. Where do I even start? We are
sitting in a go-go bar ordering diet cokes to qualify us as paying customers,
as highway to hell blares from the speakers. Dancers with numbers spin around
us as a British man befriends us. He proceeds to tell us how the girls don’t
want to be here. They have no money. They are all from poor farms, working to
support their families. This is life. Survival is the name of the game. In the
next bar I meet “Meow.” She came to Pettaya 3 months ago for work.
She’s from a farm. She “had no other choice,” her family needs money. Between our
conversations she beckons men over and offers to let me dance on her pole.
I bet we are bad for business. I feel like I’m in a modern day Sodom and
Gomorrah. I pray down feelings of hatred and anger towards these men. I ask
forgiveness for judging them. They need love and forgiveness just as much as I
do. How does a place like this exist? How do I go home and forget what I’ve
seen? Impossible.
…and then the bigger question, what am I
going to do about it?”
A
few short clips to give you a look at Pattaya…
