True Story: Prostitution in Thailand
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Posted in Thailand by Jessica Edquist on 11/11/2008
how to describe this place. Dirty, oppressive, perverted, and just flat
out evil have all come to mind. Pattaya, Thailand, a beautiful coastal
city, is completely infiltrated with sex tourists. Never heard of this
phrase before? Ya, me neither…until coming to Asia. Simply put, this
city thrives on foreign men coming here to seek pleasure from young
Thai women.
things I have ever done. There is a constant urge inside of me to grab
hold of each one of these men, holding the hand of a young prostitute,
and just SHAKE them. I want to ask them WHY? WHY take the LIFE out of
these girls? WHY are you not home with your wife and children? WHY pay
to use some one else’s body?
age has evoked a feeling inside me that I have NEVER felt
before…complete and utter DISGUST. Being here just makes you
nauseous. There is no escape from it in this place. We walk out of our
hotel room to see “Lady boys” with their clients. Even sitting here at
Starbucks right now, a usual safe haven, I am surrounded by beautiful
Thai women and their MUCH older “clients.”
doubt, but a feeling of pity has crept in as well. I PITY these men and
what they are searching for. Don’t get me wrong, MANY of these guys are
here to seek quick pleasure, but there is also a population here that
is LONELY and searching for companionship. They are turned down by
women in their own country, so they travel thousands of miles to
Pattaya, where for a small price, they can feel loved and wanted, if
only for a short while.
hole in their heart and they fill it up with women they pay for. My
heart breaks not only for these women who think this is the only way to
survive, but also for the men who need much MORE than a prostitute can
ever fulfill.
The comment:
Your article shows a quick progression from
disgust to sympathy and I applaud you for that. I would like to offer
some further thoughts, if you have an open mind, for I have journeyed
through that part of the world and fallen for the charms of the
beautiful young ladies. I will be brutal for the sake of the truth.
Quite simply, the women are beautiful, both physically and in their
nature – soft, easy going, gentle, relaxed. These things are so often
missing in western, stressed, uptight women who men feel pressure them
all the time for status reasons – blam our materialistic society.
Second, sex. Men are biologically programmed to need it, regularly.
Frequently, theu don’t get it at home because of the vaues and
attitudes of their wives (programmed by society) and because of the
stressed life we all lead. Finally, age – what does it matter? Why is a
50 year old man with a 25 year old woman disgusting? Is it because she
is also a prostitute, or are men of that age not supposed to like sex?
And if they do still want sex but are not attracted to their 50 year
old wives, or the wife has basically turned off the sex channel, what
is he supposed to do? Because I can tell you, without sex many men
would become emotionally unstable. And supppose they were in love –
what would be a reasonable/unacceptable age difference? 5 years, 10
years … what does it really matter. Yes we are lonely, yes we are
physically driven by sex….. help.
