RedMagic1 -> RE: Confused, in too fast with ProDomme? (9/30/2008 4:52:58 PM)
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There seem to be a lot of rose-colored glasses regarding Thai prostitution. I'll ignore the sex workers in Thailand who are (1) male and (2) under the age of 18, and just deal with women who are of the age of majority. They are not "unionized," as one poster put it. There are, however, several support groups for female prostitutes. A quote from the Wikipedia article on Thai prostitution: "Several support organizations for sex workers exist in Thailand. Most of them attempt to discourage women from taking up or continuing the trade." Like other places in the world, the legal prostitutes in Thailand have higher rates of drug use, venereal disease, and suicide than the general population. One source is here: http://www.links.net/vita/swat/course/prosthai.html It is also worth noting that many foreign men who marry or cohabit with prostitutes end up being killed by them? Why? Foreigners cannot own property in Thailand. The same Wikipedia article says that more Britons are killed in Thailand each year than perhaps any other country in the world. MsCFromMelbourne, while I completely agree with you that United States laws regarding sex workers totally suck, Australia ain't so hot either. The laws vary from state to state, and sexworkers in Queensland for example are very restricted by the STATE laws there. Federal law is essentially silent on sex workers except within the territories, sex workers also have to run the gauntlet of planning permission from local government. I don't see any reason to play holier-than-thou here. The reality is that prostitutes get a raw deal pretty much anywhere in the world. An offhand remark to a non-responding OP about moving to Thailand has gotten blown all out of proportion.
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