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[Vicissitude]

A.) I wonder if Dave's wife and/or children read this type of stuff on here. I hope not.

B.) I've spent enough time in Thailand and know enough Thais, expats and long-term residents to call the place my "home away from home." That being said, there are just a few points I'd like to make here:
1.) Thai people who are involved in the sex tourism industry in Thailand are considered to be of the lowest class there is in Thailand regardless of how much money they make. I see the dirty looks they get everywhere they go. So if you decide to pick up one of those bar girls and go out with her, take a real close look at the people around you and you can see for yourself. You say most people don't know. Think again..... "Thai people know."
2.) "One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble. Can't be too careful with your company. I feel the devil walking next to me." There's a reason why this song was made. I could go into graffic details here but I don't want anyone to have nightmares. Let me just say that if you get yourself wrapped up with the wrong company in Thailand, there's a real good chance that you could end up penniless, drugged and even dead or worse. The police will not touch your case because it's high risk for them to get involved. Some of them regularly take bribes for all crime related matters. It's no secret that you can buy anything you want in Thailand (for a price).
3.) It's a myth that "go go girls" are "rich." It's the mamasans who are the rich old broads. It goes like this:
a.) Mamasan has 6-10 girls working for her or more if she's really good.
b.) Mamasan collects 500 baht as a bar fine from every Farang who decides to pay that price for the flesh he sees on the stage.
c.) Mamasan collects the girl from off the stage and disappears to the back of the club. Then she calls for the Farang to come with her so they can negotiate the price. They also make him drop his pants to visually inspect whether or not he has any noticable STDs. The deal is made, he pays for his tab and off they go to his hotel room.
d.) Mamasan tells the girl she needs to get as much money as possible from him and high tail her ass back to pick up another Farang or two.
e.) Mamasan reminds her girl about the commission they agreed upon and expects it as soon as she returns back to the club.
f.) Prostitute makes her way with the farang back to the hotel and does her dirty deed for about a half hour to an hour and then demands her 2,000 baht give or take. OR somewhere in between she gets the idea that it would be really cool to mix in some sweet intoxication with his Ovaltine. He wakes up the next day with a bad headache and his money, credit cards etc. are all gone. He doesn't remember what happened.
g.) Prostitute makes her way back to the club with money in hand for her dear mamasan who pimps her out to the next farang and the next that night.

NOW, do the math for the mamasan. On a good night, a mamasan could easily clear 10,000 baht or more. That's not bad!

[Hollywoodaction]

Saying that prostitution supports the economy misses the point that if the money was not spent on hookers, it would be spent on something else.

[MissSeoul]

[jinju]

Thailand is a beautiful country. Yes.

The "Thai Smile" may be warm and friendly, but dont confuse it with genuine. They want something from you: your money, mullah, dineros, greenbacks. Thats all farangs are good for to them. if you are careful, it can be a fun place.

[stevemcgarrett]

jinju:

I agree with you again. Thais are known for their smiles and patience but many are liars in business. My wife and I were tricked by two different hotel staff over various concerns involving money and two different street merchants. The lying was brazen and greed the motivating factor. It didn't square well with us, and she's Asian herself.

When it comes to doing business, I don't trust Asians at all. And my complaint goes well beyond the issue of bartering or not. Been there, seen that, and done that too many times to be just dismissed as anecdotal or bigoted.

But it galls me when Thais are held on a pedestal in this regard as with lauding Koreans for being polite. I want to immediately retort: it depends on the situation. I cannot count the number of times, for example, that Koreans have hung up the phone without saying goodbye or brushed up against me in UNcrowded situatons without saying excuse me. To some extent, of course, this is culturally relative and the second example can be explained by proxemics.

[happeningthang]

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[stevemcgarrett]

happeningthang:

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[jajdude]

http://www.avert.org/aidsthai.htm

Thailand Statistics
Estimated total population, July 2005 64,233,000
Estimated number of people living with HIV, end 2005 580,000
Adults (15+) 560,000
Women (15+) 220,000
Children (0-15) 16,000
Estimated adult HIV prevalence 1.4%
Estimated number of AIDS deaths in 2005 21,000

The majority of Thailand’s HIV infections (around 80%) occur through heterosexual sex.
HIV affects more men than women in Thailand; the male-female ratio is nearly 3:1.
HIV prevalence among pregnant women, which reached a peak of 2.35% in 1995, had fallen to 1.18% by 2003.
The distribution of antiretroviral drugs has coincided with a dramatic drop in the number of officially reported AIDS-deaths – from 5,020 in 2004 to 1,640 in 2005.

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