A Day in the Life of a Thai Sex Trade Worker

It's not often that we see a mainstream news source tell the truth about prostitution. More often then not we hear them bleating about how we should make it legal, so the girls can be examined by doctors, and so the government can tax the industry...ad nauseum. Even if it was legal, what good would the doctor's exam do them, once they had contracted a disease like AIDS? And given the nature of the business, the wormn would be taxed by government, and the pimps would still find a way to squeeze them more. But I digress.

Here, though, the BBC has written an article from a former Thai Prostitute's perspective, and she speaks quite frankly about treated as an object, the humiliation and the desperation that causes it.

We learn about how she was gradually lured into it and how she got out. There is no glamour. Only shame. It is also revealing that once she got ouf it, she was clear that though the money was better as a prostitute, she is much better off now.

Prostitution is exploitation of women. No one gets into it by free choice. The pimps recruit the girls when they're down and out. There is almost always drugs & alcohol involved, after all who could do that sort of thing straight?

Pimps, should be locked up, and the key thrown away (Dangerous offenders). For human excrement like that, it should be one strike,and you're out.

Johns should be "outed" and fined.If they were to share in the humiliation of the whole deal, perhaps they will find the strength to resist temptation.

If more men would just think about their own sisters and daughters, and ask themselves if they would want drunk horny men all over them, and if they knew how little the women like it... and consequently them, maybe they'd think twice.