Thai boy sex workers
Above: N. The sex trade has offered good-paying jobs for many people from rural areas who were facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots. Allison Joyce for NPR hide caption. Mos, 26, was a "moneyboy" — a sex worker — at a gay bar in the Thai tourist hub of Pattaya. For him, it was a dream come true.


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A plague in prostitution: HIV and AIDS in Thailand




Child prostitution in Thailand - Wikipedia
Prostitution in Thailand is not in itself illegal , but many of the activities associated with it are illegal. Because of police corruption and an economic reliance on prostitution dating back to the Vietnam War, it remains a significant presence in the country. Prostitutes mostly come from the northeastern Isan region of Thailand, from ethnic minorities or from neighbouring countries, especially Myanmar and Laos. Under the act, the definition of "prostitution" is "Sexual intercourse, or any other act, or the commission of any other act in order to gratify the sexual desire of another person in a promiscuous manner in return for money or any other benefit, irrespective of whether the person who accepts the act and the person who commits the act are of the same sex or not. Under the act, persons who solicit sex " Persons associating in a "prostitution establishment" with another person for the purpose of prostitution faces a jail term or a fine or both.



Child prostitution in Thailand
Thailand is a centre for child sex tourism and child prostitution. Sexual exploitation of children and women in Thailand dates back many centuries. During the Ayutthaya period from to , women were circulated amongst men as concubines or treated as spoils of war given to soldiers as rewards.





A group of women sit around a table making dreamcatchers with colourful bits of yarn, chatting about their families, work and the thick smog enveloping Chiang Mai city in northern Thailand. Just another workplace scene, except the women are all sex workers who meet their clients at Can Do Bar, which they own as a collective, benefitting from health insurance, fixed hours and time off — which are typically denied to sex workers. Thousands of Thai and migrant sex workers have learned from Empower to negotiate with bar and massage parlour owners for better conditions, and to lobby the government to decriminalise their work to improve their incomes, safety and well-being. Millions of women across the world choose sex work to make an income. Yet only a few countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, Senegal and Peru, recognise it as legal, leaving prostitutes elsewhere vulnerable to abuse.

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