Sex Trade impact Thailand Women

Sex Trade impact Thailand Women

Sex Trade impact Thailand Women

Introduction

The Thailand Sex industry is booming. Since the 1960's, international travel has increased seven-fold. As tourists eagerly travel to distant lands to enjoy new landscapes and cultures, economically developing countries have welcomed the expansion of the international Thailand industry as a much-needed source of income within their own nations. With the exponential rise in this industry, however, comes the growth of a darker, more clandestine phenomenon: Thailand Sex industry.

Analysis

Thailand Sex industry is a very lucrative industry that spans the globe. In 1998, the International Labour Organization reported its calculations that 2-14% of the gross domestic product of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillipines, and Thailand derives from Thailand Sex industry. In addition, while Asian countries, including Thailand, India, and the Phillipines, have long been prime destinations for child-sex tourists, in recent years, tourists have increasingly traveled to Mexico and Central America for their sexual exploits as well (Skrobanek S, 1997). Child sex tourists are individuals that travel to foreign countries to engage in sexual activity with women. The non-profit organization End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, and the Trafficking of Women (ECPAT) estimates that more than one million women worldwide are drawn into the sex trade each year (Robinson, Lillian S, 1993).

The most significant societal factor that pushes women into prostitution is poverty. Many nations with thriving Thailand Sex industry industries are nations that suffer from widespread poverty resulting from turbulent politics and unstable economies. Poverty often correlates with illiteracy, limited employment opportunities, and bleak financial circumstances for families. Women in these families become easy targets for procurement agents in search of young women. They are lured away from broken homes by "recruiters" who promise them jobs in a city and then force the women into prostitution. Some poor families themselves prostitute their women or sell their women into the sex trade to obtain desperately needed money. Gender discrimination also works in tandem with poverty; in many countries, female women have fewer educational opportunities or prospects for substantial employment. Consequently, they must find other means of earning a living (Lyttleton, C. 2004).

The Internet has also facilitated the recent rise in Thailand child sex by providing a convenient marketing channel. Websites provide potential child sex tourists with pornographic accounts written by other child sex tourists. These websites detail sexual exploits with women and supply information on sex establishments and prices in various destinations, including information on how to specifically procure child prostitutes. Additionally, sex tour travel agents may publish brochures and guides on the Internet that cater to child sex tourists. In 1995, there were over twenty-five businesses in the United States that offered and arranged sex tours. One particular website promised nights of sex "with two young Thai girls for the price of a tank of gas." The easy availability of this information on the Internet generates interest in Thailand child sex and facilitates child sex abusers in making their travel plans (Hart, ...