Sexual Exploitation in Bangkok
Sex tourism in Thailand can trace its roots to American troops on leave in the country during the Vietnam War. Today, it is part of a rapidly growing sex industry that includes prostitution, pornography, bars, brothels and human trafficking.
8 min readAug 26, 2019
“HIV! HIV! Go fuck yourself!” she said, and then I woke up. Or maybe it wasn’t that way at all. Maybe a whore outside my door was cursing her punter, and I wasn’t actually dreaming.
“Why you don’t want condom? Fuck you! I don’t like you.”
“Fuck you too,” said an English male voice. “l don’t like either of you. Fuck off! Go on. Get out!”
“Across the hallway, a door slammed shut, and two Thai working girls continued their cursing. “You got no Willy. You got no Willy…he-he-he… “
“Fuck you too! HIV! HIV!”
I must have fallen back to sleep because the phone rang and woke me up. It was around 10 am, and for a moment, I had to think about where I was since I wasn’t used to a telephone being so close to my bed. I wasn’t going to answer it. A sudden urge to…
