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Everyone has something to say about sex tourism in Thailand—but few know what they are talking about. Which is not to say that this post is meant to scold, or comes from a place to puritanism. I did not particularly enjoy the gaggle of and something men festering on all floors of the mall. During my first year of so living in Bangkok , I was mostly able to ignore these men, even the ones whose eyes wandered to me in the absence of young Thai men and women for them to ogle. However, when I began to see sex tourists in my own soi often with local people decades their junior following them like puppies or even in the elevator of my own building, the proximity became far too close for comfort. Prostitution in Thailand is a loaded topic of discussion for more reasons than I can address in this post.

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Mos, 26, was a "moneyboy" — a sex worker — at a gay bar in the Thai tourist hub of Pattaya.

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For him, it was a dream come true. Now the pandemic has put his dream on hold. Mos grew up in a poor province on Thailand's northeastern border, eating fish from the river and leaves foraged from the forest.

He wanted to eat pork and pizza. When he graduated from high school, he moved to Pattaya and became a sex worker.

He says the job was fun, and the pay was great. He saved up enough money to build a cement house for his family in the countryside.

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He promised his younger siblings he would send them to college. Indeed, for people in rural, landlocked provinces, Thailand's tourist hubs offered good-paying jobs for those otherwise facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots — the lives they grew up with and their parents still toiled in. Mos is one of an estimatedto more Sex Tourism in Thailand 1 million sex workers in Thailand, including full-time sex workers affiliated with bars, freelancers supplementing their regular income with occasional prostitution and migrants from bordering countries. Sex work is practiced openly in the country, but it is illegal and subject to fines or, in rare cases, imprisonment.

About 24, people were arrested, fined or prosecuted inaccording to the Royal Thai Police.

Mos and many of the people we interviewed for this article asked that Sex Tourism in Thailand full names not be used. In many parts of Thailand, the family name has been shamed by association with a stigmatized, illegal business, and individuals have been disowned by their families or ostracized by their community.

Working in the bars of the red-light district pays more than many office jobs or other service work that the women and men in Thailand's sex industry would otherwise qualify for. Sex work has allowed them to save money, buy themselves luxuries and support their parents and grandparents in retirements of ease.]