It is strange if you reflect on the article about massage with a happy ending. In Sweden it is legal for the girls to offers a happy ending and the story ends up on the front page. In Thailand it is illegal for the girl to offer a massage with a happy ending and nobody lifts and eye because it all around us. The only time the police is slightly interested is when a Russian or underage girl is involved.
There are no headlines in Thai newspapers everyday about Thai prostitution in Thailand, only when they committed a crime or when a crime is committed against them.
Not many Thai people are convicted for sex with children most of the pedophiles are foreigners but the black numbers are huge. People do not see it as a crime the same people in Europe do and many Thai girls lose their virginity to some older friend of the family.
In Sweden sex offenders have a forum dedicated to them where they are named and shamed but in Thailand it is very difficult to even report a rape with the Police they are not comfortable to talk about it. Hopefully this will change in the new future once will have Thai police woman in Thailand.
Thailand is mostly a Buddhist country and in the Buddhism belief prostitution is one of the worst sins ever bigger then alcohols. But you do not see the anti prostitution people gather every day same as they did when they tried to put a Thai beer on the stock market did you? Is it because it is so connected with the Thai culture with Mia Noi and other things or do people not even reflect on it or has it become so main stream?
