Despite Prostitution Being Banned, This Is How Streets in This Country Look at Night

Posted on 20 July 2016. Tags: banned, being, country, Despite, look, night, prostitution, streets, this

Thailand’s infamous sex industry is once again in the news. This time, it’s making headlines because the country’s first women tourism minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul push to eradicate ubiquitous brothels.
 
"Tourists don't come to Thailand for such a thing. They come here for our beautiful culture. We want Thailand to be about quality tourism. We want the sex industry gone," Kobkarn said.
 
In this series, the police is conducting raids on some of the largest establishments providing sex services in Bangkok and over 100 sex workers have been arrested.
 
Let us tell you that prostitution is illegal in Thailand, and has been for close to 70 years. Despite this, the country is home to a large sex trade and people invariably ignore the law. It is considered to be the hub of the sex trade in southeast Asia.
 
Pattaya is considered to be one of the country’s tourism hotspot. The place has over 1000 bars and massage parlours which run brothels.
 
There are about 123,530 sex workers in Thailand, according to a 2014 UNAIDS report, compared with 37,000 sex workers in neighboring Cambodia. However, Havocscope – which tracks the global black market – puts the figure close to 250,000.
 
Thailand's minimum wage is 300 baht ($ 8.59 or Rs 570) a day. Sex workers earn about 1,200 baht ($ 34 or 2200) for street prostitutes and $ 85 or Rs 5700 for go-go girls (sex worker who visit’s at customer’s place) per transaction.
 
But you won’t believe that this infamous sex industry contributes nearly 10 percent of the GDP. According to economists, the move will seriously dent the economy of Thailand.
 
Thailand is not the only country which is taking such kinds of step to get rid of its sex industry. Islamic country Indonesia is also taking stern actions against brothels.
 
It aims to shut down all of the country's red-light districts by 2019 in a bid to eradicate prostitution in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation 
 
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