Sex in Thailand

Glenallen resident returns from Thailand after helping victims of human …
Southeast Missourian
Sex trafficking has been called one of the most disturbing global crimes, specifically in the Asia-Pacific area. The industry in Thailand thrives as a $150 billion business each year, dating back to the Vietnam War when Thailand basically became a …

Sex workers rescued from 'fortress' brothel
AsiaOne
It also had a cramped air-conditioned room to hide its sex workers whenever the authorities raided the premises. On Saturday, a police team from the Anti-Trafficking in Person Unit busted the brothel's operations and detained 10 people, including five …

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Identity of child sex tour operator revealed
3News NZ
Wales planned to have sex with young boys and make a business out of it in Thailand. He set up a website to attract business but his first client was an undercover police officer wearing a wire. Wales was arrested in 2010 in an operation dubbed …

Schmidt helps human trafficking victims in Thailand
The Sheboygan Press
Sheboygan's Hope Schmidt, 18, a December graduate of IDEAS Academy, recently returned from three weeks of public service work in Thailand. Schmidt worked with the Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities (DEPDC), whose founder, …

Slavery continues as problem in many societies
El Dorado Times
From eastern Europe to Thailand to Cambodia, young women in impoverished conditions are exploited in the sex trade. Sometimes these women are forced to work as prostitutes in their own cities and villages. Others are taken halfway across the world and …

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Movie seeks to raise awareness
AugustaGazette.com
From eastern Europe to Thailand to Cambodia, young women in impoverished conditions are exploited in the sex trade. Sometimes these women are forced to work as prostitutes in their own cities and villages. Others are taken halfway across the world and …

Fake sex pills seized from Abu Dhabi shops
Emirates 24/7
The counterfeit drugs that came under labels like Vigrx, Maxman, CowLonglast etc. were mainly imported from countries like China, India and Thailand. A senior official told this website that the drugs sold over the counter (OTC) were found to have …

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Book Review: A Thai Prostitute's Depressing Story
Asia Sentinel
Bamboo Sinfonia Pulications, Bangkok, Thailand. ISBN 978-974-8418-01-8. Paperback, Available through Amazon For anybody who has ever been in a Bangkok girlie bar, what the smiling and giggling women in their spangles and bare skin have given up to get …

SIN PRODUCTS
Manila Bulletin
In the late 1980s, Thailand and the Philippines had roughly the same number of HIV/AIDs at 112 and 135, respectively. In the early 1990s, the government of Thailand enforced the 100% Condom Use program in its booming commercial sex industry while the …

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Honolulu residents headed to Thailand to save children from human trafficking
KHON2
Pace says many of these kids, age 5 to 18, are from Thailand, Burma, Laos and Cambodia, but are considered stateless children. Because of this they are at risk of being forced into human trafficking. "That can be slavery in the sex trade industry, …