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How Come So Many Climate Change Deniers Also Perverts Who Are Crazy About Sex Tourism In Thailand?

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Thailand: The World’s Sex Tourism Capital
Pulitzer Center Pulitzer Center.
Deena Guzder, reporting for the Pulitzer Center

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BANGKOK, Thailand —Imagine standing naked under
flashing lava-red disco lights and gyrating to blaring techno
music before dropping to the ground, splaying your legs like a
starfish, and using your pelvic muscles to pop a dozen
ping-pong balls out of your vagina for the amusement of giddy,
affluent, and intoxicated foreigners. Now imagine shoving live
turtles into your vagina and dancing around a pole before
ejecting the turtles into an aquarium (“Wow, the turtles can
still swim!”)  Imagine repeating the same act with, say, a 
large frog or bagful of goldfish. Welcome to Bangkok,
Thailand’s Red Light District.

Unlike brothels or strip clubs, “Ping
Pong Shows” do not lure clients through
promises of sexual arousal, but promises of sexual perversion
if not sexual torture.  They offer freak shows where women’s
bodies are reduced to grotesque objects exploited for tourists’
entertainment. 

Thai women who have lost their jobs
in villages during the economic downturn often travel to cities
such as Bangkok for work and are hired not as sex entertainers,
but circus animals. One older woman with a scar across her
belly from a c-section confides after her performance at a Ping
Pong Show, “I don’t like being here, I feel dirty.” She adds,
“I left my village when my factory closed.”  Nobody knows when,
exactly, Ping-Pong Shows began, but they’re increasingly
raunchy and dangerous as tourists’ threshold for shock
increases. One Bangkok organization, EMPOWER, even instructed
women in bar prostitution how to insert and pull out razor
blades from their vaginas, according to Melissa Farley,
Executive Director of Prostitution Research & Education. “This
is understood to be a job requirement in the bar-show setting
where tricks are sexually excited by the possibility of the
genital mutilation of Thai women,” notes Farley. 

The vast economic disparities between Thai locals and
Thailand’s tourists have long enabled affluent foreigners to
request massages with “happy ending specials” or “rent a
girlfriend/boyfriend” for a holiday. Now, the global economic
crisis has spawned new, dangerous ways of objectifying, 
commoditizing, and demeaning women. Thailand’s sex tourism
industry is more risqué, less regulated, and more dangerous
than ever before.

Thailand’s
tagline is “Land of Smiles,” a beach
paradise full of lithe coconut trees lazily swaying under a
lapis lazuli sky.  But, who’s smiling and who’s
wincing in pain? This is a story of destitute Asian women
subjecting themselves to extreme degradation for the guffaws of
affluent Western benefactors. This is a story where the messy
intersection of class, race and sexuality are taken to their
disturbing logical extremes.  Behind the brothels posing as
massage parlors and strip clubs is a painful story involving
women trafficked from Burma, minors exploited by pimps, and a
global economic disparities that forces women to sell their
bodies. 

While many variations of Ping Pong
Shows exist around the world, the prevalence of such shows
across Thailand—a tourism hotspot for Westerners—makes this
story especially worthy of exposure.  North Americans comprise
25% of sex tourists in the world and are directly complicit in
economically supporting this industry—an industry that often
involves prepubescent girls—so this story is largely about our
own responsibility. 

Thailand is often called “Disneyland for
pedophiles” and has up to 600,000 AIDS cases. The huge
sex-for-sale industry is driven mostly by Australian, European,
and American tourists. The number of prostitutes in Thailand
ranges from 800,000 to 2 million of which 20% are 18 or
younger. U.S. citizens traveling abroad to exploit minors can
be held responsible under U.S. laws; however, neither U.S. laws
nor international human rights declarations address the
culpability of tourists engaging in sexual voyeurism and
exploitation of women in the so-called Land of Smiles.  

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