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Behind the cross-border buying of sex, the globalization of sexual consumption, and the soaring GDP of major tourist countries is the expansion of the sex industry and the enslavement of women.
Sex capitals are everywhere in the world, prostitution, escorts, renting wives, filming, and spending in a variety of ways, with red light districts often attracting tourists and women being beautiful business tools.
But there is always a force that tries to hold up the fate of women in the mire and stop them from slipping.
But does that work?
Tyrande, it's actually the back garden of the white man?
In March this year, China and Thailand opened an era of mutual visa exemption.
Open the domestic social media, there is a feeling that "people from all over China have traveled to Thailand".
Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya......
With its island style, relaxed pace and low prices, Tyrande attracts a steady stream of tourists.
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According to Thai data, an estimated 8 million Chinese tourists will travel in 2024.
However, in addition to the amazing exclamation of the food and beauty, some surprised voices also emerged, which was the B-side of Thailand's spectacle and customs, which gave the Chinese some small shocks.
Near Bangkok, there is a small island called Pattaya, where white men and local women can be seen everywhere, sunbathing, watching erotic performances, and talking and behaving intimately.
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Often, these white males are middle-aged and elderly, while the local females are diverse.
Many posts on the Internet, doubtful asking:
"Why are so many white men and Thai women walking together?"
Someone deftly responded: "They're not a couple, they're not a one-night stand, they're an employment relationship." ”
Yes, in Thailand, you can rent the services of "girlfriends" and "wives" for money, and they will accompany and listen, do laundry, and take care of them like real partners.
Pattaya, as a result, has become internationally known as the "White Man's Back Garden".
The sex industry is particularly well developed here.
The so-called Pattaya Walking Street is the famous red light district, and the smell of alcohol and marijuana fills the narrow streets.
The streets are lined with colorful signboards, and countless women in cool clothes line up to welcome customers.
Source: YouTube
An urban legend is that if you enter a bar and take a fancy to girls, you can use less money to bring them back to the hotel.
There is also a theory that bar girls are different from the traditional sex industry, they have the ability to choose on their own, also known as "freelancing".
The reason behind this absurd claim is that organized sex trafficking is illegal in Thailand, and the subtext is that the law welcomes all sex trafficking with "individual consensual" signs.
On the streets of the red light district, there are also many interactive games. The girls sit in the rudimentary machines, waiting for the guests.
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If people buy throwing balls and hit them in the designated spot, the girls fall into the water, triggering a chain reaction of wetting, frightening, screaming, etc.
As long as you spend money, you can play the world and manipulate other people's bodies.
Blogger @黄legintestine shares what he has seen in Pattaya, Sina Weibo
Pattaya doesn't stop there.
Erotic shows are the main signboards of countless tourism organizations.
Social media searches for Pattaya, and many raiders shout: "Adult shows are a must-see." ”
Everyone was speechless, and was only willing to throw out some keywords "bowling, genital drumming, large-scale, 99% Asian audience".
Human beings are like circus animals, constantly performing the limits of the body, the possibilities of intimacy, on stage, and most of the behaviors are achieved by modifying the body with drugs.
This is a deformed consumption in the name of curiosity.
Source: Sina Weibo
Pattaya has a long history of eroticism, and this small fishing village has embarked on the road of "world capital" because of war and colonization.
But this phenomenon has never been limited to Pattaya.
Bangkok, Phuket...... Most of Thailand's popular cities have famous erotic shows, and it is relatively easy to buy "sexual services", and these have become an essential check-in item for many tourists in their "Thailand travel guide".
It can be said that the tourism industry in Tyrande is based on this kind of pornographic propaganda.
Making a living through sexual services has become a reality of life for many people.
The situation of women has deteriorated in general.
For example, the growing culture of renting wives.
Source: TikTok
The old white men eat exchange rate dividends and take their pensions to Thailand to spend their old age.
The Thai wife not only provides sexual value and emotional value, but also a variety of functions such as caregiver, translator, and nanny. Such a wife can be obtained at a price of about 2,000 yuan per month.
Meeting a white man in Thailand is as simple as breathing, how can it not be considered a kind of colonization in the new era?
There are many female workers in the sex industry, there are frequent outbreaks of HIV/AIDS, child sexual abuse is a serious problem, and human trafficking crimes are emerging one after another.
Behind the high development of the sex industry and the large proportion of tourism revenue, there is a real exploitation of a part of human beings.
Most of the time, these events do not affect tourists, but rather become a reason for more and more people to go to see them.
Sex tourism is globalising
Thailand is not the only country on this ride.
Worldwide, many countries and regions regard the sex industry as a signboard for tourism, and there is even a term:
Sex tourism.
It refers to tourism that is premised on engaging in sexual activity or sexual relations.
It is a multi-billion dollar industry commonly known as "buying spring tuan".
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Most of the customers of sex tourism come from developed countries in the West, and the destinations are mainly concentrated in countries and regions with underdeveloped economies or where the sex trade is legal.
Southeast Asia is the hardest hit region.
In addition to the proliferation of the sex industry, there is also the "Yellow Fever" – not a real disease, which refers to the stereotypical fascination of Western white men with Asian women.
Angeles City is a sex tourism center in the Philippines, and many girls are abducted by traffickers to Angel City to pick up customers from their teenage age.
A documentary about sex tourism in the Philippines
Most of the children here have different skin colors, because they are the traces left by sex tourists.
During the pandemic, many Filipino parents chose to voluntarily send their minor children into the sex industry due to financial pressures. The United Nations has considered the Philippines to be "the global hub for live-streamed sexual abuse trafficking."
However, it is worth mentioning that in fact, sex trafficking is illegal in Philippine law, but as in Thailand, the promotion of sex tourism is encouraged in practice.
In 2018, the Philippine president visited India, saying:
"Virginity is a highlight of tourism. ”
Source: Internet
In Europe, there are also sex trade paradises such as Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.
De Wallen is Amsterdam's largest and most prestigious red light district, and a major tourist attraction, it is famous for its sex shops, sex theaters, and sex museums. But the most striking thing is the reddish shop windows on the side of the street-
Women who can provide sexual services are displayed.
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The red light district tour is the most popular check-in spot.
In Italy, the sex trade is also prevalent. According to a 2009 TAMPEP report, up to 90% of women in Italy who work in sexual services are foreigners. Human trafficking has been a controversy for a long time.
The Czech Republic is known as the "Thailand of Europe", and the capital, Prague, is known as the erotic capital. This AV country has played "sex tourism" with a new trick, and has launched a check-in project for tourists to pay to watch AV shooting.
Endless erotic solicitation.
Almost all countries with red light districts, their sex industry is an attraction.
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In some places, it is even famous for being a "young prostitute".
According to some data, another 250,000 to 500,000 children in Brazil live on the sex trade.
图源:Lund University
International tourism has become the most profitable pimp.
And how did women become sexual signboards in the tourism industry?
Looking back on this process is like boiling a frog in warm water.
For example, the world beauty contest promotes the public's stereotype of women in a certain country, xx country is rich in beauties, marries Ukrainian wives, Vietnamese brides, and looks at Japanese docile Lori......
Society genders women on a daily basis, promotes pornography, performances, and sells female fantasies, and consumers gain psychological and moral immunity in strange countries.
All kinds of links are indispensable.
Profit and hypocrisy have ultimately reduced women to consumer goods for sex tourism, embedded in the sex industry of global tourism.
But it's always been that way, right?
Stop women's fortunes from slipping
All over the world, all over the world.
Vietnamese women are trafficked to Paris to pick up customers, and Romanian women show off their bodies in Amsterdam's red-light district.
The global tourism industry has taken advantage of the sexual thrill, while women who sacrifice their bodies have been declining.
This seems to be an evil of inertia that has been around for a long time and cannot be reversed, after all, it is always said that prostitution is one of the oldest professions in the world.
Source: "Ten Days of Sex Workers"
But history has taught us that women's fate on this road is not the only possibility of slipping.
In France, for example, in 2013, a draft law was passed to punish clients of prostitutes and save sex workers.
The call for the draft is the Minister for Women's Rights Belcassan, who wants to eradicate the sex trade industry in France, "I don't want a society where women can be priced".
In 2016, France passed a bill to "punish prostitution without punishing prostitution".
Since then, clients caught for the first time will be fined 1,500 euros and forced to go through an education class to find out the real situation of sex workers.
Sex workers are considered witnesses, not offenders.
Source: "Girl on the Street"
Because the French government knows that 85% of them are victims of global human trafficking.
Legislator Olivier pointed out: "Prostitutes should be made aware that what they do leads to prostitution." ”
Without clients, there would be no sex workers, and there would be no generations of women who have repeatedly stepped into this quagmire.
France is not alone in tightening the sex trade industry in order to improve the situation of women or to create a new image of tourism.
Even Thailand, known for its sex industry, proposed abolishing the sex industry in 2016.
At that time, Thailand's first female tourism minister, Wattana Langkorn, proposed to reshape Pattaya and replace pornography with water sports.
Source: "Girl on the Street"
She also publicly stated:
"Hopefully, Thailand tourism is a really good quality tour, and we don't want to be associated with pornography anymore. Tourists should come for the wonderful culture of Thailand, not the sex industry. ”
Of course, it's up to Iceland to stop women from slipping into the sex industry.
Iceland was the first country to ban striptease dancing because of feminism.
In 2010, Iceland passed a law to close all strip clubs with an overwhelming majority of 0 votes against and 2 abstentions.
At the same time, the law also prohibits any commercial activity from profiting from the nudity of employees.
Iceland's first female prime minister: Sigurzadotti
Earlier, in the 80s, Icelandic women had already taken a step forward.
The dominant elite men at the time also wanted to use beauty pageants to create an international image of Icelandic beauties, making them a commercial tool to attract male tourists in order to boost tourism and the economy.
But feminists in Iceland are committed to mocking beauty pageants.
They publicly crowned a cow and held a mock public auction of women until 100 feminists collectively nominated themselves Miss Iceland......
With all this deconstruction and disenchantment, sure enough, the public's interest in the Miss Iceland election has been declining.
Icelandic women are difficult to objectify and sexualize, and there are many sisters who are preventing them from sliding into the abyss.
And China's efforts to halt women's declining fortunes began much earlier than in many countries where sex trafficking is currently legal.
Source: "Sisters and Sisters Stand Up"
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the prostitution industry began to be eliminated throughout the country.
The government has institutionalized sex workers, helped them with medical check-ups, treated sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), recovered from drugs, and taught them work skills so that they can break free from their past and reintegrate into society and start a new life.
Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shanghai...... One brothel after another was permanently closed.
It was not until 1958 that the prostitution industry, which had legally existed in China for thousands of years, was declared to be eliminated.
Source: "Sisters and Sisters Stand Up"
Now, it's a different story.
Related scandals have been repeatedly searched, and the public's perception of prostitution is mostly clear-
Prostitution is illegal, and public figures who are involved in prostitution will directly die for life, and there is no such person.
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As it says in The Sex of Slavery: "The essence of prostitution is not trade, but slavery." ”
Even though the sex industry has helped so many countries in the world achieve GDP growth, and even become a pillar industry.
Even there are so many high-sounding reasons for urging the legalization of the sex industry: to protect the rights of sex workers and to support bodily freedom......
Even if countless people say that it is your willingness, there is no oppression under the willingness.
But in the thriving sex industry and tourism, behind the satisfaction of prostitutes, enslaved women cannot and should not be erased.
France has enacted a new law to ban the sex industry in Iceland, and China has always ruled that sex trafficking is illegal.
When there are more and more forces pushing women out of the industry, the so-called evil of inertia will one day be reversed.
Women cannot carve out a future in slavery.
Thinking with our brains and working with our hands, we can build our own home.
Source: "She is the most beautiful when she is angry"
Some references:
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Feminism in International Politics
The red light districts of the West simply "can't stand";
作者 - even、hikari
(Excerpted from the WeChat public account of her magazine)