There are four great evil arts in Asia:
Chinese PS surgery
Plastic surgery in Korea
Japanese make-up
Transsexualism in Thailand
These four evil arts, with different genres and different strengths, all have the effect of turning decay into magic - to make ugliness nowhere to hide, and to add flowers to the cake!
And when it comes to Thai transsexualism, it has to be said that Thai shemales are more women than women.
Now, most people label Thailand as "shemale", and conversely, it can be said that shemale has a label called "Thailand".
However, behind any phenomenon, there is a certain necessity. After all, Pattaya's beautiful and sexy shemale will never be hot, so they will invariably wear women's clothes and scratch their heads on the stage.
What is it that makes this seemingly unusual phenomenon popular in Thailand and even become Thailand's business card in the world? In this issue, Xiao Xi will reveal the unknown side of the Thai shemale.
First, where does the impression of "shemale" come from?
Thai shemales are called "ladyboys" in English and "shemales" in Chinese.
Shemales are usually divided into three levels.
The first level, pure men dressed as women, completely physiological needs, did not do excision processing, called "shemale products";
The second level, long-term use of estrogen, has a male and female appearance, but is still "male" in nature, called "shemale semi-finished product";
The third level, sex reassignment surgery, becomes female from top to bottom, from appearance to essence, called "shemale finished product".
After all, a shemale is a man who desperately wants to be a woman.
But in fact, people are divided into three, six, and nine, and demons are divided into Thailand, India, and old Burma, and demons are not unique to Thailand.
The first Shemales originated in Singapore's red light district, Bugis Street.
In the 1960s and 1970s, shemales began to perform on "Bugis Street", attracting people from all over the world to hunt and even led to the development of local tourism.
At that time, Singapore's shemale industry had developed very maturely.
By the 1970s, Hong Kong and Taiwan began to take off, and Chinese tourists from both places also entered Southeast Asia.
At that time, people were very interested in the novel "shemale", and the word "shemale" also appeared frequently in the major newspapers and periodicals of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
For example, the earliest surviving Chinese information about "shemales" is the articles "Sin Chau Banshees" and "The Singaporean Shemales Who Are Difficult to Distinguish Between Male and Female" published in Taiwan's United Press in 1973.
In the early days, Singapore, like Thailand today, was once equated with the word shemale.
Therefore, the "shemale" in Chinese was first called the Singapore shemale by Hong Kong and Taiwan.
It wasn't until the 1980s that Singapore's prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, decided to "preserve the country's decent image" and ordered the banning of the demon industry.
Shemales can't stay in Singapore, so where to go?
At that time, among Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries did not have the environment and conditions to accept shemales.
Then only Thailand with "foundation" remains.
First of all, Thailand has a cultural soil suitable for the survival of shemales and a specific era background;
Secondly, the Thai government is also interested in replicating the "Singapore model" and developing the tourism industry.
As a result, the two sides hit it off, and Thailand gradually became a "demon gathering place".
In the 1990s, the rise of the Chinese mainland economy once again stimulated the prosperity of the shemale industry.
Countless good-looking demons have poured into Bangkok and Pattaya, creating large shemale shows such as Tiffany and Simon, and more and more tourists have come to hunt and watch and "interact intimately" with shemales.
It can be said that the shemale is not born for tourism, but the tourism industry gives the shemale the opportunity to appear.
It was then that shemales gradually became the label of Thailand in the minds of Chinese.
Second, why is there a "shemale" in Thailand?
Earlier we talked about why Thai shemales are so famous.
Now, let's talk about why there are demons in Thailand?
This brings us to the religious culture of Thailand and the specific context of the times at that time.
Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
First, let's talk about the religious culture of Thailand.
We know that the dominant religion in Thailand is Buddhism, and more than 90% of Thais practice Hinayana Buddhism.
Simply put, Hinayana Buddhism focuses on self-cultivation and spiritual independence. In such a country, men and women are very mild, everyone plays their own game, and men want to become women, which is more acceptable than other countries.
In contrast, Muslim countries in Southeast Asia and socialist countries in Indochina explicitly regard shemales and even all homosexual acts as illegal.
In addition, in Thai religious culture, the shemale is a sinful creature, and the reason why a person is born as a demon is a kind of karma. For example, it may be that she was a prostitute in her previous life, did not fulfill her due responsibilities to her children, and was punished in this life and became a demon and could not have her own children.
In their view, the shemale should accept his fate, and society will help them complete this round of "self-redemption" in life. Therefore, this biased religious and cultural belief can explain why Thai society can tolerate the existence of demons.
According to a 2016 survey of Thai shemales, 79.92% of Thais can accept the fact that their families have become shemales, which shows how tolerant Thai society is to the culture of "shemales".
Some people may argue against it:
Society tolerates demons, so must we be shemales? If it weren't for making money, who would want to be a shemale? ......
Tragic and beautiful stories can always touch the softness of the hearts of "righteous people". But the truth may be untouchable, incomprehensible, and even more unacceptable to them.
Some people are willing to be shemale beings!
Although historical reasons and some economic reasons are not excluded, most of the demons are now from middle-class families, well-educated, and choosing to become shemales is their natural gender mismatch, and they think of themselves as women instead of men from the bottom of their hearts.
For example, Thailand's shemale queen, the first transgender MP Nok, she is a real magnate, well-educated talent.
The cultural soil suitable for the survival of the shemale is there, and what really makes the Thai shemale rise is the specific era background - the Vietnam War.
In the 1950s, the United States, Britain, France, and New Zealand signed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization with the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand.
At that time, Thailand, which was very scarce and short of money in various industries, proposed an additional condition for joining the organization:
Pattaya must be used as a place of leisure and entertainment for the US military in Thailand.
At this moment, the desire of American soldiers to have nowhere to put it finally made Thailand's demon industry and sex industry quickly ignite.
On the one hand, American soldiers are very curious about the exotic nature of Thailand; On the other hand, at that time, the supply and demand imbalance of the Thai sex trade was unbalanced, and Thai men who were eager to make money simply disguised as women to make money (the taste of American soldiers was really heavy), and shrewd businessmen also smelled this business opportunity at this time.
The prosperity of the shemale industry once earned Thailand a lot of foreign exchange.
One data shows that in 1957 there were about 20,000 sex workers in Thailand, which increased to 400,000 7 years later, and even as many as one million at its peak in the 1980s.
Pattaya, a small fishing village in the 1960s, soon became a "tourist mecca with Thai characteristics" and later became the "capital of orientalism". For example, the largest Pattaya Tiffany Cabaret in Southeast Asia was founded during the Vietnam War.
The streets of Pattaya in the mid-to-late last century
In addition, the Thai government at that time took indirect support for the shemale industry for the sake of domestic economic prosperity.
The hardware and software are up to standard, which is the root cause of the prosperity of Thai demons.
Today, in Thailand, where the service sector accounts for more than half of GDP, traditional male occupations are gradually losing their advantage, and more and more Thai men will become one of the demons.
According to statistics, the number of Thai shemales is huge, accounting for about 2% of the Thai male population, which means that the number of Thai shemales is about 660,000.
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Perhaps, in the eyes of many people, shemales are transgender, neither fully male nor truly women, which is counterintuitive.
It is precisely because of this that there has been a great deal of controversy about this particular group from the outside world.
But shemales, herringbone heads.
They have blood, flesh, dignity, dreams, want to bring a better life to their families, and want to break out of their own piece of the sky...
To put it more humbly, perhaps they just want to get a little more respect and tolerance from the society and the audience.
That's all.
After all, people are fucking born, demons are fucking born, when a demon has a "self-esteem heart", then he is no longer a demon, but a demon!