A woman was speaking in the massage shop beside the restaurant in which I was eating. Yeah, it looks like a good and legit massage shop...open for all the world to see--actually, you'd get a massage as you are looking onto a beach and ocean. Nice.
" {Thai language...something, something, something...} sex-EE! "
I looked over...who was saying what to whom? She was fingering through a small girl's hair--looked like it had just been washed. The girl looked to be 7 or 8.
"Sexy" --is that all a female thinks of being here?
Two days ago some of us were talking. I mentioned a statistic I had heard. Beyond all the foreigners coming here for the sex trade, it's pretty much a part of the local culture. Years ago I heard a CNN report that said 70% of Thai men lose their virginity to a prostitute. A woman who had worked in the country for many years made it clear that she thinks it is higher than that. Fathers take their sons to a prostitute for the 'first time', show them how to be with a woman.
So, little girl, you want to be "sex-EE".
Yeah...this could be an over-reaction, taking one little comment too far. However, knowing what happens with adults in families, today, looking at children, I couldn't help but imagine their futures...and then hope and pray for a DIFFERENT future for them.
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