Child Prostitution in Thailand: Listening to Rahab

by Sorajjakool; Siroj

• ISBN13: 9780789014948
• ISBN10: 0789014947
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In Thailand, a thriving sex industry makes its money exploiting the young. Some children are coerced into prostitution and some have been sold into sexual slavery by their own families, but just as tragically there is no shortage of young girls (and boys) willing to work as prostitutes. Child Prostitution in Thailand: Listening to Rahab searches for the reasons why. This insightful book looks into the lives--and even more importantly, listens to the words--of 10 Thai prostitutes. Child Prostitution in Thailand is about what we can learn from them--who they are, what they go through, and why. A helpful glossary of common Thai terms and an appendix assessing incidents of child prostitution around the globe bring the information even more clearly into focus.

Author Biography

Siroj Sorajjakool is Associate Professor of Religion (Pastoral Psychology) at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Methodology	p. 2
Sources of Information and the Collection of Stories	p. 3
Purpose	p. 4
Organization	p. 4
Ju and Other Stories: Selling Children	p. 7
Selling Children	p. 8
Statistics, Facts, and Figures	p. 10
Feelings	p. 12
Saving Children	p. 13
From Coercion to Personal Decision: Changing Forms of Child Prostitution	p. 15
Factors Contributing to This Change	p. 18
Ban Pongnong: Living in Poverty	p. 23
Got	p. 24
Poverty	p. 26
Reflection	p. 31
Chiang Mai Restaurants: Entering the Sex Trade	p. 33
Parents	p. 34
Leaving Home	p. 36
Restaurants and Cafes	p. 36
Entering the Sex Industry	p. 38
Reflection	p. 41
Rickshaw Driver: Paying for Sex	p. 43
Types of Perpetrators	p. 45
The Market	p. 49
The Victims	p. 51
Chiang Rai: Returning Home	p. 53
The Family	p. 54
The Psyche	p. 56
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome	p. 57
Somsak Deema: Trafficking Women and Children	p. 63
The Cycle of Abuse	p. 64
Trafficking	p. 66
Outbound	p. 67
Inbound	p. 71
The Future	p. 76
Reflection	p. 79
Afterword	p. 85
Global Incidence of Child Prostitution	p. 87
Notes	p. 93
Index	p. 101
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