Child Prostitution in Thailand: Listening to Rahab

by Sorajjakool; Siroj

• ISBN13: 9780789014955
• ISBN10: 0789014955
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-10-22
• 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	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
Methodology	2	(1)
Sources of Information and the Collection of Stories	3	(1)
Purpose	4	(1)
Organization	4	(3)
Ju and Other Stories: Selling Children	7	(8)
Selling Children	8	(2)
Statistics, Facts, and Figures	10	(2)
Feelings	12	(1)
Saving Children	13	(2)
From Coercion to Personal Decision: Changing Forms of Child Prostitution	15	(8)
Factors Contributing to This Change	18	(5)
Ban Pongnong: Living in Poverty	23	(10)
Got	24	(2)
Poverty	26	(5)
Reflection	31	(2)
Chiang Mai Restaurants: Entering the Sex Trade	33	(10)
Parents	34	(2)
Leaving Home	36	(1)
Restaurants and Cafes	36	(2)
Entering the Sex Industry	38	(3)
Reflection	41	(2)
Rickshaw Driver: Paying for Sex	43	(10)
Types of Perpetrators	45	(4)
The Market	49	(2)
The Victims	51	(2)
Chiang Rai: Returning Home	53	(10)
The Family	54	(2)
The Psyche	56	(1)
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome	57	(6)
Somsak Deema: Trafficking Women and Children	63	(16)
The Cycle of Abuse	64	(2)
Trafficking	66	(1)
Outbound	67	(4)
Inbound	71	(5)
The Future	76	(3)
Reflection	79	(6)
Afterword	85	(2)
Global Incidence of Child Prostitution	87	(6)
Notes	93	(8)
Index	101