Economics of Prostitution in Thailand

Abstract: This 6 page report discusses the economic aspects of prostitution in Thailand and examines the significant impact it has had on the national economy. Internationally, Thailand has been commonly described as a nation in which commercial sex has been raised to the level of a national industry. As an important spur to its rapid economic growth in the 1980s, Thailand as a tourist destination was, in part, marketed to the foreign market via the explicit and implied suggestion of readily available cheap sex. The Thai government and media are attempting to refute that image but the fact remains that prostitution, in Thailand, is a significant economic unit of production. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

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