Why do some countries like Thailand and Cambodia seem to have cultures that are more permissive toward child prostitution?
Posted Oct 8, 2018, 2:01 AM UTC
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They're not. It's just easier to get away with. Thailand is pretty merciless when it comes to pedo sexpats.
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They're not. It's just easier to get away with.
To my mind these two statements are directly contradictory.
Why would they be easier to get away with in those cultures unless people are somehow more tolerant of it for some reason?
Cambodia you can blame extreme poverty and I'm sure that doesn't help at all but Thailand... there are so many places worse off where that isn't seen to the same degree, it just isn't.
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If you deal harshly with offenders you catch, but the abuses are widespread and you can't catch everyone, that doesn't equate to permissiveness.
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Harshly punishing those you convict isn't really an excuse that I can see for convicting proportionately fewer than others. The enforcement rate just can't be very good if these are THE destinations for child sex tourists. Locals aren't telling police or police are paid off and complacent about what's happening in these places even if the legal penalties are nominally harsh.
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Didn't you admit in another post to being turned on by the thought of having sex with kids? Yeah, that was you. What are you doing? Researching where to take your next vacation you sick fuck?
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Because it’s impossible to tell the difference between a 25-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy in those countries
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I laughed entirely way too much at this!
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OK, I laughed.
Want to try for a serious answer too?
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Poor economies especially in rural areas.
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Well in countries like that when I’ve been there I’ve noticed that people don’t care much about rules and the law so younger girls like 13 are seen as women cause some already look like women and it’s part of the culture and most people don’t see them as girls but child like 7 it’s probably because it’s easy to get away with it sadly
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People suck. Sorry my answer is lame and isn't what youre looking for. But i'll do my best.
Some cultures are tough on their children, its true but sometimes decisions have to be made in countries where poverty is so harsh. As families are sometimes so poor they have to put a kid into prostitution to feed the mother and other children and not many people will sit and go "its either all or none of us.".
I wish I had the education to know a special reason other than poverty but survival is survival, and people are still animals when theyre hungry or without shelter and will do anything to get some footing.
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I can understand poverty as a factor in that way and it makes sense as terrible as it is... I don't think I could ever be so poor as to do that... I'd whore myself long before a child. But anyway, I can sort of understand that humans under that extreme pressure can resort to this kind of thing... I've heard of maiming their children to make them convincing beggars too...
I suspect though that there is another element more principally at play, related to this one but more specific to these cultures rather than poverty in general.
How much do you care about other people's children? To the extent even possible or meaningful to conceptualize how much does the average person of your culture?
What about those cultures?
I think there's where it is. There aren't many of us who, if we found out a child, not our own, just any child was being abused, wouldn't feel highly motivated to do something about it. I don't think this is shared equally across all cultures. Nor a concern for, say, orphans in some kind of fosterage, homeless children, malnourished children, etc.
Comparing countries poverty levels won't match up so neatly with, say, the number of children on the street, the number of child prostitutes, etc.
I'm more inclined to think it's people not caring about other people's kids who slip through the cracks than not caring enough about their own. And I would wonder what causes that attitude.
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For me? As I dont have any children nor am I even old enough to move out. I always do my best to help. Im the "give me an inch and i'll show you how to get the mile" type. I just need to be worked with and if that kid cant work with me then oh well, maybe when they feel up to it.
The average person of my culture? They wouldnt give a shit and its cruel and disgusting to me.
For my culture is a generation thing, its "if youre a fuck up, youre always a fuck up and you wont change." Sadly, I believe the world will be better without them and maybe things around the world will be better without that mindset.
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They don’t have tough enough laws and actions to abate it.
Put a nice set of big bold red letters on signs at the airports for the foreign travelers to see that say, “fucking a child is subject to immediate castration” and you might actually reduce demand...
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Corrupt leaders, social inequality and poverty to name a few reasons.
Those don't seem like satisfying explanations: most countries have corrupt leadership, social inequality and poverty. And while things like flesh trafficking and child prostitution are on some level in every country, and I am sure that those things don't help, countries more corrupt and unequal and impoverished than Thailand, for instance, don't seem to have the same tolerance. There has to be some other cultural component...
Maybe because it’s so prevalent there, it’s become normalised?
Like they got boiling frog'd into giving up on it in a sense and accepting it as some kind of collateral damage of openness to trade or modernity or whatever? That does seem plausible. But what would make for the initializing prevalence?
I have Thai friends and they are the loveliest, most polite and generous people you’ll ever meet. I don’t mean this offensively but they are always eager to please and help others. They believe in social harmony and cooperation. Maybe this helps to explain their tolerance?