I suspect that when a country is vastly more prosperous than it's neighbors you find workers from low income arriving and driving out locals who expect more remuneration. Thw last time I was in Pattaya someone at Toy Boys from Chaing Rai told me he was going back home where life is cheaper and he could work in a 7 Eleven and be able to survive with a steady salary, Cambodians, Laotions and Northen area Vietnamese have far less options.
christianpfc (May 21st, 2018), francois (May 20th, 2018)
Without straying into forbidden subjects - prostitution (in all its manifestations) is the oldest profession in the world, it will never disappear and just because it's not in your face, you can be sure it's there under the surface in any country in the world
As to the airport, please forgive me; but this is silly. Why would any person reply with anything other than "on holiday" . I'm not a catholic and do not support the idea of a "sin of omission" Not volunteering information is not a lie; especially when so personal. Good God, when Mom asked if you slept well did you volunteer your mastubatory practices or did you "LIE" like any rational youth?
You are right of course. But I see a difference between family/friends/collegues and all others.
I only feel shame when friends or family know something I rather keep secret (that I am a sex tourist for example). If a government employee (airport officer) who doesnt know me and I don't know him knows that about me, I don't feel any shame. Say you have erection problems. You care if some person knows that about you, a person who doesn't know you and you dont know him? Yet, you don't tell this easily to friends and family, then you start caring.
So there is a difference between voluntering information to unknown people versus known people.
So likewise I don't care if someone I don't know knows I am a sex tourist. I would care if people at work knew that about me. Because you can expect daily jokes about it etc.
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
This reminds me of a quote by Donald Rumsfeld (United States Secretary of Defense)
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.