And that is typical latintopxxx nonsense! Describing young men and women as disposable plates because they work in the porn industry is disgraceful! We know latintopxxx's methods, his way with words and that he fucks around all and sundry - guys that is. Very few other posters are like him, fortunately, and most do not resort to such dreadful descriptions.
The sex industry in Thailand is huge but expats and foreigners see only a small fraction of it. A recent report states that it is worth USD6 billion annually (and that's probably an underestimate). It involves young ladies, young men and even, behind closed doors, underage youths of both sexes. It has little to do now with paddy fields. It involves many sectors of soceity and is about cash, plain and simple.
His basic premise is also nonsense. Given his travels no doubt he has hit on Japan a few times. Japan's sex and porn industry is estimated to be worth vastly more than Thailand's - over USD70 billion +. Porn movie sales alone contribute around 1% of the country's GDP. Much of the total revolves around clubs for older men to meet very young ladies, many of whom are schoolgirls out for extra cash and gifts, but more than a few are for older ladies to meet younger male "escorts", also out for cash. Many places do not accept foreigners, but increasingly a great many more do. Boy houses where large numbers of 18 year olds look closer to 14 can easily be found on the internet and are in every city. Teenage prostitution is rife.
The Japanese from the senior levels of government down to the lowly farmer know precisely what is going on, and virtually all tolerate it. Culturally sex and older men taking young boys under their wings are deeply ingrained in Japanese social history.
No society? Nonsense!