A Thai bargirl is more than a sex machine, a money extractor, or a ruthless scammer.
Noi Thawattana was a Bangkok prostitute, working in hostess lounges, massage parlors, and go-go bars. After marrying an American man and moving to the United States, she wrote Thai Girl Naked to expose the life of a Thai bargirl through her own voice and from her own eyes.
Thai Girl Naked is a rare look at the reality of Thailand's prostitution scene, and more generally at women in Thailand, without the beer goggles, cultural ignorance, and male bravado of tourists' memoirs.
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Thailand's prostitution industry has secrets, and there's a lot that bargirls are not supposed to tell their customers.
If customers ask, bargirls have to say that they love their jobs, no one is forcing them to do it, they've never tried drugs, they are regularly tested for diseases, and of course they're over eighteen years old. How else can they answer, especially with a boss watching over them?
The truth is often very different from these answers and Thai smiles, and the truth is seldom realized by tourists to Thailand.
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