(rxpharm @ Dec. 20 2009,10:37) While I haven't traveled in the back country much as you have I noticed the following. Families from Isaan place a higher demand on children - both lbs and ggs to support the family (including the extended family). I don't think this means that MOST groom their lb children or girls to become sex workers. However, unfortunately this seems to be the easiest way for the children to earn money to support their families. Strange they don't have the same expectation for the sons.
During those trips I met and chatted with many LBs and GGs who worked in BKK and Pattaya and subsequently returned to the villages...I'm not certain that their
families knew or wanted to know what their children did in the big city to earn a baht...The mother of the LB I was with had no idea...and I was asked not
to say where we had met...
I certainly do agree that there are ladyboy factories in Isaan...But I don't believe that there are prostitute factories...
In any event, even if it were true...It wouldn't be happening if it wasn't for us...
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