#52: The Documentarian
He learned of Thailand’s brutal sex trade. Then he looked into himself to see what he could do about it.
David Goorevitch is now the Executive Producer of The Frangipani Project. His email is reprinted below with permission:
“One day when my daughter was young, I found myself speaking with a distant neighbour about his trip to Thailand. He had gone there for a sex tour and stayed for a month. He told me that ‘anything goes’, ‘any age you like’. So I went home and warned my daughter. To my shame, I did not warn anyone else.
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I’ve never been to Thailand. I was a soldier in the Far East in the early sixties, and heard believable stories of visitors to Thailand (then) experiencing idyllic times with young (not inappropriately young) women for whom a one week amateur liaison was a joyful and personally remunerative time. In those days, the sex trade for westerners was evidently built on the relaxed mores of a more sex-positive society. I’ll grant that this business has turned into something hideous as the trade has become commodified and exploitive of girls and boys. But it’s interesting that it’s changed over the last… Read more »
I am rather astonished, that there are no follow-up comments to this article. I wonder why.
‘anything goes’
‘any age you like’
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You are grossly misinformed if you think you can do in Thailand whatever you like.
Prisons in Thailand are full with such kind of people who ‘misunderstood’ the law.