University students in bangkok
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May 01, 2002
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Trip End
May 01, 2009
First it was an oddity, and then the oddity became a visible trickle. Soon thereafter, the trickle went mainstream. It is now a river. And so, these days, one finds no shortage of Thai university co-eds who are willing to have sex with rich strangers as a way of financing their education and lifestyle. They have an asset and they feel that they should be able to monetize that asset in order to invest in their future. It's not easy to take the opposing position in this debate. In patriarchal societies, women's access to wealth involves the reproductive function one way or another, whether it is marriage, dowry, concubinage, or prostitution. In matriarchal societies, as in certain parts of qinghai province in china, these gender roles are reveresed. Up there the women own the land and the means of production. Men access the wealth of the land by providing reproduction services.
