Lol. First you say that the government probably WOULDN'T publish it, then you say it that might -- but it would be ridiculous anyway. NOT clear, straight thinking from you, sir. Or perhaps your thinking reflects that of the government's -- still not straight or clear thinking.
I have no doubt that prostitution is illegal. No snickering from me. I also know that the SAME government does deal with the ravages of their illegal sex industry. THEIR media does have the honesty to report the sad tales of girls (and boys) sold into prostitution.
Perhaps the government does keep silent on the shame of their TOURIST sex industry, but that industry has helped spread their version of AIDS/HIV to other countries. The tracking viruses don't lie.
That same government DOES deal with their illegal prostitutes by trying to help them prevent AIDS/HIV with condom distribution. Why WOULDN'T they try to slow it down and help their people? To ignore the problem -- and Thailand isn't the only southeast country with the problem -- would only exacerbate it.
To pretend that Thailand doesn't have the same kinds of sex industry problems that so many other countries have, our own included, it to deny what's going on in so much of the world. Doesn't make any sense. Thailand isn't any worse than other countries -- or any better.
Their transvestite beauty contest SHOULD be a clue to you what kind of morality is considered important. It is really disgusting, pure Hollywood type of morality--validating the sick, abnormal lifestyles of the sick and abnormal. Perhaps you consider it all just good clean fun. I don't.
I like the Thai and this this is pathetic p.r. for a lovely country. Yes, I have been there -- loved it, the people and the countryside, though I couldn't ignore what was in front of my nose.
In the PRC, 21 year old girls from the country go to work in factories. In Thailand, only some of them do, while many go to become bar girls and prostitutes. By the way, I am not fond of the PRC. I'd love to see Thailand getting a good many of those factories and jobs.
I don't believe you are as dim-witted as one might think by reading your reply.
You know very well I meant that it is unlikely, yet possible that the Thai government published stats that HIV/AIDS is 80% or whatever amongst 'prostitutes' when they resist acknowledging that there is prostitution here.
Your ranting on about Thai culture, morality, etc., is of no interest to me. Perhaps it is to others, but I just glanced at it so will not comment futher.