Sorry to disagree, but I have been living in Thailand for the past 6 or so years. It is amazing the number of stories I have heard, none of them true, from both bar girls and from those who come to help 'save' them. Underage, less than 18, girls in bars are few and far between since it will result in the bar getting shut down and the owner arrested. Do you realize that the girls working in the bars are all there by choice and do it because it is easy money?
If you want to talk about prostitution in remote border areas, that is a different story. What goes on there is horrible but it is far from anywhere a western tourist will ever go.
Hey, that is not my area of ministry, I just passed on what she told me. It apparently is a very bad situation, and she was a real saint for volunteering to spend three weeks to try to help. I was particulary impressed with the State Dept. person that actually told them that they were partaking...