Saturday, February 26, 2005
Don't try the tom yum
Holy shttttt...Was all that I could manage to say. I warily opened the styrofoam container (already dripping icky oily liquid which should have been heeded as a warning) ... My friends warned me about buying from streetside vendors in Bangkok: It's hit-and-miss. yess it is cheap and yes it can be tasty -- but if you hit a dud - well you know all about it ...
But isnt that what life is all about - taking risks I mean?
Well this little offering from mrs lek on the corner was one time when taking risks was NOT a good idea.
Speaking of taking risks, I have just finished reading a rather sobering book about the Asian sex slave trade... poverty is a terrible thing - especially when the poor and vulnerable are being preyed upon.
Taking a risk here is a little more daunting than indulging in a dodgy portion of tom yum... I mean risking getting into bed with a woman (sans condom) who may or may not have an interesting and alarming selection of scary sexual diseases... is just plain dumb.
Young girls as young as EIGHT (even four I read about too) are being Sold into prosititution in countries like Thailand.. Yes the sex tourism industry is very in your face in Bangkok (excsue the expression) and yes it is very irritating in a lot of ways.. but i think sometimes people (especially men sadly) lose touch with reality.. a lot of them actually believe these young women (and little girls actually) ENJOY being prosititutes ! I guess it makes them feel a bit better about the fact that they are buying their bodies on a daily basis and propping up a horrendous industry where only a select and very powerful few truely profit -by this i mean powerful, moneyed men including POlititicians and "respectable" businessmen. meanwhile, young women are merely relegated to being commodities only as valuable as their youth /or how disease free they are (which by the time they are 30 they are either dead or on the way there)
It's time to stand up and make a NOISE about this!
But isnt that what life is all about - taking risks I mean?
Well this little offering from mrs lek on the corner was one time when taking risks was NOT a good idea.
Speaking of taking risks, I have just finished reading a rather sobering book about the Asian sex slave trade... poverty is a terrible thing - especially when the poor and vulnerable are being preyed upon.
Taking a risk here is a little more daunting than indulging in a dodgy portion of tom yum... I mean risking getting into bed with a woman (sans condom) who may or may not have an interesting and alarming selection of scary sexual diseases... is just plain dumb.
Young girls as young as EIGHT (even four I read about too) are being Sold into prosititution in countries like Thailand.. Yes the sex tourism industry is very in your face in Bangkok (excsue the expression) and yes it is very irritating in a lot of ways.. but i think sometimes people (especially men sadly) lose touch with reality.. a lot of them actually believe these young women (and little girls actually) ENJOY being prosititutes ! I guess it makes them feel a bit better about the fact that they are buying their bodies on a daily basis and propping up a horrendous industry where only a select and very powerful few truely profit -by this i mean powerful, moneyed men including POlititicians and "respectable" businessmen. meanwhile, young women are merely relegated to being commodities only as valuable as their youth /or how disease free they are (which by the time they are 30 they are either dead or on the way there)
It's time to stand up and make a NOISE about this!
# posted by Karen @ 8:07 AM 
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Yes it is time to make a noise about it. I hope Gary Glitter gets the death sentence, hopefully twice.
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