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The little box to the side of the BBC article states: "Estimates of the number of sex workers vary from 30,000 to more than a million"
The CIA Factbook says there are 22million women between the ages of 15 and 65 in Thailand. If we took the BBC's numbers seriously, that would mean 1 in 22 Thai women is a prostitute.
Wow! I guess those guys who go around propositioning girls in shopping malls are in the right after all.
And since they say "Most prostitutes come from northern Thailand," (they probably meant 'northeast'), that would make 1 in 10 Isaan girls a prostitute - equal to the number working in factories and 1/3 of the number working in the service industry.
Glaring flaws like this really erode the credibility of the BBC. The media forgets that credibility is all they really have to sell - one day it's going to come back and bite them in the a**.
This article was a pathetic piece of journalism. Only one person interviewed, and it failed to address the root cause of the issue: the huge economic disparity in Thailand.
Though one point it brought up is something that always bugged me: "[The girls] have to meet a quota of at least 10 customers a month, or wages will be cut."
- I actually think this practice is pretty harsh. I wish bar owners could find a way to turn a profit without this sort of quota. If you require your girls to meet a customer quota, technically you're a pimp.
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