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Don't underestimate the concept of 'face'. Everyone in her village will know where she has gone and what she does for a living. The big fish would help right the wrong that she has wrought on her family.
Yes it's a conundrum, as you say they take the money, but we can't expect it all to make sense to our western mind.
Try this; go to a bar and ask a bargirl 'how much for long time'. Now, when you wake up in the morning, ask her if she minds being a prostitute, just make sure you are stood well back and there are no sharp things to hand. I would bet long odds-on that not one bargirl in the country sees herself as a ******. And just for the record, neither do I, it's far more complex than that.
According to my dictionary though, a prostitute is 'one who offers sexual intercourse for money', so work that one out. We, westerners, are conditioned into a 'what you see is what you get' mentality. In Thailand, it ain't neccessarily so.
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