Few issues in Thailand are as emotive as sex trafficking, which activists say is a growing problem despite the millions of dollars spent on tackling it each year.
At least 80,000 women and girls are supposedly trafficked into Thailand’s sex industry annually, some claim, with children as young as eight locked up in brothels and forced to service up to 20 men a day. Poor hilltribe families in the north are said to frequently sell their daughters into the flesh trade, seeing this as “a quick way to obtain material goods that designate social status.”
The problem, however, is that the figures simply don’t add up, nor do the horrifying, heart-wrenching stories stand up to scrutiny. Critics say anti-trafficking activists often have a “white savior complex,” are self-serving, routinely inflate statistics, deliberately conflate the separate issues of trafficking and prostitution, and in general do far more harm than good.
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