Factors That Promote Sex Slavery in Thailand

Good morning, we are Staša and Samanta and today we are going to present you an article about sex slavery in Thailand and our main aim is to show you that the problem in Thailand can also hit every country in the world.

Firstly I would like to begin with description of what sexual slavery actually means. It is a special form of abuse which includes restrictions on individual freedom of movement and power to decide on matters concerning one's sexual activities. Such action includes forced marriage, which ultimately involves forced sexual activity.

Factors that promote sex slavery in Thailand

I would now like to turn briefly to the factors that implicitly promote sex slavery in Thailand.

Role of religion

In Thailand, the predominant religion is Theravada Buddhism and in particular, it is widely believed that enlightenment as an ultimate triumph is exclusively reserved only for men.

Buddhist monks also have vihaya, which is a document that instructs them on the process for selecting a suitable wife. Inclusive in this list of ten guidelines are the first three items which openly speak on behalf of prostitution as an acceptable option:

• those bought for money, those living together voluntarily, those to be enjoyed or used occasionally.

In addition it as well means that women are expendable(worthless) functioning only to sexually serve men.

Role of families

Turning to role of families in Thailand, there are three concepts that are connected with family functioning and sexual mores. It include

• bonded labor, the role of Thai daughters within a family system  

Families who have too much financial debt and are unable to pay off these bills, they rather submit human offerings (often daughters) in the form of either manual labor or sexual service to remove the debt. Service can be done for a temporary or they can be indefinite and it can also be passed along the future generations in which yet-to-be-born can inherit the same obligation.