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Thailand

General Information about country, people, geography and climate can be gotten from the CIA World Factbook entry.

Legal Situation: Prostitution is technically illegal, but largely tolerated. There seems to be a recent crack down on child prostitution though. A report about the economics and politics of child prostitution in Thailand is available online.

The age of consent is 16. Police discourage girls between 16 and 18 from the prostitution business.

Four very comprehensive articles about the thai scene appeared in alt.sex.services:

Other contributed articls:

Excerpts from a PhD thesis about prostitution in Thailand (seems like I chose the wrong field...) are here. There's even a map of the interesting area included. The author's home page contains a photo of a Pussy Razor blade Show in Patpong.
A research paper on prostitution in Thailand and Southeast Asia
Long travel report #1
Long travel report #2
News clips
A warning.
Hot tip: the Nana Plaza and the Thermae Coffee Shop.
Price updates, bits and pieces.
Hotels that provide girls
A homepage "dedicated to the problem of prostitution in Thailand".

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