Next few days on Myanmar Mike will be fully dedicated to the land of Siam, Thailand. So I thought it might be a good time to publish some sort of declaration or disclaimer if you want. I’ll bring out sex related articles, no doubt, but I have different approach from the most bloggers. So how different is my approach? You gonna understand if you keep reading, I give you’re my word, my honest myanmarmike’s word.

Sex, sex, the Thai famous sex industry is glimmering, blinking neon on the dark streets of Patpong and Nana. Bangkok, Pataya, Phuket, consequently sweet words for every sex tourist ear. Now listen carefully to the prophecy of blogging madman, I pretty sure that in couple of year’s prostitution in Thailand will be in exact state shown on the following picture:

A prostitution “reuducation center” at a former brothel in Beijing, 1949.

Following the Communist Party of China’s victory in 1949, local government authorities were charged with the task of eliminating prostitution. One month after the Communist takeover of Beijing on February 3, 1949, the new municipal government under Ye Jianying announced a policy to control the city’s many brothels. On November 21, all 224 of Beijing’s establishments were shut down; 1286 prostitutes and 434 owners, procurers, and pimps were arrested in the space of 12 hours by an estimated 2400 cadres. Not surprisingly, the Beijing campaign has been much celebrated in historical accounts. Due to the enormity of social issues that had to be addressed, and the limited budgets and human resources of local governments, most cities adopted the slower approach of first controlling and then prohibiting brothel-prostitution.This method was used in Tianjin, Shanghai and Wuhan. Typically it involved a system of governmental administration which controlled brothel activities and discouraged male patrons. The combined effect of such measures was to gradually reduce the number of brothels in each city until the point where a “Beijing-style” closure of the remaining brothels was deemed feasible and reeducation could begin. Reeducation programs were undertaken on the largest scale in Shanghai, where the number of sex workers had grown to 100,000 following the Second Sino-Japanese War.