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I just read a book on Thailand that I picked up on Amazon. It is the life story of a 13-year old runaway who got into the sex-tourist industry. It is nothing like the other books on the Pattaya and Thailand. It is the girl's point of view and it is No-Holds-Barred.

 

I pulled this from the book:

 

The Title:

“Only 13”

A Young Victim of Thailand’s Prolific Sex Tourist Industry Speaks Out

 

Only 13 will enlighten the reader to the status of females in rural Esarn, Thailand.

One will learn what it is like:

 

*To be born female in a land where “Women are pawns in times of need.”

*To sell one’s virginity at the age of 14.

*To be a girl who becomes involved in the sex-tourist trade for seven years to compensate for her father’s death—only to learn that her sacrifice will never win her mother’s love.

*To be only 15 and paid by the man she loves to have an abortion instead of his baby.

*To be only 18 and attempt suicide to escape forever the life of a teenage prostitute.

*To flee the sex-tourist scene of Thailand for prostitution in Germany, and be faced with the consequences of more poor choices, before escaping to Sweden and becoming a stripper.

*One will learn what it is like to be Lon.

 

She speaks with the powerful and determined voice of an activist bringing to light the injustice that she and many other girls from her background have suffered.

 

A survivor’s story, sociology lecture, cross-cultural lesson, humanities discussion, the story’s impact will make you think, and re-examine your own views regardless of where you stand on many issues concerning poverty, prostitution and women in SE Asia.

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billsmith98

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Yeah sound like bullshit to me..... does not mean it isnt true. but it's not a real good idea to judge anothers culture by your morals....

 

Unless it's the damned ragheads...... nothing wrong with judging them as long as they are found guilty and sentenced to death.

 

 

IMHO that is.......

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I've read the book, not too bad. Passed the time on the train. Maybe bullshit in some peoples opinion but when your not in Pattaya anything involving sex and bars in Pattaya is interesting.

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That sounds like the book named "My name Lon, you like me"? an (allegedly)true story written by Derek Sharron. ISBN 974-92721-5-3

I have it here on my book shelf.

 

So can only assume the same story must have been written under differing titles?

 

Whilst on the subject of books, for any of you considering, or indeed already in, a more serious relationship with a lovely Thai Lady:

 

I heard about, bought & read a book called "Thailand Fever" a road map for Western/Thai relations. It is truly excellent. Written, if my memory serves by an American man & his Thai female partner. It is in both in English in Thai, with every page spread being in the one language on the left & the other on the right.

It touched on so many of, what we thought were arguements, which infact were only differences in the way we see things, almost word for word.

 

My TG is the not the easiest to try & explain something to or ask to do something. She didn't even want to take the book. I thought it would go in the first bin she passed.

Some weeks later, after she had gone home, I get an sms telling me how very good the book is, that there are big differences in the way a Thai Lady & Farang man see things, & that it is good information for life, & that she now "understands me."

 

I don't have the ISBN no. as the book is currently in Khorat & I'm in the UK.

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That sounds like the book named "My name Lon, you like me"? an (allegedly)true story written by Derek Sharron. ISBN 974-92721-5-3

I have it here on my book shelf.

 

So can only assume the same story must have been written under differing titles?

 

Whilst on the subject of books, for any of you considering, or indeed already in, a more serious relationship with a lovely Thai Lady:

 

I heard about, bought & read a book called "Thailand Fever" a road map for Western/Thai relations. It is truly excellent. Written, if my memory serves by an American man & his Thai female partner. It is in both in English in Thai, with every page spread being in the one language on the left & the other on the right.

It touched on so many of, what we thought were arguements, which infact were only differences in the way we see things, almost word for word.

 

My TG is the not the easiest to try & explain something to or ask to do something. She didn't even want to take the book. I thought it would go in the first bin she passed.

Some weeks later, after she had gone home, I get an sms telling me how very good the book is, that there are big differences in the way a Thai Lady & Farang man see things, & that it is good information for life, & that she now "understands me."

 

I don't have the ISBN no. as the book is currently in Khorat & I'm in the UK.

Those books are available at DCO Thai, you can buy them online. Some of them are a great read. Ones I would recommend for Newbies is Private Dancer and Money Number one.

 

Stephen Leather also has a new book out where he is a ghost writer of a Bangkok Detective.

 

It is available from Monsoon books.

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Bookazine in Big C (Festival Center) usually have a good selection of such books. I recommend Thailand Land of Beautiful Women by Dean Barrett ISBN: 0-9661899-3-0, bought in that shop some years ago for 795 baht.

 

Private Dancer - I've somewhere the complete book as a pdf-file from the days you could find the complete book on internet now there's just a part of it.

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HP,

 

I didn't find anything about books on Thailand on that site????

 

 

PS This post was an answer to a new poster promoting an other board and had nothing to do with books on Thailand and that post is now deleted.

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Having just read through the excerts on the book website, it seems to me that Only "13" is a reincarnation of "my name is Lon, You like me?"

 

So whats that all about then? Maybe she didnt make enough money first time round. Who knows. Still an interesting read though.

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The title of this thread is Books on Thailand, so I won't restrict a recommendation to just the book on Sex in LOS. Consider the book The King Never Smiles. Came out in July. Not light reading, but very informative. For those that have some time on their hands...You can search the contents of the book at Amazon.

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I think I have read almost all the true stories books from Thailand, "Welcome to Hell" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Welcome-Hell-Insid...n/dp/0954870778 was one of the best.

 

Sometimes I regret reading all these books. I wanted Pattaya to stay as a dreamland not to know the horrible truths... But then again thats what is living is all about. If you want another eyeopener/depressing story... Welcome to the bangkok slaughterhouse is a very good book, if you ever feel like your life is crap, just pick up this book and you'll be smiling again....

 

I have a degree standard big book about the sex industry in Thailand, if your brain has not been toasted by too many nights out in pattaya and all that lack of intellectual stimulation talking to bg's then its a good read, it hurt my head alot but it gives a very good insight into what really happens behind closed doors in the industry in thailand. The book is... Working at the Bar: Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand (Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium S.)

 

Let me know what you think if anyone dares to read it. Also if anyone is interested I will do a better review to what it covers.. a summary.

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Sometimes I regret reading all these books. I wanted Pattaya to stay as a dreamland not to know the horrible truths... But then again thats what is living is all about...I have a degree standard big book about the sex industry in Thailand, if your brain has not been toasted by too many nights out in pattaya and all that lack of intellectual stimulation talking to bg's then its a good read, it hurt my head alot but it gives a very good insight into what really happens behind closed doors in the industry in thailand. The book is... Working at the Bar: Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand (Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium S.)...Let me know what you think if anyone dares to read it. Also if anyone is interested I will do a better review to what it covers.. a summary.
Just keep in mind that happy stories are generally not written and don't sell, so the "truth" is not fully represented...I, for one, would be interested in knowing any facts from the book that stuck with you.
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