Are the Americans to blame?

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Dear Hillary,

I am told that the bar girl sex for sale thing came with the Americans on R&R from Vietnam.  That’s about 40 years ago.  Surely it’s time to stop blaming us Americans for everything?

GI Joe

Dear GI Joe,

Thank you for the opportunity to print a correction.  The R&R Americans did not bring prostitution to Thailand.  The “world’s oldest profession” was alive and well long before the VN conflict.  In fact by several hundred years!  It really is time people understood that this is not a Thailand phenomenon, but exists everywhere.  Any of you been to Amsterdam (Holland), or King’s Cross (Australia), or Soho (London) or the Reeperbahn (Hamburg) recently?  However, Thailand may be just a little bit more honest about the whole situation.