Last week I read a very interesting book, the author is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago currently, during her Berkeley Ph.D. study, research alone went to Vietnam service industry. For in-depth into the real lives of these sex workers, before and after the author took five years, personally went to Ho Chi Minh City four bars to go to work, to collect first-hand information, to complete the book, and gains a number of academic awards.

Academic research in admiration of the courage and persistence at the same time, the book also caused me great interest in this area, so hands-on writing this article. Here I combine academic research, official statistics, news reports, video materials, as well as for interviews with local friends, trying to restore a true Southeast Asian tourism industry (Sex Tourism) status quo.

Sex Toursim, sex tourism, prostitution tours commonly known as the United Nations World Tourism Organization defines it as "to travel on behalf of, or as part of a trip to the identity of the traveler's destination, the sex trade activities." For example, in travel visit the red light district and experience in sex, sexual conduct transactions through local channels or networks. To put it plainly, what is the journey of them spend a bit of that.

Some of the most popular tourist destination countries including: Thailand, the Philippines, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, Spain and so on. This time we are focusing at an affordable price, sexually mature industry links known in Southeast Asia, South East Asia including Thailand Bangkok famous Red Light District Patpong and Nana, Phuket, Pattaya, Manila, Philippines Malate, City of Angels (Angeles City), Vietnam Japan Ho Chi Minh City Street, Jakarta, Indonesia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh bar Street, such as Singapore Geylang. To provide sexual service bar commonly known as "gogo bar" is often a few yuan to buy a bottle of beer, girl around there to take the initiative to strike up a conversation, three hundred can be taken away overnight.

If you search on the net outside the engine-related words, jump out a series of detailed and complete version of the guide Raiders, taught you how to go to these places for sex. But sorry, this article will not teach you how to pay for sex. If your goal is prostitution, you come to the wrong place, turn off this article, go right.

In fact, most people do not know the whole story behind the mode of operation of the service industry and sex workers, I am here to provide more hope to understand, as well as another way of looking at service industry.

Southeast Asia's first sex tourism model can be traced back to the wartime military bases and the Japanese colonial period. The influence of traditional patriarchal social thought in Asia, many local women engaged in sex work, many of them were later to become the mistress of the foreign officers. With the further occupation of outsiders on the local economy and military, the development of this model prepared comfort women became notorious, coercion local women to meet the physical needs of army soldiers. Today, the trend of economic globalization, the tourism industry has become a cross-border trade, the sex workers were treated as commodities trading.

We can understand, sex tourism, and the whole service industry, not just the sex trade that simple. It is an international relations with national policies, cultural tradition, ethnic religion, social class, gender equality, social problems poverty, economic system and model, prevention and control in areas such as health and hygiene are closely related to nature.