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Deena Guzder exposes how the economic crisis has changed the nature of sex tourism in Thailand.
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Pattaraporn Sritongtae
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Nicha Wachpanich
Nicha Wachpanich is a Thai freelance journalist based in Bangkok. She covers environmental and human rights issues through human-interest storytelling, ranging from climate crises and cross-border...
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Paris Jitpentom
Paris Jitpentom is deputy news editor at the online news media outlet TODAY. He lives in Thailand.
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Ploythida Ketkaew
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Pimpatipan Angkharuengrattana is a developer at PunchUp, based in Thailand. PunchUp is a website that combines data with storytelling.
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![1](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/2077.jpg.webp?h=192d2398&itok=PUphaUpw "Thailand's sex tourism industry is primarily driven by acute poverty. “All forms of prostitution are about comparatively rich men buying poor women,” says feminist scholar and law professor Catharine MacKinnon. “Anything that accentuates that inequality increases the abuse that can be demanded."")
