Asklemmy

I’m not saying anything bad about the country I’m just saying if you want to visit you probably don’t have the best intentions.

I want to visit. Not for sex.

You'd have to be really fucking retarded to believe that those things are only bad and prevelant in those countries. Or that their governments aren't doing anything to try and stop those things either. So honestly you'll be doing everyone there a favor by never going 😂. Also if your brain is capable of it, why not try flipping it the inverse and see how it sounds coming from the other way. "If someone told me they wanted to go/have been to the U.S. despite knowing about the constant mass shootings, police brutality, human trafficking issues, the list goes on, then I'd be really suspicious of them. NoThInG gOoD hApPeNS oVEr tHeRE." god you'd sound fucking stupid. Good thing you didn... oh wait💀😭

You're unsurprisingly getting a lot of replies along these lines, taking issue with this strange and unfounded blanket statement about an entire country and you're replying back to them with similar riffs on the theme that those commenters are being disingenuous and masking a kind of widely known understanding that the reason people visit there is for the sex industry.

I have to say I think you might have gotten the wrong idea there. There's a kernel of truth to it in that yes, it is known to be a place where sex tourism occurs so you could say it was famous for it, but I also don't think that that's like, their thing. Other commenters have tried to persuade you of this by pointing out compelling reasons one might go there other than for sex tourism but you seem unwilling to believe them because of this idea you've latched on to that they're being deliberately naive. I think it might help just to point out that, at least amongst Australians, this is a very mainstream holiday destination, like it's not a place where anyone would raise their eyebrows to hear you were going there. You could happily discuss this at any workplace and say you're going to Thailand for a holiday and you'd probably get a lot people saying how much they love the place and asking which part you're going to. I'd be surprised to learn if somehow all or even most of these people, sometimes families with children, had all gone there for a shag and also that this practice was so widely known that it was somehow a reasonable, immediate assumption to make about why they'd chosen Thailand and yet they also decided to broadcast this intention to everyone they know.

While I don't know the stats, I would guess that a lot of the world's sex tourism probably occurs there, so I imagine that's where you got the idea that that's THE reason to go there but it's also just a place where a lot of tourism generally happens.

Maybe I just don’t associate with people who are pieces of shit because none of my friends who went to Thailand or the Philippines went there for sex tourism… obviously it exists there but to discredit the entire country as just a place of sex tourism is extremely xenophobic, if the majority of people you know who go to Thailand are going for sex tourism that sounds like more of a problem with your friend group