August 24, 200818 yr As the tourist dollars decrease and the entertainment industry suffers corruption will increase. The boys in pattaya are probably tired of the police raids and will seek areas with not as much police presence. Same with the barboys in pattaya they too will tire of the endless raids and move on to other bars in other areas. Bars in Sunee have always had a rough time keeping the good boys and these days it is so much harder for them.
August 24, 200818 yr Same with the barboys in pattaya they too will tire of the endless raids and move on to other bars in other areas. Certainly the bar boys are tired of the raids. Few of the bar boys enjoy working in the bars in the first place, but I'm not so sure you're going to see any kind of a bar boy exodus. They work in the bars primarily because it's an easy job, requiring no education or marketable skills, requires only a halfway decent body and a willingness to expose it publicly, and provides them with a means of earning more money than they can get any other way. I don't think they're going anywhere because there's really no place for them to go. I think they'll continue to tolerate the raids and all the other indignities they have to endure because if they quit, most have no opportunities at all other than working at menial jobs for more than twice as many hours for far less money. Either that, or go back to where they came from. Not too many want to opt for that because they don't relish the idea of living and working in poverty on the rice farm. Also, there is the factor of the ingrained obligation to send money to mama. Working in the bars may not be an enviable way to make a living, but it still beats almost anything else they can do.
August 25, 200818 yr I do agree that the boys are getting tired of the raids and it will cause many of them to move on from Sunee and Pattaya. It is a shame as many of the guys are over 18 and working legitimately. I do wonder if the cycle will continue or be broken by high season. I was sitting in a bar last night and said to the owner, "things here never change do they?" He said, "no, they run in cycles but they always go back to normal in the end." I have yet to determine the definition for normal but perhaps he is right. The cycle just continues.
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