I read a book about autobiography about a sex worker for my Ethnic Groups of Thailand class. After running away from her home in rural Ubon at 13 to make more money for her family, she became very actively involved in the strip bars and bega selling her body for more money than she could have made any other way without a high school diploma. While working as a prostitute and porn model for many years, she gained a number of traits like depression, pharmaceutical dependencies, financial responsibility for her entire family, and fluency in English. After a series of failed relationships with farang men, she worked hard to get out of the sex industry in order to clean up her life and discover the value of her own life. She mentions that she became a tour guide and a travel agent to make better money, though it hardly compared to the thousands of dollars she made per month selling herself to wealthy foreigners.
Her story probably resonates with thousands of women who join the sex industry each year, and also with those who are lucky enough to get out of it. It makes sense that prostitutes would become travel agents, because they have years of experience selling their personalities to tourists.
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