Museum in Bangkok about Thai sex industry
Access is by appointment only and this museum supports a good cause, namely advocating the rights of women working in the Thai sex industry.
In the museum on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand's famous sex industry is on display in full regalia. Stripper poles, condoms and sex toys are on display, but there is also room for information and education.
The 68-year-old Chantawipa Apisuk (see photo), founder of the charity organization Empower, wants sex workers in Thailand to get more rights. “It's normal work,” she says. “Sex workers are not victims.”
The museum displays a painting of a 400-year-old Chinese ship. The sailors paid the prostitutes with buckets of rice. “Sex work was legal at the time,” Apisuk says. “It cost 15 kilograms of rice. That is now about 1050 baht. So the price has hardly changed. ”
You can read more about the museum and Empower's work at the source: http://goo.gl/2dy9Op
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