The number of old sex tourists in Bangkok is insane

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I am currently in Bangkok and the number of sex tourists here is insane. I'm staying in an area close to Lumphini Park and noticed that there are so many old white dudes (usually ugly and completely out of shape) hanging out with one, two or even three local girls with a sexy outfit. In the bars, it's also full of single old (ugly) white dudes drinking and seeking to be entertained by these girls. Other girls just stand by on the street, looking for a lonely old white dude who had no chance back home.

It's such a heavy stuff that I don't really want to see during a vacation, because it reminds me of everything wrong in this world given that there is a power relation and exploitation involved (the dudes obviously fly to Thailand to take advantage of young, desperate women. Many of these women have no choice or are desperately poor. You don't see old out of shape Thai guys flying to Sweden to find young beautiful blonde Swedish girls). But it seems like given the area where I stay, there is no avoiding it. I went to a nice Thai place by the street and I saw an old dude with 2 women totally fixated on him (the women don't talk to each other, so it's obvious what kind of relationship they have). More older guys with younger women came as time passes. I then decided to go to the rooftop bar of the hotel. You still see the same, and when I was taking the elevator down, there were three old dudes with younger women talking about "the room is cold but I will wear a bikini" and the older dude started to massage her. I felt really creeped out.

Hopefully I won't see the same thing again tomorrow when I visit exclusively the cultural sites.