Forum Rules. My Replies My Profile. Results 1 to 8 of 8. Add Thread to del. Inside the brothel of No. Some are even sent to the popular tourist resort of Phuket, with around Burmese girls currently working as prostitutes in their brothel alone. Thidar herself is a former vegetable seller from Rangoon's Insein Township. She was approached 10 years ago in her local market by a Burmese woman who told her that she could make good money at a restaurant in Kawthaung, the Burmese border town on the opposite side to Ranong.
So at the tender age of 15, she left her mother and stepfather and was taken from Rangoon to Kawthaung with two female companions of a similar age. Upon arrival in Kawthaung she was kept in a restaurant sealed with curtains for two days, but ran away after being forced into sex with a Burmese man.
But the lady followed me and brought me back from the police saying I would be sent home to Rangoon. A few days later, she was taken with some other young girls to Ranong in a small boat and sold to a Thai brothel owner in the neighborhood of Paukkhaung. When I woke up, I found myself naked and smeared with blood. Even since then, she has been working as a prostitute and now has two children fathered by a Mon fisherman who died at sea during a storm.
These prostitutes' income depends on the number of customers they receive. For a single instance of sexual intercourse the brothel owner charges a customer baht, of which the worker only receives half.
According to Thidar and her fellow workers, poverty and lack of care by their own parents were main reasons why they were tricked by human traffickers and forced into prostitution. Ei Ei, in her 20s, the daughter of a sea gypsy family in Kawthaung, said she hates her mother who never sent her to school and did not look after her properly. She added that she held various jobs to support the family ever since childhood. She was later approached by a prostitution broker and first arrived in a Ranong brothel five years ago.
