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I also think it's ridiculous to blame farangs for driving prices up, when it's the Asians (Japanese, in particular) who are best known for tipping big and demanding little in return. If you want cheap sex, there's always Sanam Luang.
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Not that it has anything to do with the rate sex workers charge, especially those targeting tourists, of course.
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You mean the median daily rate is even lower than 500 baht ? On the contrary, it has some relationship with the sex rate. It is called opportunity cost, they cannot earn higher if they demand exorbitant rate much higher than most of what their fellow countrymen gets. The median daily rate determines food cost, transport cost etc. of a country. So it is the rich Europeans/American/Japanese who are driving sex prices up in Thailand. These workers DON'T work in european/american countries, they work in Thailand where the customers can be local Thai or from neighbouring asian countries with comparable living standard. Let me give you an analogy... How would you feel if foreigners from a richer country eg. japanese buy up all the properties in a certain European country, driving prices up and left all the locals without a home to live ? .....
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Yes. Thailand's income inequality is significant, just have a look at the Gini coefficient. Most members of the Thai workforce earn a wage that is close to the minimum wage, while few top earners get a huge chunk of the overall wages paid.
Sure, there's a relationship: You'd expect sex workers in, let's say, the U.S. to demand more than in Thailand, because the overall price level is higher there. That's obviously the case. But, in both countries, sex workers ask way more than the minimum (or even median) wage. So, for example, saying that a Tawan guy should be happy with 1,000 baht per night because the daily median rate is below 500 baht doesn't make any sense.
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If the median rate is say 400 baht per day. Giving a 1000 baht per hour is already quite reasonable. That would make it 8000 baht per day which is 20 times the median rate. How much does a sex worker in USA get when compare with their median rate ? Is it 200 USD per hour ? What is their median salary ? 100 USD per day ? That is only 16 times the median rate. assuming 8 hours work per day. So the prices that Thai people pay for their sex workers is exorbitant. In Tawan, that would be 2000 baht for half an hour or 4000 baht for one hour. Anyone living in the USA who can confirm the sex rates and median daily wages above ?
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Dude...no amount of formulating is going to help you get sex from Tawan guys any more cheaply. As I've said, they are a limited commodity targeting a small number of dedicated fetishists who are happy to pay whatever it costs. It's a market-based price, not one based on any factor of average income you are going to come up with.
If you want a standard prostitue, there are many who will go short time with you for 500 baht. If you absolutely must have a muscle man, you'll simply have to pay the price. Don't know what else to tell you.
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