400 words for answer 6 question
Sexual Encounters
For this class you were supposed to read Heather Montgomery's Buying Innocence: child-sex tourists in Thailand
. After reading this article, please briefly answer the following questions:
1. Why does Montgomery argue that the term "sex tourist" is extremely difficult to define?
2. Why does Montgomery argue that conflation of the terms "sex tourist" and "child sex tourist" (or "pedophile") is problematic?
3. In what ways does Montgomery argue that many the middle class women's organizations that fight child prostitution in Thailand are, at some level, self-serving?
4. What reasons do Thai children give for becoming sex workers?
5. How do Thai children seek to exert agency in these situations?
6. What does Montgomery argue is the difference between the child sex workers she interviewed in Baan Nua, and those who are typically hired by foreign tourists in the bars in Bangkok?