What is one solution to the problem of prostitution?

Thailand is recognized as a place where sex for pay is easily available and there are many prostitutes in Thailand. One solution to the problem of prostitution is that prostitution should be legalized by the government in order to promote better health, stop criminal activity, work against child prostitution and should pay for itself through tax collection. First, prostitutes should be registered as sex workers. According to the research by Dr Nitet Tinnakul from Chulalongkorn University, it is reported there are “a total of 2.8 million sex workers in Thailand, including two million women, 20,000 adult males and 800,000 minors under the age of 18”. These data show that the number of sex workers is higher than that of some professions in which there is a shortage, such as doctors or nurses. Second, after prostitutes are legalized, the government can collect their income taxes, which the website shows could be quite high, for example, “one estimate published in 2003 placed the trade at US$ 4.3 billion per year, about three percent of the Thai economy”. Therefore, income tax from prostitution would help the government to provide health screening for sex workers and attempt to eliminate criminal activity in the sex industry. For example, blood testing every few weeks and giving a certificate which is issued by a government organization could be paid for from taxes collected. This would help prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STD), HIV, hepatitis or syphilis and more. As another example, criminal actions will be decreased because the government can check the profile of the sex worker so that it is difficult for him or her to get away from investigation. Third, from the research above, about thirty five percent of the prostitutes are minors, under 18 years old. Legalization would help law enforcement prevent minors from working as prostitutes. Also, some prostitutes are confined almost like slaves in the brothels. It would not be easy to change the laws and to register prostitutes, but it would be one step toward solving the problem in Thailand.







Source:
The Nation, PROSTITUTION: More Thais selling sex, study finds, Jan 3, 2004.

Trendy or Tradition?

I found this article on Internet. It says about Mona Lisa painting that Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them. Shaving hair remains in any societies, age, sex, and periods such as, a Thai student in high school, he shaves his hair instead of keeping his hairstyle along to the regulated of school rules, so shaving his hair is an outstanding to keep an attraction. I think shaving eyebrows may attract people in that era too. Nowadays, many women like to extend their hair to attract people. For example, in MBK shopping mall, you can find many beauty shops have TV screen in front of the shop to broadcast the operation of extending woman’s eyelash. Now we have no new fad to change the values of extending. Shall we shave our eyelash? To be a leader of the new eyelash fashion style.

A strange thing in MS Word

Copy the phrase below


=rand(20)


Then, place it on Microsoft Word. Next, press enter and see what will happen.
Do you know why it happens like that? I'm curious!!

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" It is a short sentence that uses all the letters of the English alphabet.


I got this information in a forwarded e-mail.

Finally, we have to make a blog!

I arrived at the reading and writing IV class 5 minutes late this morning. The class had decided that everyone will make their own blog to practice writing skills. But, I have never done a blog before so this is the first message that I try to post and will see how it works, although it is challenging to do something that one never did before. Pleace read my blog and do not hesitate to comment. Thank you.