The key phrase was “plausible deniability.” In the last few generations we’ve made progress in reconciling our sexuality with our non-sexual personae, but we ain’t all the way there yet.
FWIW, I’m against it. While I’m heartened to see women begin to ask for good sex, I think it’s generally distorts the local economy and distracts young people when they should be building sustainable job skills. Easy money generally isn’t a good thing when you are trying to develop an economy.
I always thought it would be easier for women to get a good sex.
It might be easier for women to get a sex, but that doesn’t mean it’s easier for them to get a good sex. A good sex measured by their criteria, not what you think their criteria should be.
And for most women, a good sex requires lots of conditions that lots of men are not interested in providing.
“Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute.”
Nope. Men who go around looking for easy sex are generally not particularly focused on pleasing their partners- especially if those partners are not particularly attractive. Easy sex is often selfish, sloppy, quick, boring sex. It may scratch an itch for both parties, but its not the same as an attentive, partner-focused lover.
Nor is it easy for unattractive women to get attractive sex partners. Sure, most reasonable looking 23 year olds could probably find a decent looking guy, but women’s sex drivers don’t disappear when they start getting old. And a 58 year old women are no more interested in wrinkled, balding, tubby men than 58 year old men are interested in wrinkled, balding, tubby women.
I was kind of wondering some more about it, thinking in what ways it might be bad. This was something I was wondering about. But then, to some extent, doesn’t that go for certain parts of the tourist industry anyway? Easy money, not building sustainable job skills? The other options for these young guys are basically cleaning for a hotel, or taking tourists on ridiculous “tours”. Maybe there are other options, but that’s what almost everybody seemed to do.
These guys I met were certainly nothing like the image we have of sad, female prostitutes, oppressed, working for a pimp or nasty brothel, never going to get out etc. It was… more of a thing on the side, they were saving, sometimes training as an apprentice, often starting up a little business. It didn’t seem to me like that hopeless, stifling situation that seems typical of prostitution.
I dunno… 
Update. There was a new story in the Bangkok Post on December 30 called “Turnabout Is Foreplay.” Despite being a mainstream newspaper, the story and photos can be considered NSFW, so the link is in the spoiler box:
Gheh, thanks! Reading that (though I didn’t read it all, it’s looong) does make me worry about exploitation etc though. I hope it finds a good balance.
Thank you, Khun Sam! Journalism at its finest.
African dudes? Aren’t African savages generally mal-nutritioned and/or rebels with guns?
Or did you mean muscular and lean white South African footballers?
It’s most likely due to the shock that sexual favors for money is a wide spread industry, as opposed to just a thing that you find on dark corners in bad neighborhoods.
Your brain conjures up images of airlines advertising vacation packages with recreational benefits of which include sexual favors.
To answer the question, yes it’s wrong - if not for the morality, for the fact it enables young (and older ) women to basically spread their legs to get through life.
People always looking for a short cut …
Whuh? 
I especially liked the Thai lady who bought a dildo in Hong Kong, and the airport security official at the airport in Hong Kong who discovered it in her carry-on asking: "‘Is this going to be a security risk?’’