There are strippers, bar girls, sex-show performers and 'freelancers' such as Sa.
Generalising about Pattaya's sex workers and their clients is fraught. Sex industry provides economic boom, opportunities 'I want a man to take care of me and my family so I don't have to work for a long time,' she said. The 27-year-old, who sends the majority of her earnings to her family, said she was ultimately looking for a western man to marry. While such issues are not exclusive to any one group, Sa said she preferred European customers - particularly Russian men, who she said paid the highest rates. 'When I argued with him, he hit me in the face.' 'I went with him for one hour and then he said he wasn't going to pay me.
In 2015, Four Corners investigated the sex industry's illegal off-shoot, where are women brought to Australia.
