After reading through and catching up....I'm starting to second-guess myself.. the first post I made, I believe was respectful and had the honest good intentions of just voicing my thoughts and opinions.. I hope nobody thinks that I just crept out of the woodwork to partake in the drama...I have many times wanted to post in various other threads over the last year..but my posts tend to get way too verbose..and so they never make it past the "preview and edit"stage. :roll:
Though I did do some speculating of my own, it was all done in a non-malicious & non-gossip way... I hope that's the way it came through.
Anyway, bear with me
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I think both sides are missing something..
On the one side - I believe we have ALL done something(s) that we maybe shouldn't have, that we regret, that we wish we would have thought through a bit better, that was so out of character.. maybe even things that were illegal. If you think you have never ever done anything wrong then you are either in denial or perfect (and if you think you are the latter..then I hate to break it to you, but you are the former!)
I already mentioned drugs in the first post and since it's not confirmed at all who was using or not, I'll just stick to the camming aspect in this post. While I fully agree that it was irresponsible to be living/operating a porn studio in a country where there are harsh penalties for this..and that she should have maybe considered the potential consequences for her children if things were to go sour...It's not my place to judge. It's easy to say " pfft I would never put MY kid through that!" but we don't know the situation at all personally, we don't know the thought process that went behind the decision. A friend of a friend years ago did something that shocked me..I couldn't understand how anyone could be...so...horribly brainless! Until I found out the background to the situation, and realized there was much more going on there than it looked on the outside.
On the other side ...Thai Police and all that. They're just doing their job. Yes, it's known that they're corrupt. But they are in the right here. Do I think there should be laws where women are penalized for having sex/doing sex shows?? No, it's none of the law's business what women do as long as it's consensual and not hurting anyone...but that's entirely irrelevant and besides the point. It doesn't matter what we believe, what our culture dictates,what laws our country upholds.. because this was Thailand and it's NOT our country.
We would expect foreigners to respect our laws when they come into our country, whether they agree with them or not..am I right?? Well, then the respect goes both ways. Nobody is forcing camgirls to come to/live in Thailand. The laws are publicly known and if we don't like it, we shouldn't go..or risk getting in trouble. It seems ridiculous to us that they would do a raid because of camming.. but to them that's how it goes. And the prosecution of sex related situations isn't there just completely out of the blue without precedent. Many Westerners/foreign men come to Thailand to exploit and take advantage of young, naive and desperate Thai girls...offering them money for unprotected sex to be filmed... to the point where Thailand is infamous for its young sex workers.
TL;DR version:
-*-We've all made mistakes that were foolish, stupid, selfish, hurtful, mindless, harsh...It's easy to judge other people's mistakes...but remember that other people will find it Just as easy to judge yours...
-*- I think while we can disagree with the laws in Thailand, we need to still respect them.
Sorry that I write so much in one post...I really can't help it...: :crybaby:
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