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Originally published Aug. 3, 2009
It’s an often heard charge and foreigners swinging into Bangkok keep on blaming themselves to this day, at least some:
Since the mid-1960′s, when U.S. soldiers arrived from Nam for serious R&R, Thai officials keep lamenting the decline in morality.
American soldiers had a good time in Bangkok, business for massage parlors was booming — and innocence died.
The fishbowl was born.
Not that to this day most supply caters for the local market, but, well, sense of guilt is a major ingredient of the Occidental:
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