Below is a statement in response to the anti-prostitution activists' "International Day of No Prostitution" from sex workers in Thailand. Stay tuned for a U.S. statement and more!

Bad Girls and Boyz from Asia/Pacific
A CALL FOR VISIBILITY of INTERNATIONAL PROSTITUTES

Statement 1

The Day with on Crime in Prostitution

We are Bad girls from Asia.

We'd like to call for the feminist in western country to look through reality where other millions of the female population in the other part of the world are living.

Female population in Asia, Africa are working and struggling so hard to fight against difficulties for a day to day living. They are born without basic needs, no house, no medication, neither cloth nor food. For those who are the fighter, they are the leaders of family and the frontline of working population whose the feminist calls BREAD MAKER.

Bread Maker in sex industry shall be protected against exploitation and sexually abused.

There are only two types of sex in human society, paid sex and unpaid sex.

People will have choice for his or her own sex, but there shall not be exploitation neither abused in both two types. Or another words people will have choices to take what they want "LOVING SEX or WORKING SEX".

Prostitution alone is no harm but CRIME in prostitution is harmful.

This different perspective between west and east or north and south is common. However, we ëžwomen want to combine the differences since in the outside world women are always excluded and put in limited space.

Therefore, we prostitutes want to be visible and acceptable. We are existed and we are all over the world making bread for our family.

The International Day must be for the PROSTITUTE'S DAY to VISIBLE EXISTING OF PROSTITUTES rather than to invisible our people.

We are professional and expert we are not diseases, neither criminal why stop us or get rid of us.

There must be PROSTITUTION but there must not be CRIME in prostitution.

Bad Girls and Boyz from Asia & Pacific.

Good Girls Go To Heaven Bad Girls Go Everywhere

Statement 2

The day of PROFESSION

I am from..

I am a poor people
I make a living from hand to mouth
I have father
I have mother, brother, sister, aunt, grandpa and grandma
I grow rice
I grow potatoes
I raise chickens, pigs, cows and buffalos
I cut corn
I sew leather ware
I build high-rise building
I do house work, take care children, feed birds and dogs
I offer food to the monk
I ordain my older brother and send younger brother to soldier
I pray for the Lord

I go to school, primary and secondary level
I am a college student
I study law, philosophy, politic
I go to the movies, watch TV
I play sport
I go shopping
I go to the bank

I have son
I take my son to the zoo, the beach
I take a bus, sometimes a train
I sing a song, dance
I serve food
I do massages
I go with customers
I get pay
I work
I am a sex worker

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