Ethics of Sex Tourism in Thailand: Finnish Tourists’ Stance to Prostitution and Human Trafficking
Peltonen, Aino (2016)
Saimaan ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201604084069
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201604084069
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This thesis researches attitudes, justifications and judgements of sex tourists towards responsible travelling, sex tourism, prostitution, prostitutes and human trafficking. The aim was to find out how sex tourists are thinking about the con-cepts related to the phenomena.
The research was executed by surveying using quantitative research method via webropol.com. The questionnaire was spread in discussion forums regard-ing sex and sex tourism. The questionnaire generated altogether 75 responses mostly by sex tourists, however some of them were not used due to problems with data collection. Responses were by all of the targeted age groups, from 18 years to 55 and older.
The research results indicated that the sex tourists are of all ages, and general attitude towards all those concepts is accepting. Sex tourists are judging exploi-tation and abuse towards prostitutes but see their occupation as acceptable as any other. Younger sex tourists are looking for fun and are not looking for a du-rable relationship, while middle-aged are more open for a relationship that has started in Thailand with a prostitute.
The research was executed by surveying using quantitative research method via webropol.com. The questionnaire was spread in discussion forums regard-ing sex and sex tourism. The questionnaire generated altogether 75 responses mostly by sex tourists, however some of them were not used due to problems with data collection. Responses were by all of the targeted age groups, from 18 years to 55 and older.
The research results indicated that the sex tourists are of all ages, and general attitude towards all those concepts is accepting. Sex tourists are judging exploi-tation and abuse towards prostitutes but see their occupation as acceptable as any other. Younger sex tourists are looking for fun and are not looking for a du-rable relationship, while middle-aged are more open for a relationship that has started in Thailand with a prostitute.