Entry I wrote some time ago but didn't posted

[oakfarm]

I read the page for the movie Mammuth (2009) on tvtropes. In a way that movie is ritch-western-man-who-has-everything-poor-Asians-who-have-nothing-but-their-bodies the movie. Two things written on tvtropes that I never would have thought myself. One, they say that in one way the Thai prostitute was the lucky mom, since she was the only mom in the film beeing close to her child. Two, spoilers, I thought the American internet-millionaire hanging out with the Thai prostitute was a good guy until the second he (unpanned) had sex with her. But the two of them spend a whole day together before that, that’s the “girlfriend-experience” and that too, was work for her. I don’t know, one have always been told buying sex is a very bad crime. Therefore one think he goes from good to bad in the second they undress. But yeah, if just hanging out with the guy was work for her, he shouldn’t have done that either?

It reminds me the handful of times beggars have started talking to me, they within seconds makes sure they talk to you not because they want to be your friend, and definitivt not since they want to be your lover, but because they want your money. The Thai woman in the movie, took him in s tour of the island without ever mention money.

Comments

[wantedonvoyage]

Even if she's a sex worker by necessity, she may have actually enjoyed his company/been attracted to him.

And even if he pays for women's company, he may not be a terrible person.

I didn't see the movie but it could be more complicated than a simple transaction.

[oakfarm]

The thing might be that the sex industry is a sensitiv subject and poeple see it in black and white.