Prostitution in Laos is known as a criminal activity and become the subject to severe prosecution, while this number is less than neighboring Thailand. Some of the women choose Laos is the main destination but others choose Thailand to work as a sex worker due to the higher profits. Therefore, Laos has become as a source country for women and girls trafficked to commercial sexual exploitation in Thailand.
It can deny that poverty in Laos is the main cause of increased prostitution in Laos. Definitely, the Laos border is adjacent to Thailand, the country is famous about the sex. Nothing to say that brothels are prohibited by Lao law. Most of the places of entertainment employed the female wax worker as the hostesses, such as beer bars, drink shop, karaoke bars, nightclubs, guest houses, and restaurants.
Although they serve beer and snacks, they also sell sex. Although the law of Laos does not contain penalties for child prostitution, there will have the penalty for sex with a child with a fine of In recent years, a general increase in tourism in the country and a concomitant rise in child sex tourism in Southeast Asia. Actually, it very hard to understand this situation, but it exists in Laos. When they hire a room in a hotel, for gay sex, they can easily share your room with others. If a tourist wants to date with a local might meet with some negative reaction because folks will assume the local person is a sex trade worker.
Theoretically, sex between tourists and local is against the law but this hardly ever enforced. Many individuals said that the fear of going to health facilities for treatment due to social discrimination regarding pre-marital sex and clinicians negative attitudes toward this disease.
However, the Lao still lack much knowledge, although they are adjacent to the information on radio or television. That is really difficult with the rural areas. In the report, they estimated that between 0. After a decade, this number seems not to decrease, take 0. In , they estimate that the number of women aged 15 living with HIV decrease much more than the past buy the punish of Laos law.
