JITTRAPON KAICOME
PHOTOJOURNALIST

NO BAD WOMAN, JUST BAD LAWS!!

Sex workers in Thailand are opposed to the current legislation on prostitution and are pushing for the decriminalisation of sex work.

In Chiang Mai, Can Do Bar, a watering hole which runs by sex workers to obtain their social benefits with fair treatment between sex workers and customers. In the day time, they are working as a human right defender rebelling against the prostitution law which creates inequality in Thai society and providing educations to empowering female sex workers.

A message from these two pieces in the game of Jenta telling that these two words have been unfair to sex workers. In a working condition, sex workers have been abused by the unfair rules set by the business owner forcing them to dress in a certain way, consume alcohol at work, salary reduction if weight gain found, overtime pay is not paid at the minimum wage of the law.

Laws and policy help make the prostitution illegal social have the conceptual box that sex working is a low-level job and those are people having no dignity. These negative attitudes towards sex workers bring about a big gap of inequality in the society.