In thailand, the sex trade is huge and you can get what you want.
I was warned by my NCOs to take the long way home from the bar at which we were drinking. The short way went through the section that had young Thai men dressed up as women. The number of bars and strip clubs with women was too numerous to count.
I know there is some great places to go diving in Thailand like where the Tsunami happened. However, too many Westerners go to places like Pattaya, which means these bars and strip clubs have to go out and find workers for these places. The workers come from small villages to help raise money for their families.
The benefit of going with the Army was I had translators who could speak Laotian and Thai since they were similiar. It helped so we find out where the average Thai goes to do nomal things in Thai other than visit the bars, and strip clubs. After a couple of days in Pattaya, I was ready to go home.
It was an interesting place and I did want to visit some Buddhist temples