"American Pie" was a low brow comedy. And Thailand? They are shocked by the site of 2 men kissing there? I thought that was a significant portion of the tourist trade (not to impune your reasons for being there, saying it should not be a shock to them considering all that is around them).
Well the shocked parties were the other foreigners, namely some Brits. And while Thailand is a sleaze pot, it is at the same time a very conservative society, so while down on hooker alley (and around here many streets are hooker alley) they would not blink, in other parts they are upset, not by the existence of such images, but by their public display in what they thought would be clean entertainment.
Ideas on sex for money are complicated. Many women are turned out of the house at 18, so I'm told, and have no skills, this country is still very poor. One guy I talked to said he asked a girl if she wouldn't rather do something else and she replied "But who will take care of me?". But educated Thai society, and the people who take care of and live around the huge number of Buddhist temples, would never want to be associated with the lower sort of things, so it is both a conservative and a raunchy society, at the same time.
Personally I'm here to study Plato, ;-)
And also take pictures, some of which you can
see here,and
here, and
here.
That's what I don't get! The nations that hate ours are mostly cesspools that stink of urine and excrement on a hot day. The envy of a peasant or near peasant class who think we are wealthy because we have stolen it from them somehow explains t*rd world (non-Muzzie) hatred. The hatred of the intellectual is explained by their being overwhelmingly leftist and that we were in the way of establishing the socialist paradise. The hatred of the Muslim world is self-explanitory. I believe none of this hatred is justified, therefore, there is nothing to understand here. We certainly ought not to go thru some kind of self-flagelation, since these America-haters represent the scum of all the earth.