A girl is lured into prostitution without really knowing what it is, because it is removed from village life. The girl thinks she is helping her family�s living conditions when a brothel�s agent draws up a contract with her parents.
The reality of the debt burden induced by her pimp is too overwhelming to ever repay, because the original rules of the contract are bent. The girl is coerced, through beatings and rape at first as punishment for trying to run away, into having sex with 10 to 18 men per night, and later her expectation of the same is reinforced. You would pay about 2,000 baht (�30) for short time. The girl earns an equivalent of �8 per customer, or Thai 400 baht.
Greed for profit results in the youngest looking and most pretty girls, attracting a higher price. For those who cannot get a higher price for sex, their debt increases at a more precipitous rate. At the above rate of 400 baht, a young girl must have sex with 300 men per month for her room, which costs 30,000 baht (�470), and for her food and drink, for medicine fees including HIV-testing, and for fines incurred if a customer is displeased. She is required to send 10,000 baht (�155) per month home to her parents, keeping this part of the original contract, and visit with family on holidays, both of which serve to keep her locked into prostitution, and a personal debt.
The emotional cost to the girl is so devastating that over time and repeated exposure she becomes resigned to her fate, reduced to surviving it.