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Hookers In Vietnam
Prostitution during the Vietnam War in photographs of the 1960s and 1970s
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During the Vietnam War, a whole sex industry for American servicemen emerged. Moths gathered in bars where Americans often had fun and offered their services. After the war, about 50 thousand children of American-Vietnamese origin were born, who were mockingly called bui doi (translated as "the dirt of life").
Many Vietnamese women were forced into prostitution against their will, lured by promises of well-paid work while the country was torn apart by war. Of course, most women practically did not see money — they were taken away by pimps or owners of bars where American soldiers gathered. Sometimes women were injected with silicone so that their figures became more curvy and Americans felt "at home" with Asian women.
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And since Cracked has developed a habit of interviewing prostitutes over the last year for totally official reasons and not at all because we need somebody to hold us while we cry, we decided to speak with Diem Phu Nu. Diem was a Ho Chi Minh City moped prostitute.
1. Many Families Are Perfectly Fine With Prostitution
For poorer women like me, prostitution is seen as a fairly acceptable way to get income. I started when I was 15, not because we were starving and needed groceries (although I did help them out on expenses)
I simply wanted some spending money, and part-time prostitution was a way to get it. I had a lot of English-speaking clients who wanted to take me to dinner as part of the escort experience, so I got free meals, too.
It may seem tragic to you, but I was OK with it, and so was my family. The street caller who got clients for me was a family friend, and he looked out for me.
An unexpected fringe benefit: Many of my clients were talkers, and that wound up helping me out a lot in school. I got top grades in English thanks to all the practice I got with clients. You can study quietly in a library, or you can study while having sex and getting paid for it. Seemed like a better deal to me.
It’s really only tourists who look down on us for it. One white woman passed me and an older guy holding hands in the street once and told us that “we should be ashamed of ourselves.” But he was satisfying his sexual desires, while I consented and was getting money to save up for a moped. I certainly didn’t feel ashamed or abused while hooking; I felt like I was 62 percent of the way to a bitchin’ scooter.
2. You Can’t Just Start Selling Your Body
You may think that starting work as a prostitute is as easy as dressing sexily and actually accepting those lewd offers the guys are yelling at you anyway. But without a “caller,” you’ll be lost.
Callers are basically those guys who twirl around big arrow signs to get people into mattress stores and pizza joints, but for sex workers.
No, they don’t dance on the street corners while spinning vagina-shaped signs — they call out to passing tourists and carefully screen prospective clients. Each one knows what the prostitutes they represent can handle.
For example: They’ll avoid pairing most of us with heavyset people. Many Vietnamese women are small, so a large, heavy man will be a problem.
If the client persists and asks for us specifically, they will have to meet us for dinner rather than riding with us straight to the destination. That’s not because we hate them — fat tourists on mopeds are more of a physics problem than a moral one.
The established callers all have their own turf, and they’ll chase away any unrepresented prostitute they see working their area. Other areas are absolutely filled with moped-straddling hookers already, and thus the market is as saturated as …
I’m not going to finish that analogy, for all our sakes.
3. We Truly Care About The Customer Experience
In Thailand, for example, prostitution sounds like a pretty straightforward business:
Direct “tab a” into “slot b.” 2. Collect money. Like an ATM
But, at least in my city, a surprising amount of thought goes into pairing each customer with the best prostitute for his wants and needs. We’re a service industry, and just because we’re literally servicing our customers doesn’t mean we phone it in.
Say the client gets waved over to a caller. It’s not like a taxi stand, where you hop into the first available opening. The caller and the client speak for a while first. Sometimes clients have specific wants — anything from a classy escort experience to hardcore BDSM.
Then their preference is divided into age, figure, sex, and ethnicity. It’s like building your own video game character, only you get to fuck it once you’re done.
After the caller finds out exactly what the client wants, only then does he contact the most fitting available prostitute. For longer negotiations, the caller might even stop at a drink stand and treat the client to some booze.
The customer gets their free drunk on, while the street caller talks it over with the girls until a decision is reached upon who, exactly, is the best prostitute for the job at hand .
4. The Rivalry With Massage Parlors Can Get Ugly
Many massage parlors here are fronts for sex. There’s no dinner, no conversation or getting to know each other a little first — just straight to the “show.” That’s why the more traditional prostitutes in Saigon see massage girls as whores. ( Ed. Note: If you’re confused by that distinction, join the club. )
Of course, I’m sure the massage girls think we’re whores because we don’t even throw a friendly massage in first.
When the caller for a moped prostitute and a pamphlet girl for a massage parlor get too close, things can explode. And not in a sexy, euphemistic way. Callers will knock the pamphlets out of the girls’ hands; the girls will kick over the bikes of a rival.
There’s a parlor very near my room, and full-on fights over clients aren’t at all uncommon. It’s like a parody porno of The Warriors out there.
5. The Police Actually Protect The Prostitutes
Prostitution is not only an expected part of the culture here, but a huge aspect of our tourism industry. Yes, prostitutes can be arrested, but only when they are found to be part of a trafficking ring or are committing another crime while doing it.
Otherwise, it’s winked at heavily by law enforcement. In fact, the police do more than look the other way — they protect us better than any pimp could. I mean, you won’t see “Ho Chi Minh Police: Way Better Than Pimps” emblazoned on their badges or anything, but they have our backs.
We have each other’s backs, too. If someone tries to go to a moped prostitute’s apartment, they’ll find that all of the neighboring apartments are also filled with prostitutes, as well as an owner who can come and pin down the abuser.
Clients who get aggressive can look forward to being dogpiled by call girls, and while that does sound like a hell of a lot of fun, I can assure you it is less so in practice.
The police have no qualms with punishing tourists caught abusing women, and they can totally be reported to American authorities. One of my customers threatened me with a pocket knife when I was 16, and after I yelled out my code word, there were police on the scene in a couple of minutes (Without so much as asking if I was a prostitute, let alone arresting me).
The man was deported the next day, and last I heard, was arrested on arrival in the United States.
There’s this misconception that sex tourists can do whatever they want in other countries with impunity, as though that country wouldn’t protect its own people over a sexually-frustrated rug salesman from Albuquerque.
NOTE: Diem retired as a prostitute shortly after our interview and opened a moped accessory shop in Ho Chi Minh City.
Evan V. Symon is the interview finder guy at Cracked and asked over 40 prostitutes before finding one willing to talk with him about being a prostitute.

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Although technically illegal, prostitution is widespread in Vietnam. AFP reported: "Hair salons, karaoke bars and massage parlors offering "additional services" are abundant in the political capital Hanoi, as they are in other cities across the country. State employees often celebrate national festivals and success at work with an evening out on the town, which usually involves copious quantities of alcohol, a slap-up feast and an evening in a karaoke bar followed by further "after hours" entertainment. Mini-hotels are the favored place for illicit bedroom entertainment . [Source: Agence France Presse, July 14, 2003 +=+]
According to the Encyclopedia of Sexuality: After the Viet Cong occupation of Saigon, the new government tried to eliminate prostitution by closing brothels and sending prostitutes to work or to so-called reeducation centers. Between 1975 and 1985, 14,304 prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City were sent to those centers. The Government claimed that prostitution was eradicated in the South by 1985. But as Stephanie Fahey (1998) remarked: "In a country where the Communist Party attempted to eradicate prostitution and pornography, prostitutes are now found in almost every bar, restaurant and hotel whether private or state-owned." According to statistics from the Department of Criminal Police, Ministry of the Interior, in the first six months of 1990, Vietnam had 40,000 prostitutes and 1,000 brothels. By the first six months of 1993, there were 200,000 prostitutes and 2,000 brothels. [Source: Encyclopedia of Sexuality */ ]
A report prepared by SCF (Save the Children Fund) in 1995 estimated that there were 149 brothels in Ho Chi Minh City alone. Many of the establishments are, officially, bars selling beer to Vietnamese clients. According to one recent unofficial estimate (Khuat Thu Hong 1998), there may be half a million sex workers in all of Vietnam, not including the increasing number of male prostitutes in the southern provinces and the big northern cities. Government Resolutions 53, 87, and 88, passed in 1994 and 1995, strengthen management over cultural activities and monitor the struggle against the so-called social evils, including prostitution, gambling, and drug use. */
Although prostitution is illegal in Vietnam, because of economic problems it is again becoming the booming business it was during the Vietnam War. But tourists report that because of corruption, the interpretation of the law is quite broad. Some of the girls who are looking for customers and are talking to tourists are agent provocateurs for corrupt policemen who force the foreigner to pay large sums to "avoid an incident." On the other hand, there are also police actions to clean up streets and districts with known prostitution, as Cooper and Hanson (1998) were told by a madam. */
The Bamboo Bar in the Metrople Hotel in Hanoi was run for a while by madame who serviced mostly Communist Party officials. The illegitimate son of one Vietnamese prostitute inherited $35 million when DNA testing showed that his father was Larry Lee Hillbloom, the founder of the DHL courier service, who died in a seaplane crash in May 1995 an left behind an estate of $550 million.
In late 2002, state media estimated the country had around 37,000 prostitutes though the authorities had official records on only 14,000. Some say the true figure is over 130,000. By one estimate at one time there were over 50,000 prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City alone. Vietnamese prostitutes operate in bars, cafés, massage parlors, karaokes, hotels and on the streets. Some even pursue potential customers on motorscooters. Those that work at hotels often come knocking on hotel room doors about 10:00pm. Those that work from motorbike, first drive by a potential customers, followed by her pimp who asks the potential client if he is interested.
According to the Encyclopedia of Sexuality: Two types of social networks are most common in the sex workers: peer and friend relations. They often work together in groups of two to five at a site, and this site remains fixed for a number of prostitutes for an extended period of time, from several months to a year or two. Many prostitutes are organized in groups for protection, or they may become friends. As a result of these social groupings, newcomers may be bullied by older prostitutes. They often make friends with a man who is referred to as their "boyfriend" (bo ruot). He may be a familiar client or a man who lives with the prostitute in a hired room and can protect her during work. Prostitutes have sexual relations with clients, boyfriends, and husbands. The average number of sexual contacts of the ten prostitutes interviewed by Bao, Long, and Taylor (1998) was twenty-three per month, some having forty or fifty. [Source: Encyclopedia of Sexuality */ ]
The reasons for women to become sex workers remain the same as during the Vietnam War and in other developing countries where there are few opportunities in rural areas and low wages in the jobs open for uneducated girls. Poverty is not the sole reason pushing women into prostitution. Family conflicts and their feeling of hopelessness about their husbands or boyfriends are also important reasons. The women interviewed by Cooper and Hanson (1998) stated that they were much better off now than in their villages. */
HIV/AIDS infections are rising fast among drug users and sex workers. Around 40 percent of an estimated 300,000 HIV/AIDS cases are sex workers and those who combine drug use and the sex trade. In 2007, Xinhua reported: "Surveys in some cities and provinces of Vietnam show that 13 percent of prostitutes are aged under 18, according to local newspaper Youth. Some 42.4 percent of prostitutes are in the age bracket of 18-25, the newspaper quoted a report presented by Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan. [Source: Associated Press, September 6, 2002]
Jacobus X. (1898) reported that prostitution was very common during the nineteenth century. He distinguished between the Annamite "Bamboo," the Chinese brothel, and the "Flower Boats," the Annamite "Daylight Whore" and the Annamite "Mistress of the European." These girls were either sold by their poor parents or even kidnapped by professional girl traders. It seems that the Annamite "Bamboo" was the brothel for the natives and the lower social layers of the French colonials. The prostitutes were Vietnamese girls who had to wait for customers in bamboo huts, hence the name. The infection rate with STDs was high, and the standard of hygiene quite low. Jacobus X. (1898) mentioned black lacquered teeth (a Chinese fashion) and hairless pubes as ethnic peculiarities. The girls had to sell themselves for very little money, and most of the money went to the pimp. [Source: Encyclopedia of Sexuality */ ]
He also described the style of living of Chinese prostitutes, who first came from Singapore. They resided in big houses and waited on the verandas for clients. An elder women acted as "mama." On the first floor were a lot of Chinese beds with dark-colored mosquito curtains to conceal the couples. For waiting opium-smokers, there would be a pipe. Although few of the girls smoked, they were instructed in preparing the pipes. The owners of the brothels and flower boats, which are houseboats in the channels, worked without license, and were free to carry on their trade. However, they had to put up with the extortion of the Mandarins. Under the most trivial presumption of harboring criminals, their inhabitants might be mercilessly driven out. Interestingly, the Chinese prostitutes had a chance to become a concubine of a man of reputation, and then rise to a more honored position. The houses of prostitution of Cholon were almost exclusively reserved for the Chinese and resembled the "society houses" in Europe. They were quite luxurious, with salons, divans, sofas, mirrors, and pictures. */
Besides these brothels, there also existed the so-called "Daylight Whore" and the system of the mistress. Apparently, the first was formerly in the bamboo but left because of her age. She also had a souteneur, who protected her from the police officers. They lingered in the streets and around restaurants, waiting to contact some possible client. After the initial contact was made, they followed the client to his house, ready to suggest sodomy and the kneeling instead of the horizontal position. */
The mistress of the European were often bought directly from the parents "for some twenty piasters," a young girl of 15 or 16, selected from those whose fate it would ultimately be to be sent to the "bamboo." It was quite common, though
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