Tag Archives: hope for the hopeless

Ayumi

Ayumi came by today in a cute white and black dress, a shiny necklace and a girlish hairband with a bow. He wore no shoes though, and that was upsetting to him. Yes, he. Ayumi is not a little girl but a teenage boy who struggles with gender identity and actually Ayumi isn’t even his […]

Glamorized Auction Blocks

“It’s such a shame. She’s so young and pretty!” I’ve often heard this expressed when people see a beautiful young Thai woman in prostitution. I cringe every time. Women in prostitution are routinely paraded on glamorized auction blocks, their bodies exposed, and their sexuality flaunted to get the highest bids. I have watched men examine […]