Where Bangkok's sex workers go to school
CNNGo reader Justin Calderon visits SWING, an organization that educates and counsels Bangkok's transsexuals and sex workers
By Justin Calderon 12 October, 2010
http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/life/swing-teaching-english-bangkoks-sex-workers-478321In the middle of Patpong, one of Bangkok's sultry red-light districts, above a bawdy bar named Super P---y, a very unique class of students is getting ready for its weekly English lesson. Five male and transsexual service workers, the accepted title here, enter the class with bottled water and bootleg bags in hand.
While the volunteer ESL teachers from the United States and Australia are busy setting up the white board for the lesson, one of the students waves me down from my corner of the room. He raises his hand and says teasingly, "You know, you look like my ex-boyfriend."
