Despairing adult daughters of Thailand's dirty old men tell AMANDA GOFF how sex tourism shattered their lives - and the toe-curling email that made one woman cut off her dad forever
After more than a decade in the adult industry as Samantha X, and then running my own escort agency, there isn't much I haven't seen, heard or done.
But when I learned about Losers Back Home - the dirty old men who move to Pattaya, the sex capital of Thailand - and what they get up to there, I was shocked to my core.
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