Don't! Buy! Thai!
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Don't! Buy! Thai! was a campaign initiated in the early 1990s by Andrew Vachss to boycott purchases of goods and services produced in Thailand until Thailand introduced formal and practical reforms to significantly curtail prostitution of children.
The organization of Don't! Buy! Thai! was willfully informal, with promoters refusing donations.
The campaign had great difficulty attracting attention from television, radio, and print media; so discussion was largely on the Internet. And, on the Internet, it came under vociferous attack by Sean Parlaman, who variously accused its campaigners of being fundamentalist Christians, right-wing bigots, and themselves pedophiliacs. (Parlaman later died in an apparent suicide while under investigation for sexually assaulting boys in Thailand.)
In 2000, frustrated by the lack of traction and noting that the prostitution of children to pedophiliac sexual tourists had become less concentrated in Thailand (as it has become more prevalent in other countries), Vachss and most of the most involved campaigners abandoned the boycott.
