What is "bohsia phenomenon"

[Ahmad Nasser]

"bohsia" utk orang pompuan
"bohjan" utk orang jantan
dua-dua makna dia serupa aje
"tak kisah dosa"
itulah sbbnya diwujudkan perkataan
berlawanan dri Dr. Mahathir "Rakan Muda"
Rakan tua belum adalagi.

[OOI JOO AIK]

pl...@columbia.edu wrote:
: Can anyone out there tell me the meaning of "bohsia phenomenon"?
: I saw this phrase in a recent BERITA-L mailing list article
: I received. It seems that it was written in the context of
: either prostitution or drug abuse. I do not recall ever learning
: such a phrase in school (I am assuming that it's BM). It could
: also have originated some time after I left home ten years ago.

: Post reply here or E-mail me at pl...@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu to
: save bandwidth.

: Thanks.

: Poh-Hin Lim
: E-Mail: pl...@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
: WWW: http://www.columbia.edu/~pl41/index.html

bosia in hokkien (chinese dialect) means dumb.
in malaysian context,
it is used for young girls who hang out in streets at night waiting
to be picked up by guys. the will just follow any guy without asking anything.
thus the word dumb. they don't care.
all of them have social and personal reasons for behaving like that. they
are not prostitutes. well they are something in between prostitutes and
"cheap" girls.

hope this will be of help to those who don't know what bosia is.