BangkokReady

Very sad, but the girl bears some of the responsibility for choosing a bad guy, not securing commitment, allowing him to get her pregnant, not getting her to marry her, and so on.

While I agree that this is part of the issue, if they absolutely could not do anything before 18, most of them would probably start at 18. So while the problem of underage girls being paid for sex would go, the problem of young women being paid for sex would remain.

And if Thailand started doing that, people would begin abusing, just like they do in the West. And that would require a lot of money from a fairly poor country.

It differs from country to country. But we're talking about Thailand here, where it's especially bad. 🤷‍♂️

Let's be honest, the corruption is everywhere at every level.

I guess they beat up the wrong guy. Maybe an attempted shakedown? Did he say, "My dad's a cop!" but they didn't believe him? I wonder what would happen if the victim's father was a street vendor, and how many ordinary guys they've done this to. 🤔

Because she's overweight? 🤔

How so? 🫢

As far as I know, a 14 year old with a twenty something isn't even that unusual in Thailand (which doesn't mean that I think it is OK). I doubt the police would get involved unless the mother makes a complaint, which is also very unlikely. It's just another thing that we foreigners, while bothered by, can't do a thing about, even if it's "against the law" in Thailand. Certainly preaching to parents or trying to influence the child is pointless.

I'd like to believe that they are well meaning, but I think their obsession with propagating trans ideology means they couldn't care less about the people they are harming.

Being a no good gossipmonger. 🤫 Call a spade a spade. Call a troll a troll. What's wrong with that? 🤷‍♂️

Always a defence... 🤔

The problem is that it's foreign people, not foreign tourists. If it was only foreign tourists, I doubt anyone would care.

Is that an admission? I'm not surprised that you probably gossip with people about your trolling antics on here, but I wonder who is lonely enough to listen... 🤔 Perhaps you have a RealDoll that you "gossip" with. 🫣

He's doing the typical leftist thing of starting with his conclusion (not wanting to see profile pics that annoy him) then trying to find/fabricate the argument and evidence that fit (they're offensive).

This is the answer. If 50 year old Western men back home could typically easily marry a 21 year old, they very likely would.

Most of them do, but some couples stay together, when the Western wife allows him to sleep around with Thai girls?

Yes. No. /thread

Nothing under 18 seems like the only common sense way to go. The people praying on children need to be stopped. Even over 18 they need counselling and shouldn't rush into it. It's awful that they've been allowed to do the damage they have done so far. There'll probably be hundreds or thousands of these cases coming up in the next 5-10 years. Many suicides as well. It's very cruel. People need to protect children from this and not let accusations of "transphobia" put them off.

Sure, I'm sure the network of aunties all believe that. As I said, people do have pride in that, but they will still be judged and gossiped about.

I find your profile picture highly offensive. It trivialises the hard working people that make Thailand/SEA so great. They are not here for your amusement. Can you change it, please?

Probably don't want to face all the judgement and gossip back home. They're proud that they took care of their family (parents, child, drunken brother, etc.), but they'll still be looked down upon and gossiped about. While Thai people can appear to be very chilled out and non-judgemental, that doesn't seem to occur in the village.

Well said. I think a lot of foreigners (and I'm sure we're all guilty of this at some point) have very rose tinted glasses when it comes to Thai people. We kind of project this image that we have of the ideal Thai person showing perfect "Thainess" and it means we can be blind to the fact that there are many people in Thailand who are the equivalent of people back home that we would cross the road to avoid. The OP definitely needs to wake up to this fact. Thinking they (a foreigner) can simply tell some random Thai people what to do and they will completely change their personality and values is fairly naïve.

Correct.

I don't know. Why not?