Sun, sea, sand... and a £5bn sex trade: Seedy side of Brit crooks' Thai haven

[RichardColeman]

 

3 hours ago, Thian said:

There are an estimated 2.8 million prostitutes in the country

Damn I'm 54  this year, I better get a move on if I'm to make an impact in that figure

[terryofcrete]

Guys... It’s the Daily Mirror... it can’t be true ! 

[Thai Ron]

No one's questioning or commenting on the "exploitative" activities of Western farangs in Thailand

Oh no, they're far too busy pointing how wrong the reporter got it on the "idyllic beaches" as if somehow,

that's what people reading the report back home are gonna be focused on.

 

For me, I think the greater presence of Western women in places like Walking Street and others like soi cowboy is fantastic and a welcome development.

If a sexpat's happy to do what he does, he shouldn't give a damn if there's a sneering, disapproving farang woman taking the piss out of him as he 

slips quietly outta the gogo bar with a girl a third of his age and a quarter of his weight.

 

 

[marqus12]

" Pattaya could be the definition of paradise."  

 

There are certainly falling angels there.

[Dukeleto]

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But it is not just sex for sale that attracts foreigners. Cheap property, a low cost of living and year-round sunshine are a pull too.

Cheap property? Where? In a jungle village 2 clicks from the Burmese border?

Low cost of living? Same as above!

Year round sunshine? Never has been! With a minimum 6 month monsoon season which seems to have extended itself to 9 months of the year!

Its obvious the author of this article hasn’t had even a cut toe nail in the Kingdom!

 

[dunroaming]

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

With its idyllic beaches and crystal clear blue seas, Pattaya could be the definition of paradise.

If there are still any TV members who believe a word they read in the UK gutter press then they should take note of the above.  Complete rubbish but that is what their readers want I suppose, titillation and nothing else.

[shackleton]

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The British tabloids the Sun and the Mirror are doing the Thai Tourist board free advertising  come on all you losers come to Pattaya for Sex booze and drugs 

if you are a. Ex con then buy a old bar and do your thing

I  am sure the  Thai government officials are monitoring the British news papers and are aware of what is being said 

but with the amount of money involved for Pattaya and Thailand are keeping Mum 

[Reigntax]

4 hours ago, crazygreg44 said:

"With its idyllic beaches and crystal clear blue seas"

 

"2.8 million prostitutes" 

 

 . . the mind boggles!!!    Faker than fake !

True. There are many more than 2.8 mil !

[Ricardo]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

tourists can buy T-shirts with the slogan: Good guys go to heaven, bad guys go to Pattaya.

 

Clearly all one needs to know, to instruct the British Navy to nuke the place, before they put anything even-ruder on a T-shirt, which might corrupt our youth !

[namatjira]

Pattaya could be the definition of paradise .....haha

[Khun Paul]

It is the Daily Mirror known for its own seedy stories about anyone . Utter gutter press .

[thailand49]

5 hours ago, joeyg said:

True plus 95% of "Johns" are Thai men...

 

Thai men, that should include the Thai officials at the top of the list.  Thais like their children to grow up fast.

[nong38]

Don't believe a word of it, Pattaya  is heaven on erth, show me the sordid naughty bits referred to, cant be done that's why Pattaya is twinned with Walton-on-the Naze! or maybe Soho.

[SheungWan]

2 hours ago, SpeakeasyThai said:

I fully concur. Great post - and true.

Btw a friend of mine says in the North London suburb he lives is 'the stab capital of the world'.

Is that right? And where exactly would that be?

[Misterwhisper]

4 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

I am now utterly disillusioned 

Visit the magnificent beach resort of Pattaya. That will cheer you up and turn your disillusion around in no time... 

[Just Weird]

5 hours ago, samsensam said:

thai visa team; thanks so much for this ground breaking journalism and enlightening article.

You've got The Mirror to thank for this ground breaking journalism and enlightening article, not Thaivisa.

[Misterwhisper]

3 hours ago, Thechook said:

This isn't news, people around the world have always known what Pattaya is.

Except Miss Amanda Killelea, a professional journalist who apparently has been living under a rock in the middle of London for the past 40 years or so.

Edited January 10, 2018 by Misterwhisper

[Just Weird]

5 hours ago, joeyg said:

True plus 95% of "Johns" are Thai men...

 

Not in Walking Street, they aren't.

[Blackheart1916]

Pathetic article, the first sentence gave it away. If the alleged reporter actually checked the place out, she might be surprised to learn Pattaya consists of more than three streets.

[ChrisY1]

The Mirror will upgrade their sales receipts after this story......and for once, it's quite true!

[Just Weird]

3 hours ago, SpeakeasyThai said:

I fully concur. Great post - and true.

It was a dreadful post and, with the exception of the highlighted sentence about Thailand, 100% of it was false!

 

"Brits pretty much have a lock down on sex in their own country. By all but banning prostitution and by portraying sex as a morally dirty, seedy, sleazy, sinful and guilty pursuit. Now they continue to try to eradicate sex in every other country that they find it. Well in Thailand sex is not a sin against a Christian god but something like sanook or fun. So the boring conservative British media should better focus on the drunken fights happening across provincial towns in their country every Friday and Saturday as a result of nobody being able to get laid".

[Dexlowe]

6 minutes ago, Blackheart1916 said:

If the alleged reporter actually checked the place out, she might be surprised to learn Pattaya consists of more than three streets.

She probably did not write the article. This is how it happens -- at the morning news conference, the editor, chief reporter, news editor and chief sub would all agree that the Vella case needed a follow-up -- "... get ANY-FRACKING THING." So Amanda, who's got nothing on, is roared at to "... get ANY-FRACKING THING." She trawls for a few quotes, but can't advance the story, so a grubby, beer-sodden and socially dysfunctional sub editor is told by the chief sub to "sex-it-up". And voila: yellow journalism in action. I worked briefly for the yellow press, in a fit of youthful exuberance and self-importance, but quickly developed a conscience.

[Thaitoknow]

After the first sentance we all knew this story was written by somebody who has never been here.

[DrTuner]

Story about Pattaya and a female writer in the West. No need to read the insides.

[VBF]

5 hours ago, car720 said:

Ah!!  Journalism.

It ain't what it used to be..

Sadly, in the case of these muck-raking tabloids....it is! 

[AboutThaim]

2 hours ago, Thai Ron said:

No one's questioning or commenting on the "exploitative" activities of Western farangs in Thailand

Oh no, they're far too busy pointing how wrong the reporter got it on the "idyllic beaches" as if somehow,

that's what people reading the report back home are gonna be focused on.

 

For me, I think the greater presence of Western women in places like Walking Street and others like soi cowboy is fantastic and a welcome development.

If a sexpat's happy to do what he does, he shouldn't give a damn if there's a sneering, disapproving farang woman taking the piss out of him as he 

slips quietly outta the gogo bar with a girl a third of his age and a quarter of his weight.

 

 

I tend to agree with you Thai Ron but as in many other situations involving exploitation of adults and child labour what is/ where are the answers?  Stop the exploitation and let them and their families starve?  I would like the sneering farang women to come up with some suggestions occasionally!

[Bastos60]

7 hours ago, steven100 said:

can someone tell me where the crystal clear blue sea is   ? 

I was thinking the exact same thing. Unless sewage is blue and clear, there is not much else to see.

[Bantex]

This is breaking news.

Who’d have thought this was going on in Pattaya all theses years.

[Psimbo]

'Quality' reporting by a Mirror staff writer.

[wakeupplease]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

With its idyllic beaches and crystal clear blue seas, Pattaya could be the definition of paradise

This is the only thing I can find wrong with the article its false as no crystal clear blue sea or idyllic beaches Everything else is true so why are some on here complaining?

 

Guys I read what you write and most of you say the same thing week after week and you live there.

 

The place to me is a CP, but some of us have standards and others well lets say they live in pat and leave it at that.

 

The reporter told it as it is.

Edited January 10, 2018 by wakeupplease