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Time to rethink prostitution ban, say experts

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You can only have so many 7-11 and Family Marts. What would be their alternative method of employment if these ladies of the night were not employed as hookers?

 

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    "...Estimates put the number of Thai prostitutes at anywhere between 800,000 to 2 million-plus, with many aged under 18..."    I don't have a problem with 'working girls' unless it is forced

  • Clearly it will not be legalized. Think of all the missing tea-money.

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100 years same same....

6 minutes ago, SpeakeasyThai said:

You can only have so many 7-11 and Family Marts. What would be their alternative method of employment if these ladies of the night were not employed as hookers?

 

You could say that registering as a hooker as someone who would be taxed etc on income would help on a social benefits idea, but, is Noi from wherever going to declare all her cash payments? would she be happy to accept only credit card payments that could be verified and used for tax deductions. 

I don't know the answers to the above but I do believe it should not be illegal to work as a hooker.

13 minutes ago, SpeakeasyThai said:

You can only have so many 7-11 and Family Marts. What would be their alternative method of employment if these ladies of the night were not employed as hookers?

 

They could use their manual skills to make sausages?

Follow the Dutch model.

legalize sex work, register the workers.

Nearly no street worker hanging around.

All regulated and looked after.

 

And after a few years all shuts down, the famous redlight district are regulated and nearly nothing is left.

Stil mass of tourist walking around to have a glimp.

 

 

Good news indeed. So the money (in tax) will go the the government and not the police farce. We have to feel sorry for them, perhaps they can be given some sort of discount in thsee fine establishments to compensate for loss of income?

49 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

If we make buying sex illegal, we make them consider: ‘Is it worth it if I have to pay for the sex and offend the law? going on holiday to a country where I get fined for buying sex or smoking on the beach and  pay twice as much for a bottle of wine as I did last year'.

 

Answers on a postcard, please. First prize is a massage - with no happy ending, obviously. 

And it's not even wine most times it's cheap sh-t fruit wine that most alkies would turn their nose up at.

Mind you some of the hookers around pattaya would turn my nose up as well.

The answer is staring them in the face.

 

Follow the Pattaya model. Despite walking street's reputation the police recently  confirmed that there are no prossies there.

Edited by trianglechoke

1 hour ago, smotherb said:

Maybe, if you are pushing the notion that expecting the man to buy dinner is being compensated. If not, then a high percentage of the girls you are dating must be prostitutes.

Yes 90% of Thai girls are some sort of prostitute.

1 minute ago, Tony Hanscomb said:

Yes 90% of Thai girls are some sort of prostitute.

You mean 90% of the Thai girls you know are prostitutes.

8 hours ago, Ugothai said:

what about the north families that send the daughters to make money because they are poor ?? they don't ask how the daughter can make so much money....so they can bild new house, buy the car.....this is thai culture....for how long time ???

Are they really poor or more likely damn lazy ??
Too many job vacancies remain uncovered, as people obviously often prefer their daughters in the trade than moving their arse.

Nice business model Certainly easier to get fine money from clients then from prostitutes..

Let me guesd 100 k plus year in jail...

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

In the Nordic or French model, selling sex is legal but buying it or running a brothel is prohibited. 

So who do you sell it to if it's illegal to buy it?

It's pretty well known the biggest brothels and karaoke bars in CM are owned by very senior police. I've never heard of these establishments being raided, which points to blind eyes being turned en masse.

If nothing else, decriminalising prostitution would eliminate national hypocrisy. The vast majority of people using those facilities are Thai.

9 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

legalization would certainly diminish the possibility of extortion by corrupt officials.

That's why it will never happen.

1 hour ago, smotherb said:

Maybe, if you are pushing the notion that expecting the man to buy dinner is being compensated. If not, then a high percentage of the girls you are dating must be prostitutes.

 

nope, lots of them even university grads commonly look for financial assistance.  either want to borrow money soon or just free cash.  many with normal day jobs that moonlight at nightclubs.  i knew a lawyer that moonlighted at nightclubs when she wanted to buy a car. she was selecive, not anyone but still the game was the same.

 

not 100% but very common.

 

it gets better in higher levels of society or sometimes the higher level gals just look for higher amounts of money.

Edited by atyclb

It is legal in Hong Kong. 

The  uni gals are fun, want the cash, good efforts with the activities.  Poon Tan University  rocks..

 

Obviously helmet and other traffic laws should be rethinked too since they are largely ignored.

2 minutes ago, rwill said:

Obviously helmet and other traffic laws should be rethinked too since they are largely ignored.

I disagree , road traffic laws should be enforced more severely 

2 hours ago, atyclb said:

in thailand a high % of girls that you are dating expect to be compensated.   its a cultural thing

A high % of Thai girls I dated actually worked, and while dating me they couldn't work anywhere else. So what if they want compensation for the time?

30 % are for sale even more lol. Thai

8 minutes ago, rwill said:

Obviously helmet and other traffic laws should be rethinked too since they are largely ignored.

You can't ask them to think to much

It doesn't work well to make it illegal to buy sex and at the same time have it legal to sell, just stupid. Here in Sweden prostitution is just as frequent as it was before this law. It's just been more hidden and it's more underground and online. 

48 minutes ago, dotpoom said:

So who do you sell it to if it's illegal to buy it?

To "criminals", of course. Nordic feminazis use sex workers as agent provocateurs to produce criminals. 

Edited by micmichd

I never consider it prostitution, really!! I love to go out at night and meet bar-girls. I love to talk with them. Many are my friends. They are nice to me. Enough said but…sometime they like me enough to go with me. Yes, I give them money because they really need it. I owned a bar…I know most make little money. I never hurt them…they never hurt me. Sometimes we become even better friends but the point is…I go out to have fun and they have fun with me.

That, to me, is not prostitution. It is 2 people who like each other. Yes, reality is she may only like my money but she is good enough not to make it obvious.

4 minutes ago, Tengtai said:

It doesn't work well to make it illegal to buy sex and at the same time have it legal to sell, just stupid. Here in Sweden prostitution is just as frequent as it was before this law. It's just been more hidden and it's more underground and online. 

And how many Swedish sex workersthe get killed now because the customer needs to get rid of a witness?

18 minutes ago, micmichd said:
2 hours ago, atyclb said:

in thailand a high % of girls that you are dating expect to be compensated.   its a cultural thing

A high % of Thai girls I dated actually worked, and while dating me they couldn't work anywhere else. So what if they want compensation for the time?

 

 

worked as what ?

10 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

legalization would certainly diminish the possibility of extortion by corrupt officials.

Are the corrupt officials not also the same ones who make the laws?

9 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

 

worked as what ?

As shopkeepers, as housewives, as clerks, as students, as bar girls, as massage girls - whatever their job is. In a labour society it's the time that counts. 

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