Is it okay to walk naked chest in the streets?

[Goodboybkk]

Dear all,

 

Is it okay to walk naked chest in the streets?

It is very hot in Thailand.

Thanks

[HungDonger]

If you are a big-breasted, attractive female in your 20's it is O.K. with me.

[stoner]

only if you feel like a champ.

[2baht]

A Singha Beer wife beater singlet is preferable for bogans!

[bkk6060]

It is illegal to drive a car shirtless.   You can walk around without a shirt but the Thai people generally do not like it.  You will be considered "lo-so mak".

[pgrahmm]

It goes against Thai societal norms & not acceptable - but you would probably get a farang "pass".....

You won't be well received or regarded.....Off the scale lo-so....

[BritManToo]

9 minutes ago, pgrahmm said:

It goes against Thai societal norms & not acceptable - but you would probably get a farang "pass".....

You won't be well received or regarded.....Off the scale lo-so....

Thai historical dramas show many Thai men bare chested.

[Ralf001]

jump make sure you got underwear on.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

Pattaya beach road: ok

Bangkok or any other city: not ok

[KhunLA]

There is a 'breast free zone' w/CCTV for 'security, on our soi, though is restricted to BMI <25

 

Edited August 22, 2023 by KhunLA

[KannikaP]

37 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

It is illegal to drive a car shirtless.   You can walk around without a shirt but the Thai people generally do not like it.  You will be considered "lo-so mak".

It is also illegal to go outside without wearing any underwear, so I heard.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Up until the early 20th century, many Thai women used to go around topless.

 

I wonder why that particular element of "Thainess" is no longer promoted.

[richard_smith237]

17 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Thai historical dramas show many Thai men bare chested.

Yes, but the question wasn’t asked ‘if it was ok to walk around without a shirt 100 years ago?’

 

As another poster mentioned…  ‘lo-so maak’… particularly in the city. 
also an indication of socio economic disparity… poorer people & foreigners who’d get labelled ‘kee-nok-farang’…. Particularly in towns & cities… 

 

At beach resorts it’s somewhat more relaxed… 

 

But ultimately the answer ‘no… it’s not ok to walk around without a top, particularly for a foreigner’…

[2long]

It's true about the underwear.

My wife goes mad if I try to go anywhere in the car with no shirt, which might suggest that it could be (another daft) law. I would never drive topless unless just dropping someone off and not getting out of the car.. but alas it didn't happen.

As for walking around topless, on an island or Pattaya, I guess it's ok. In a city, no.. just don't do it.

[KhunLA]

3 minutes ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

Up until the early 20th century, many Thai women used to go around topless.

 

I wonder why that particular element of "Thainess" is no longer promoted.

 

[Henryford]

I was in the dentist the other day and a customer came in for treatment shirtless. Unbelievable rudeness and i was gobsmacked that they treated him like that.

[alien365]

I don't know how people can do it. I'm too insecure about my body to walk around a beach area topless, never mind in a city. 

[sammieuk1]

11 minutes ago, Henryford said:

I was in the dentist the other day and a customer came in for treatment shirtless. Unbelievable rudeness and i was gobsmacked that they treated him like that.

That was me my Mrs. bit my nipple looking for her glasses ????

[daveAustin]

If you want to do that, make sure it’s in Pattaya or some equally uncouth place. Don’t go bringing trashy whitey behaviour here! ????

[steven100]

only if your under 25yrs old.

[ChipButty]

simple answer is dont do it, dont ever walk into a government office like that, 

[Kinok Farang]

Definitely ok but more fun doing it the other way round.

[Moonlover]

30 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

It is also illegal to go outside without wearing any underwear, so I heard.

Personally I think that's complete nonsense and ChatGPT agrees with me, besides how on Earth would anyone detect this heinous crime?

 

The only time I wear underwear is when I go for my weekly massage, but I would never walk out without a shirt, not even around the village. Although there is one guy who does it routinely, but I've been told he's a bit of a head case.

[Drumbuie]

No. Not on the street. Not here, not anywhere other than on a beach, by a pool or in your own garden. (The same goes for shorts, imho, but judging by the number of unlovely middle-aged farang legs on the streets, even in the hi-so areas of BK, that battle is already lost).

 

Too hot? Wear loose clothes made of lightweight natural fibres. 

Want to be treated with respect by the people you meet?  Ditto. 

 

 

 

 

 

[ezzra]

1 hour ago, HungDonger said:

If you are a big-breasted, attractive female in your 20's it is O.K. with me.

Hey, you stole my pun, not cool bro.

[digbeth]

even in Pattaya the wife beater crowds knows to put one on before entering malls,

[CMHomeboy78]

1 hour ago, stoner said:

only if you feel like a champ.

Make that "chump" instead of "champ".

[impulse]

57 minutes ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

Up until the early 20th century, many Thai women used to go around topless.

 

I wonder why that particular element of "Thainess" is no longer promoted.

Once they started driving, too many crashes from rubbernecking.

[bendejo]

 

 

That guy in the shorts feels it's too hot for a shirt, but the fully-dressed guy in the yellow trousers seems to be doing ok.

 

[bendejo]

1 hour ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

Up until the early 20th century, many Thai women used to go around topless.

I wonder why that particular element of "Thainess" is no longer promoted.

Implants

 

Edited August 22, 2023 by bendejo