8 hours ago, bignok said:

Should just make the whole world a brothel. At least people could be honest about it.

It already is, just not advertised.

This time they got serious:

 

 

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Just another example of the RTP engaging in nonsense. They have been wanting to get rid of the nightlife for as long as the army has been in power. Reduce the entire industry to ashes, then rebuild it, in their own pure as snow image. Without a trace of nightlife, or a hint of a sex industry. The work of fake puritans. 
 
Of course we know this will not only mean more of a failure to revive the tourism industry, but likely a larger sex industry. Try to stop it, and oppress it, and what happens? It just grows. When you have a nation that pays 3,000 to 5,000 baht a month more for a college graduate with a 4 year degree (after a very expensive education) than an unskilled laborer, alot of women are going to choose to rent their bodies, over a 70 hour a week job, with low pay, and an unpleasant boss. 

Part of the problem is too many BiB's own many of these houses of ill repute.

20 hours ago, ezzra said:

Simply put, what ever number of sites pulled off today, even more will be up and running tomorrow, the fact that sex sells and the lure of easy money is just to great to ignore... 

Many Thais join the sex trade industry because they have few options due to poor public school education and low wages.  

Police and/or other officials probably didn’t get their cut, so they closed them down.

1 hour ago, LikeItHot said:

In a country that has top whore of the month websites.  Yeah ok.

If those are the top, then I don't want to see any picture of the not so top offers. 

Great news. Hopefully some of those girls will go back to freelancing in clubs and bars like they used to before Covid. Bangkok nightlife is severely lacking in the girl quality department lately. Of course some (many?) will just use other sites, but hopefully at least some go back to the clubs.

 

And as far as these escort services go - extremely overpriced - a big portion of it going to the service and not to the girl - and of course they don't declare or pay taxes etc. No big loss there.

2 hours ago, freedomnow said:

You don't need an apostrophe in this instance....

what's one of them? 

53 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

what's one of them? 

Some character out of Greek mythology?

2 minutes ago, mokwit said:

Some character out of Greek mythology?

even more confused now 

4 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

No prostitution is allowed in Thailand! It is not part of the rich Thai culture.

But its so hypocritical one of the areas of operation is OFFICIALLY known as Happyland because of all the massage parlours lol!

2 hours ago, SmokeandIce said:

Many Thais join the sex trade industry because they have few options due to poor public school education and low wages.  

Where did you get that info from ?

 

4 hours ago, Marco51 said:

Apart from this being one of the most wide spread activity in Thailand or how does one explain the amount of curtain hotels (in my residential neighbourhood inside ca. 3km I guess 10plus) that very few farang have ever heard of, the "number" bars and "restaurants at the sides of highways and country roads, the no hands karaoke and restaurants, etc etc etc....All of these appear to be quite lucrative and frequented. God forbid, a more sophisticated escort service would pop up , shame the hep2three4 cucumber troop and not pay taxes on fun and games...............make the blxxdy <deleted> legal, cut out the middle men, welcome to the 21st century.

And you hit the nail right on the head. As many of us know, this is not about law enforcement, at all. It is entirely about something else. Either they did not pay their cut, the cops are not profiting, or they pissed someone off. 

 

Amusing how the RTP continues to complaint that they don't get any respect. Respect has to be earned and should never, ever be freely given! 

The oldest profession meets the newest technology.

A match made in Heaven. 

We all know how this ends.

 

It's chasing a rabbit down a hole.

 

Why do conservatives always have to interfere with anything immoral.

 

<deleted>in nut cases. 

 

 

7 hours ago, tandor said:

Low Life living the High Life

Too bad the OP article doesn't explain just who is "blondie" in the accompanying photos.....

 

And for that matter, if they arrested a bunch of those involved in this ring, how come NONE of them are actually identified by real name and nationality in the article?

 

When the police arrest some farang for overstaying his visa, those guys typically get identified by name... But here, apparently, police feel these criminals have some right to anonymity?

 

 

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Just another example of the RTP engaging in nonsense. They have been wanting to get rid of the nightlife for as long as the army has been in power. Reduce the entire industry to ashes, then rebuild it, in their own pure as snow image. Without a trace of nightlife, or a hint of a sex industry. The work of fake puritans. 
 
Of course we know this will not only mean more of a failure to revive the tourism industry, but likely a larger sex industry. Try to stop it, and oppress it, and what happens? It just grows. When you have a nation that pays 3,000 to 5,000 baht a month more for a college graduate with a 4 year degree (after a very expensive education) than an unskilled laborer, alot of women are going to choose to rent their bodies, over a 70 hour a week job, with low pay, and an unpleasant boss. 

They just don't like it when farangs are dominating a legally grey area. I understand why they are doing this.

16 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

I am pretty sure that you know it´s a figure of speech. Otherwise, you are enlightened.

mine is a figure of speech as well. just a difference, i'm not being sardoinc

21 hours ago, PJ71 said:

It's been here for years buttercup.

Duh...

Oh well never mind...  there's all the sideliners. 

11 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Too bad the OP article doesn't explain just who is "blondie" in the accompanying photos.....

And for that matter, if they arrested a bunch of those involved in this ring, how come NONE of them are actually identified by real name and nationality in the article?

When the police arrest some farang for overstaying his visa, those guys typically get identified by name... But here, apparently, police feel these criminals have some right to anonymity?

Possibly because foreigners are less likely to sue for defamation ? (Especially when you can throw them in jail, have a court hearing to confirm their guilt and sentence, then back to jail until they are deported and blacklisted.)

Remember, this is Thailand. Even if you get caught red handed, on video and confess to a crime, if anyone says you did it, you can sue them for defaming you. (Which leads a lot of people to simply look down and away and pretend they didn't see or hear anything.)
(Maybe also why media aren't allowed into court proceedings. Which is why we pretty much never hear the outcome of most trials or what sentence, if any, was handed down.)

And the media is changing. I remember (decades ago now) when media like Pattaya People and others would publish photos of someone's "Face page" of their Passport with photo, name, nationality and birthdate on full display with just their passport number blacked out (usually).
As well, it was common to publish their complete (very complete) home address (if applicable) right down to the postal code.

Thai media used to also publish graphic images of dead people that some "Western" media sites would blur a bit.



 

On 9/21/2023 at 7:27 AM, phetphet said:

What's an unlicenced VOIP? I thought with those things, you just downloaded an app or bought a VOIP phone set and signed up for a service.

I'm guess they are referring to the LINE app as opposed to a paid service. Could be a "lost in translation" error as well.

17 hours ago, Ironmike said:

Maybe the coppers should take a look at Tinder, Thai friendly and Thai cupid whilst there at it there all hooker selling their bums. 

No s*** right ? I remember when some of those "dating sites" first started. Most were scams from the start with the site owners also pretending to be the "hot, attractive young women who just can't seem to find the right man but if you pay for a premium membership, she'll have all the time in the world to chat with you and maybe even send you some stock photos you could find on the internet yourself if you tried" !

The site operators were posing as the "attractive" women on the site to lure people into paying for memberships.

You don't dare go to a site like Thai friendly (no spaces) these days. A couple months ago I was cleaning out some old bookmarks and saw the link so I clicked on it. Pages of women that met my "profile" filters. Saw that the message box was empty so I left the site and continued with what I'd been doing.

Within minutes I had a dozen emails suddenly appear in my normal email Inbox from women who had "liked" me or sent me messages. A couple hours later it was up to nearly 3 dozen emails. Almost all the messages were "are you in Pattaya now" or "available for ST only" messages.

I waited for a day and went back to delete the messages on the site.
It was around 5:30am.
Within seconds boxes were popping up on screen showing various women were looking at my profile. I quickly closed the window and then looked at my email inbox.

Sure enough, within a minute email notifications started pouring in from women who had "liked" me or sent messages. And again, pretty much all of the messages were sex offers.

But those sites are not the same as the "escort" sites.
The "escort" sites are digital pimps while the dating sites are more like "freelancer" bars.

If Thai friendly was making the arrangements for a girl to meet you and collecting her "fee" it would be a different story.
 

22 hours ago, Bobydog said:

Such a shame they didn't put the same effort into regulaling road deaths for example, they know the causes but obviously don't care.

Its simple, everything = THB ....  nothing gets done unless someone pays and how much is in it for me....   doing ones job, morals, saving the envirorment is for losers...

Yes good job...

 

Any illegal activity in Thailand is only reserved to the privilege of Thai's and not to generate income to those pesky "falangs"....

On 9/21/2023 at 7:13 AM, ChrisY1 said:

Massive crime solve by the RTP...they must be so proud.....or were these people encroaching?

Encroaching would probably be the only reason RTP would bother and of course to get the picture taken showing how great they are!

On 9/21/2023 at 5:22 AM, webfact said:

complex network of individuals involved in the international sex trade.

lol.

 

International you say? So, people taken across borders against their will for purposes of sex? All those pictures do not seem to bear that out.

On 9/21/2023 at 9:38 AM, Andre0720 said:

Just wondering how 'bars' are able to avoid detection.....

Magic of brown envelopes...

1 hour ago, Jelli said:

All those pictures do not seem to bear that out.

By " international sex trade" they meant this company was offering liasons with Ladies/Ladyboys to customers in  different regions or countries. 

The Site listed : 

Asia Australia Germany Netherlands Poland and the United Kingdom

in the following cities........

Bangkok

Phuket

Tokyo

Manila

Singapore

Hong Kong

Kuala Lumpur

Macau

Jakarta

Bali

Angeles City

Cebu

Hanoi

Ho Chi Minh

Phnom Penh

Sydney

Melbourne

Berlin 

Amsterdam

Rotterdam

The Hague

Warsaw

Krakow

London

Liverpool

Manchester

Leeds

Birmingham

Newcastle

Bristol

As soon as the brown envelope arrives business as usual no need to contact big Joke. ????