‘Wife for hire’: Inside Thailand’s shocking rental marriage trend

[SAFETY FIRST]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

describing how the practice, once hidden, has now become a significant income source for young people struggling to make ends meet.

This is nothing new. 

 

For a couple of decades now I have been going into the 7eleven on Soi Kophai, early mornings, around 3, 4, 5am. 

 

After work the agogo girls with their Thai boyfriends paying for their beers and cigarettes after she been shagging and blowing the many foreigners through the night. 

 

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[kimamey]

20 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Yeah Jeff... WTF is that !

 

 

Good post, although I think your English need a bit of improvement. You should have written.

 

Yeah Jeff... WTF are those?  😃

[10baht]

Some things must be true for a Nikah mut'ah:

• The bride must not be married to anyone else at the time
• If she has never been married, her legal guardian must agree
• She must be a Muslim, or among the People of the Book (which means Christians, Jews, and Muslims, mostly)
• After the contract ends, she must not have sex with anyone for some time. This is usually three months. This is so people will know that the father of any children she has if she becomes pregnant was her husband.

What about rental Thai rules?

[10baht]

19 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

he sends her US$7,000 per month to 'keep' her and the kid. (The kid is looking at attending Harvard in the next few years).

I hope he has a scholarship $7K a month will not pay for his books.

[Tropicalevo]

19 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

A few years ago I used to go to beer garden BK pick a nice girl and take her for a holiday, no bar fines and usually 1000 bhat a day  ,and have a lovely time,someone said it's open again, is that true? I'm past that now and married 

That option is still available - especially on the internet.

But the price has gone up a tad.

I am a widower and I cannot be Rsed to train a new wife.

Always nice to have a bit of company when on holiday.

[FritsSikkink]

22 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'm not at all shocked.

What does shock me is all the billionaires marrying second hand wives.

Jeff Bezos with all his money finds himself a 50yo woman .......... why?

 

On the other hand,

Leonardo DiCaprio gets it right by trading in his used 25yos for new 18yos every few years. 

Cause you're not as you said many times you have one yourself.

[sandyf]

15 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

Age old tradition with a new trendy name

Nothing trendy about the name. It nothing more than the ignorance of some to put them all alongside rent boys.

There is no dispute that Thailand has, like every other country, many involved in prostitution, but there is also a great number of girls just trying to escape poverty. A foreign husband is a fairly common way out and bar scene was little more than the origin of  "dating apps", now widely used in the west.

In the UK, Wetherspoons have a "try before you buy" arrangement on real ale, nothing wrong with tourists taking a similar approach.