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

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On 11/30/2024 at 12:12 AM, Jonathan Swift said:

"deepest, darkest, depths" hahaha

That might have been a thing years ago.   Like the time back during Christmas and New Years in 1972, outside of Khon Kean, where the communists soldiers were.     

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On 11/30/2024 at 1:20 AM, Dante99 said:

Of course even when there is no sex or even touching involved.  

 

Our relationship is we like to sing together, or play chess with eachother or play tennis together or a million other things all non sexual.

You won't catch me and my lady singing together.   Or, if you do, I have extra ear plugs and other types of ear protection so you can't hear me!

[Trolling4warlords]

There is absolutely no difference between "rental wife" and "wife".

One gives the man the power, the other destroys the man.

ALL Wives are on "rent". Every single woman is only with you until you suffer workplace injury and cannot provide for her anymore or you run out of money. Every man knows this very well.

The difference with "rental wives", is that the man controls WHEN the marriage ends and how much is paid upfront, not the lady.

 

A "wife" is the complete opposite, the "wife" determines when the marriage ends, and how much she'll take from you.  Basically, she gets paid a undetermined sum of money at the end of the "divorce contract."

 

[thaibeachlovers]

On 11/30/2024 at 4:49 PM, Hummin said:

oh, my ,so much you know about Isaan women, 

I always expect a lot of fake information on threads like this.

 

While the OP is the usual woke article about exploited women that western matrons love to rant over, it's been happening for decades at a minimum. I visited LOS for decades and always had a rental for the duration of my stay. I even had a rental for 8 years that I picked up first night on arrival and waved goodbye to at the airport ( I did not pay her a retainer while not in LOS ).

It was rare to have such a long term rental as they usually had departed  for places unknown the next time I arrived.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 11/30/2024 at 5:45 PM, khunpin said:

Nothing else than prostitution. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 

Oh, sorry. I forgot. There is no prostitution in Thailand. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 

Stupid me. 🤦🏼‍♂️

We didn't pay them for sex, we paid them to be with us and they loved sex so much ( unlike western women ) that the sex came free.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 11/30/2024 at 5:51 PM, ryandb said:

I assumed this was Thai men renting out their wives or something weird, not just normal escorting/prostitution, hardly a groundbreaking book is it... Yes Holiday GFs are a thing, I live on Samui and this is pretty normal, a guy picks up a girl in Bangkok and brings her down for company (and the obvious extras) rather than eat and do things alone. 

My rental always came in useful for minding the bags while I walked around looking for a place to stay.

 

It was way cheaper renting in Pattaya and taking them to the islands. Many places on Thai beaches didn't have rentals available, and the ones in the town were far too expensive as scarcity increases prices.

 

When I was working in Saudi I was able to afford Bkk Gogo rentals, but the UK isn't as lucrative to work in, so it was a stop off in Pattaya on the way south.

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[thaibeachlovers]

On 11/30/2024 at 6:16 PM, Will B Good said:

 

I'll never understand why truly wealthy men marry......pretty damn sure if I win the lottery there'll be no wife anywhere to be seen.

Probably same reason as most of us. Think it's going to be sex without having to go look for it in a bar. Usually wrong.

 

Re the lottery, agreed. Contract with an escort agency would be the cheese.

[Scouse123]

20 hours ago, sandyf said:

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.

 

 

It's prostitution, plain and simple, no matter how you try to dress it up. Everyone can make an excuse for selling themselves, poverty usually being top of the list.

 

Lack of education is also another to limit a person's opportunities.

 

We hear this old chestnut also trotted out as an excuse for thefts, robberies, burglaries, citing poverty and poor childhoods, over here and in the West.

 

Regarding dating apps, they are more popular than ever in Thailand, especially for those who don't wish to stand on a stage and don a number.

 

Lastly, many of them forget that their reason was poverty or to help out family once they hit the lights of Pattaya, Bangkok and Phuket and soon find other vices to drain any money that they get.

 

All night partying, drinking until out of control, gambling and drugs to mention just a few.

 

The salute should go out to those who choose not to go down this route and work near their homes in menial jobs to keep themselves above water.

[ryandb]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

My rental always came in useful for minding the bags while I walked around looking for a place to stay.

 

It was way cheaper renting in Pattaya and taking them to the islands. Many places on Thai beaches didn't have rentals available, and the ones in the town were far too expensive as scarcity increases prices.

 

When I was working in Saudi I was able to afford Bkk Gogo rentals, but the UK isn't as lucrative to work in, so it was a stop off in Pattaya on the way south.

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I wouldn't know about prices I'm just aware it happens and frequently. 

[sandyf]

1 hour ago, Scouse123 said:

 

 

It's prostitution, plain and simple, no matter how you try to dress it up. Everyone can make an excuse for selling themselves, poverty usually being top of the list.

 

Lack of education is also another to limit a person's opportunities.

 

We hear this old chestnut also trotted out as an excuse for thefts, robberies, burglaries, citing poverty and poor childhoods, over here and in the West.

 

Regarding dating apps, they are more popular than ever in Thailand, especially for those who don't wish to stand on a stage and don a number.

 

Lastly, many of them forget that their reason was poverty or to help out family once they hit the lights of Pattaya, Bangkok and Phuket and soon find other vices to drain any money that they get.

 

All night partying, drinking until out of control, gambling and drugs to mention just a few.

 

The salute should go out to those who choose not to go down this route and work near their homes in menial jobs to keep themselves above water.

Fairly obvious how you have spent your time in Thailand, creating a blinkered view with everything under the same umbrella, completely ignoring what was said.

The OP is about temporary relationships, dating apps in a nutshell, but according to you they are only "prostitution apps" in Thailand. That falang mentality again.

Prostitutes date back centuries but it was the western prudes that attached a stigma. In biblical times goods were often used in payment for sexual favours, not much different to the ways in many countries.

[Scouse123]

13 minutes ago, sandyf said:

Fairly obvious how you have spent your time in Thailand, creating a blinkered view with everything under the same umbrella, completely ignoring what was said.

The OP is about temporary relationships, dating apps in a nutshell, but according to you they are only "prostitution apps" in Thailand. That falang mentality again.

Prostitutes date back centuries but it was the western prudes that attached a stigma. In biblical times goods were often used in payment for sexual favours, not much different to the ways in many countries.

 

 

You are talking a lot but not saying much.

 

Payment for goods and valuables by sexual services is the definition of prostitution.

 

A temporary relationship?

 

You mean like the bigoted way ISIS and Muslim fighters got married ' for the night '  and divorced the day after, so they could bypass the laws on not having sex outside marriage!

 

Ridiculous, just call it what it is, no shame in it, unless you want to see it that way, but don't try putting lipstick on as pig.

 

 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Scouse123

[john donson]

if you marry a prostitute, it is a long rental anyway

 

she is not yours, it is only your turn

[brewsterbudgen]

2 hours ago, john donson said:

if you marry a prostitute, it is a long rental anyway

 

she is not yours, it is only your turn

Duh! Obviously if she is still working as a prostitute!