Phuket residents in uproar over nude photo of foreign woman

PHUKET: -- Phuket people were in a Facebook uproar after a local resident uploaded a photo of a foreign woman in two-piece lingerie posting for photos near a local temple Saturday morning.

The picture was posted at 10:30 am when the Facebook user spotted the photo taking in front of the Sino Portuguese Building, which is part of Phuket old town on Deebook Road in Phuket’s Muang district. The picture was widely shared by other Phuket Facebook users.

The person, who posted the photo, asked others to comment whether it was appropriate for a woman to post for photos in underwear there because the spot is only 70 meters away from the Mongkol Nimitr Temple, which is also under the royal patronage.

Many Facebook users criticized the photo session as being inappropriate. Shortly after the photo went viral, the Facebook user posted a follow-up message, saying Phuket police had been to the scene to stop the photo session. The group was served just a warning and released without facing legal action, the Facebook user said.

Thai Rath Online said it dispatched a local reporter to the scene immediately but the reporter did not find the woman there. The reporter learned from the local people that the woman might be an Asian.

The local people said it was inappropriate for a woman in underwear to post for photos in public place, especially near a temple. They said they used to see only pre-wedding or fashion photo taking in the old town section of Phuket but have never seen anyone posting for photos with just underwear on.

I think uproar might be a slight exaggeration

Just toooo difficult to judge---without viewing the photos---

Edited February 7, 201511 yr by digbat

But a spirit house/shrine in every hooker bar is appropriate...dam'n double standards

sounds like the reaction/uproar was xenophobic...... surprised?..... not.

Phuket....Thailand....*YAWN*

Much ado about nothing

Old fuddy duddies with nothing better to do that sit and complain about everything ... never happy

"The local people said it was inappropriate for a woman in underwear to post for photos in public place, especially near a temple."

So true. Can't have that western decadence infiltrating and poisoning our pious Buddhist communities.

On the other hand it's perfectly alright to have coyote dancers frolicking at temple fairs, where also alcohol is served, monks give out lucky lottery numbers (for a monetary "donation"), fortune tellers ply their dubious trade, people make "merit" by releasing birds from cages (in which they shouldn't have been held in the first place) and fish and turtles into polluted waterways - oh, and half of the peaceful worshippers probably carry concealed weapons.

Edited February 7, 201511 yr by Misterwhisper

Since when has been posing in underwear considered posing "nude"?

TV headline to attract attention to what is effectively a non-nudes non-news story?

I love the double standards in Thailand ...

They never cease to amaze me ..

Edited February 7, 201511 yr by Patje

We were all born naked. Get over it you silly people.

What would they have done if she put a goldfish up her fanny?

What would they have done if she put a goldfish up her fanny?

Trow her a ping pong ball ?

did someone have to hunt the internet for this picture to be outraged ?

The headline says "nude", then the text says "two piece lingerie", then it says she was 70 meters away from a temple (which might be anywhere in any Thai town or bigger city)...

And what is a facebook uproar?

The part that really killed me said.."the woman might be an Asian".

Even a good fiction writer couldn't come up with this. Maybe if they had an English vocabulary they would know someone else already thought of sensationalism.

There are at least two temples in about 500m radius of Pat Pong.

I know that woman, and i still have the fish.

Wait a moment: This is the same self-righteous Phuket which includes Patpong?

I wonder do they think it is an insult to Buddhism,when a bar girl starts her 5 oclock shift,prays at the shrine in the bar,then continues with her dirty deeds? This has been a conversation between farangs at bars for many years,so i dont understand the uproar about the nude photo.

I wonder do they think it is an insult to Buddhism,when a bar girl starts her 5 oclock shift,prays to the shrine,then gets on with her dirty deeds?

By "dirty deeds" are you referring to the possibility of having sex? Most adults whether Buddists or not have sex, a perfectly normal human activity, is that an insult to Buddism also in your little mind? What's the difference between a girl who works in a bar and anyone else that doesn't doing dirty deeds?

But a spirit house/shrine in every hooker bar is appropriate...dam'n double standards

Only if you think a shrine in a bar (or anywhere else for that matter) is the same as temple.

There are at least two temples in about 500m radius of Pat Pong.

So what? The only thing on public display in Patpong is a market.

Wait a moment: This is the same self-righteous Phuket which includes Patpong?

If you ignore the several hundred kilometers distance between the two, yes, the very same.

I wonder do they think it is an insult to Buddhism,when a bar girl starts her 5 oclock shift,prays to the shrine,then gets on with her dirty deeds?

By "dirty deeds" are you referring to the possibility of having sex? Most adults whether Buddists or not have sex, a perfectly normal human activity, is that an insult to Buddism also in your little mind? What's the difference between a girl who works in a bar and anyone else that doesn't doing dirty deeds?mr,geez,its immoral,tell me what faith promotes prostitution?

Wait a moment: This is the same self-righteous Phuket which includes Patpong?

If you ignore the several hundred kilometers distance between the two, yes, the very same.

Correction: Patong

"The local people said it was inappropriate for a woman in underwear to post for photos in public place, especially near a temple."

So true. Can't have that western decadence infiltrating and poisoning our pious Buddhist communities.

'Thai Rath Online said it dispatched a local reporter to the scene immediately but the reporter did not find the woman there. The reporter learned from the local people that the woman might be an Asian.'

What would they have done if she put a goldfish up her fanny?

Probably mash it up and have nam Prick up her fanny too...

But it is ok for a Thai man to walk around anywhere with only a towel around him.

No nudes is good news.

A hundred years ago it was common for Thai women to go around topless...seems strange now to see it is inappropriate. Anyway, this whole story stinks of being made up, think about it, who would have been looking at a particular, unnamed, Facebook page, So far, with so many mobile phones around, not one local rag has posted a photo.