When foreigners think of Thailand they think of sex, say Thais

[holy cow cm]

34 minutes ago, wotaplonker said:

and !

Meaning state in general, but not with association!

[HHTel]

I'm sure it's already been said that the biggest users of the sex industry here are in fact Thais and by a huge majority.  Get rid of sex tourism and it won't cause more than a 'blip' in the industry.  After all it's been going on for around 600 years, long long before we arrived.

[balo]

Funny, when I  think about Thailand I think about trashy beaches and soi dogs.  Not sexy enough for me. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Destiny1990]

First associations in mine home country  when people think about Thailand its Thai food .My homecountry has hundreds of Thai restaurants and its food is always very popular.

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, pentap said:

What a surprise. Not!

It's bloody obvious why foreigners visit Thailand, especially males!

Let's face it, for decades, greed plus unenforced laws have helped to contribute to the sex industry within Thailand.

The finger should be pointed at Thais, not foreigners.

After all, it just takes the authorities to abolish the sex industry altogether.

Why do so many foreigners visit Thailand, for what? Temples ? Elephants etc. Boring. No! It's mainly because of the sex industry.

This report makes me laugh.

They created the industry and now they want escape goats to hide their creation.

After all, it just takes the authorities to abolish the sex industry altogether.

 

Seriously? As most prostitution in LOS is for Thais, NOT farangs, would they ever close that down?

BTW, have the authorities abolished the sex industry in YOUR country?

 

They created the industry and now they want escape goats to hide their creation.

LOL. It's been around for centuries, but you make it sound like it only started in 1970`.

[thaibeachlovers]

2 hours ago, MartinBangkok said:

My first impression of Thailand was back in Farangland in early 80's seeing this Bowie music video on TV:

Even though Bowiie shows several aspects of Thailand (Bangkok) the sexy working girls without doubt made the biggest impression on me. And after 8 years living in Thailand I would have to admit it's still the stand out factor.

More info about the video here:

 

 

Anyone know the gogo bar he was in? I don't recognise it. He must have had to pay a lot to be allowed to film in it as that was always a big no no in my times back in the day.

[cyberfarang]

2 hours ago, HHTel said:

I'm sure it's already been said that the biggest users of the sex industry here are in fact Thais and by a huge majority.  Get rid of sex tourism and it won't cause more than a 'blip' in the industry.  After all it's been going on for around 600 years, long long before we arrived.

I can`t agree with that.

 

Western tourists and sexpats probably pay much more then the local Thais using sex services in their areas. Sexual services regarding tourists and expats are no longer cheap in Thailand, in fact a lot of it can be compared with the prices for similar in the western countries. I have no doubts that a Thai male can visit one of the many small bars that seem to be everywhere where I live, and get a Thai girl takeaway for about 500 baht. The dek sideline girls that usually involve students and very pretty young girls, a westerner would have to use an escort service for the equivalent that costs thousands for short time. Look at Pattaya for example, the city thrives on westerner sexpats.

[rotorbreeze]

16 hours ago, Thechook said:

Prostitution is Thailand's major tourist drawcard.  The country has built it's reputation on sex.

Yes correct being a Resident for the last 9 times of a 6 month tours seen the illegal industry grow...  Transvestite entertaining is the draw to the every growing tour buses of Chinese plugging up the streets. Large Auditoriums build just for the draw sex for the visiting tourist from communist China. Many street vendors set up their mobile carts selling everything a tourist would want. So much demand on this entertainment another Auditorium is under constructed... end of Soi 30 off Nakula...

[Blackheart1916]

When I discuss Thailand with people in my home country (Australia), the people who have been to Thailand talk about may other things, not sex, yet the people who have never been here do.

[mettech]

I was in Germany in the 60's and sex business was good and legal onto them street so it was known and normal.

Frequent flyer them days.

[diehard60]

and just who is behind all the sex trade?

[oldhippy]

So the poll was about what Thais think that foreigners think?

Well.

I think that Thais think that..... etc.

Do you think that I think .....etc.

 

 

 

[kamahele]

Ok, but what do most foreigners think? 

[wakeupplease]

11 hours ago, Get Real said:

Another one that want´s to blame the thais

 

Another one that want´s to blame the thais

 

Do you do?

 

And the wast variation of things to see, or whay are you here? 53%

 

They simply just do not care. What would you do as an answer for your own country that you acually love very much?

 

Funny guy! Get back when you have an opinion

 

Probably got nothing to do with this

 

Do you live here? If so go to a better place!

Get Real I am struggling to understand what you are saying here, can you try again in English mate please

Thanks mate

[crocken]

Yes correct..THAILAND = SEX..

[Keesters]

22 hours ago, Minnie the Minx said:

Rigged poll. Obviously it is the shopping and the temples.

Or the clean beaches and fairly priced national parks

[tropico]

They should also ask Thais why they think that foreigners have that kind of perception! What make them think like that?

[Bill Miller]

The expression is "scape goats" if anyone cares. [emoji38]

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[Andrew Dwyer]

The expression is "scape goats" if anyone cares. [emoji38]

 

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Scapegoat is one word .

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat

[EnlightenedAtheist]

• Exhibit A

• Exhibit B

The documented history of prostitution in Thailand goes back at least six centuries, with overt and explicit references by the Chinese voyager Ma Huan (1433) and subsequently by European visitors (Van Neck, 1604; Gisbert Heeck, 1655 and others). It is certainly not a new phenomenon, though it may have been exacerbated by the Japanese occupation during World War II and by the extensive use of Thailand as a "Rest and Recreation" facility by US forces during the Second Indochina War (c. 1963 - 1973)^[20][21]

Thailand has an ancient, continuous tradition of legal texts, generally described under the heading of Dhammasattha literature (Thai pron., tam-ma-sat), wherein prostitution is variously defined and universally banned. The era of traditional legal texts came to an end in the early 20th century, but these earlier texts were significant in regard to both the writ and spirit of modern legislation.^[22]

In the twentieth century a variety of laws relating to the sex industry were passed, including the Contagious Diseases Prevention Act of 1908 and the Entertainment Places Act of 1966.^[18] Prostitution itself was made illegal in Thailand^[2] in 1960, when a law was passed under pressure from the United Nations.^[23] The government instituted a system of monitoring sex workers in order to prevent their mistreatment and to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.^[1] The 1960 law was repealed by the Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act, B.E. 2539 (1996)."

 

What a bunch of hypocrites, many from BKK ! They make foreigners look like depraved losers, exhibiting them in cities like Pattaya and such, while they hide their little side-businesses (that they sometimes indulge into a little more than they should), because --let's think about it --someone has to run these businesses and someone has to turn a blind eye. LOL To think that officers who are supposed to uphold the law would engage in CHILD prostitution is absolutely disgusting, but the truth is that it is allowed. Why are we surprised? Why are we allowing the same group to "crack the case'? Not to say that this happens just in Thailand, of course, but child prostitution is going surreal.

 

Still, I know that there are some very decent people in this country, but they have to strop being "decent". Of course, we know the apple is rotten all the way up. How high? I cannot say, 

 

Innocent question here: When they say that 25% of GDP is tourism/expat related, does that include these extra streams of revenues?

[EnlightenedAtheist]

7 hours ago, diehard60 said:

and just who is behind all the sex trade?

And who approves it, aided and abated by whom? Surely, they cannot claim they are all blind!

 

However, if all this were to shut down, the tourism industry and Thailand would take an incredible hit. A significant proportion of the 25% of the GDP would vanish.

[anotheruser]

5 hours ago, Keesters said:

Or the clean beaches and fairly priced national parks

Well for me it is the image of drinking terrible beer, served warm, with ice, out of a coffee cup on Buddha Day in Pattaya for a price that could be considered semi-cheap. Bonus points if you also conjured up the image of buying a round of lady drinks for a middle aged, over weight, woman who is a mother of 3 for drinking company. Where you from darlink?

[Blackheart1916]

2 hours ago, EnlightenedAtheist said:

• Exhibit A

• Exhibit B

The documented history of prostitution in Thailand goes back at least six centuries, with overt and explicit references by the Chinese voyager Ma Huan (1433) and subsequently by European visitors (Van Neck, 1604; Gisbert Heeck, 1655 and others). It is certainly not a new phenomenon, though it may have been exacerbated by the Japanese occupation during World War II and by the extensive use of Thailand as a "Rest and Recreation" facility by US forces during the Second Indochina War (c. 1963 - 1973)^[20][21]

Thailand has an ancient, continuous tradition of legal texts, generally described under the heading of Dhammasattha literature (Thai pron., tam-ma-sat), wherein prostitution is variously defined and universally banned. The era of traditional legal texts came to an end in the early 20th century, but these earlier texts were significant in regard to both the writ and spirit of modern legislation.^[22]

In the twentieth century a variety of laws relating to the sex industry were passed, including the Contagious Diseases Prevention Act of 1908 and the Entertainment Places Act of 1966.^[18] Prostitution itself was made illegal in Thailand^[2] in 1960, when a law was passed under pressure from the United Nations.^[23] The government instituted a system of monitoring sex workers in order to prevent their mistreatment and to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.^[1] The 1960 law was repealed by the Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act, B.E. 2539 (1996)."

 

What a bunch of hypocrites, many from BKK ! They make foreigners look like depraved losers, exhibiting them in cities like Pattaya and such, while they hide their little side-businesses (that they sometimes indulge into a little more than they should), because --let's think about it --someone has to run these businesses and someone has to turn a blind eye. LOL To think that officers who are supposed to uphold the law would engage in CHILD prostitution is absolutely disgusting, but the truth is that it is allowed. Why are we surprised? Why are we allowing the same group to "crack the case'? Not to say that this happens just in Thailand, of course, but child prostitution is going surreal.

 

Still, I know that there are some very decent people in this country, but they have to strop being "decent". Of course, we know the apple is rotten all the way up. How high? I cannot say, 

 

Innocent question here: When they say that 25% of GDP is tourism/expat related, does that include these extra streams of revenues?

I have only heard 7% to 10% of GDP for tourism.

[Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere]

Prostitutes at the temples and Lumphni Park? Shucks.. You can go to any 24 hour McDonald's and see the menu of prostitutes (Girls Waiting For Boyfriends) and get offered a juicey or not so juicey Lucie before you can reach McDonald's counter. 

[Blackheart1916]

Just now, Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere said:

Prostitutes at the temples and Lumphni Park? Shucks.. You can go to any 24 hour McDonald's and see the menu of prostitutes (Girls Waiting For Boyfriends) and get offered a juicey or not so juicey Lucie before you can reach McDonald's counter. 

And some are not so Lucy!!!

[anotheruser]

2 minutes ago, Blackheart1916 said:

I have only heard 7% to 10% of GDP for tourism.

 

I think I read in the tourism strain article one minister came up with some figure like one fifth of the Thai economy. These statistics tend to change substantially depending on the day and what point one is trying to prove at the time.

[Phuketboy]

I must have missed something.... there is no prostitution in Thailand and tourists come for the culture and beaches.  Just ask a particular tourist minister hahahaha.

 

[Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere]

There are No prostitutes in Thailand..If you dont believe me then just ask a prostitute if she is a prostitute. Get ready to be amused by her Amazing Thaigirl answer or a shoe to your head. WARNING Do it at your own risk! They often get offended, except for the really old girls who have finally accept the truth about themselves. 

[anotheruser]

Just now, Phuketboy said:

I must have missed something.... there is no prostitution in Thailand and tourists come for the culture and beaches.  Just ask a particular tourist minister hahahaha.

 

 

You are thinking of it the wrong way. Nobody pays them for sex it is the scintillating conversation and company. Sort of like the Geishas in Japan. Every hooker is a well versed conversationalist and artisan in their own right.

[pentap]

Every country has a reputation of sorts, Thailand is no different from any other country when it comes to that sort of thing.

It is a well known fact, the world over, that Thailand is a sex hub and probably the biggest in the world, with open corruption ranking as one of the worst places in the world!

As mentioned previously, foreigners being considered the cause of the sex industry makes me uneasy. Thailand is a place for easy sex, which has been manifested by the Thais and not by foreigners!

As always, money speaks loud here. Compassion, respect for one another including law and order is thin on the ground. Greed for money is what makes them tick and they will do what ever they can in order to obtaining it. So it's no wonder they have exploited the sex industry to the fullest until it has become what it is today. Seedy. Dangerous. Filthy. Unlawful and so on. T.I.T I'm sad to say.

Sodom and Gomorrah spring to mind!

Prostitution is illegal in Thailand and yet it is available very easily. It's everywhere. We all know !

Makes me angry to think that foreigners are being made to blame for the mess that they, foreigners, are not responsible for.

I read a report which stated that more Thai males are actively involved in prostitution, pimping, human sex slave trafficking and under aged sex, within Thailand, than that of foreigners.

Says it all as far as I'm concerned.




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