Wasn’t Pattaya’s sex industry, along with much of its economic development, shaped in the 1970s primarily to meet the needs of U.S. servicemen on R&R? And now the local authorities want to chase away the golden goose in another attempt to change the city’s public image. Of course, everyone there who makes a living from tourists coming to spend money will be grateful for the loose flow of U.S. dollars coming into the bars from those sailors, especially when much of the time it’s only tight-fisted rupees being spent there.
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