Artfully worded report there
[QUOTE=Explorer8939;3005103][URL]https://thepattayanews.com/2025/05/22/pattaya-police-plan-to-stomp-out-beachfront-prostitution-over-50-people-arrested/[/URL]
You lose 64 points if you debate whether prostitution is legal in Thailand. The actual status is: if the police want to arrest someone for prostitution, they can invoke any number of related charges, such as disturbing the peace. The end result is the same as arresting for prostitution.
The issue is whether the police really want to end prostitution on Beach Road, or whether they are doing a show.
At any rate, I suspect the freelancers on Second Road are unaffected.[/QUOTE]That report is a masterpiece example of how to suggest there is actually a law against prostitution between consenting adults in Thailand by dragging in all the usual "soliciting openly and shamefully", "creating a public nuisance" and "tarnishing the reputation of" blah blah blah qualifiers they can think of to suggest such a thing when there simply is no such a law on the books, nor will there ever be.
I suppose it must fool some of the less detail-oriented readers out there.
No debate here. I agree with the Thai Penal Code and you disagree with it. LOL
[QUOTE=Explorer8939;3005468]We really don't want want a debate on this issue.
Bottom line: the Pattaya police can arrest prostitutes under whatever charge they want. The result is the same.[/QUOTE]No it isn't the same. An arrest or conviction for disturbing the peace / causing a public nuisance, which is a crime cited in the Thai Penal Code, is not the same as an arrest or conviction for prostitution, which is not a crime cited in the Thai Penal Code. For one thing, someone CAN be convicted of the former but not for the latter in Thailand unless they change the law.
The girls here don't look very attractive
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOAg46ZW-0[/URL]
Who's actually going to this joint?
There's prostitution in Pattaya? You don't say
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvg5fs_AWoI[/URL]
What's the point of these so called raids, kinda weird. I know for me, when I think of Pattaya, just one thing springs to mind. And it'd be the only reason for me to go there.
Props and boos for that video
[QUOTE=NewtonYork;3005639][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvg5fs_AWoI[/URL]
What's the point of these so called raids, kinda weird. I know for me, when I think of Pattaya, just one thing springs to mind. And it'd be the only reason for me to go there.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=NewtonYork;3005639]
[B]There's prostitution in Pattaya? You don't say[/b] [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvg5fs_AWoI[/URL]
What's the point of these so called raids, kinda weird. I know for me, when I think of Pattaya, just one thing springs to mind. And it'd be the only reason for me to go there.[/QUOTE]Props to the hosts of that video for being a bit more detail-oriented than other media reports about the recent Beach Road sweep only sweeping up the female and ladyboy prostitutes in order to reduce the "open and shameful" solicitation of prostitution, which is the only prostitution-related crime the police can enforce in this case. Or perhaps there was an improper visa issue or two among those 50 arrests or sweeps. And that none of their potential customers observed in the "open and shameful" act of soliciting prostitution were arrested, rounded up, charged with or fined for anything at all.
That is an important detail for punters reading this website to know and to clearly understand the reasons for it.
However, boo to them for blithely repeating the popular misunderstanding that prostitution is "illegal" in Thailand. It is not.
And that is why prostitutes plying their trade in the quieter side sois and less open to the public areas than heavy tourist traffic Beach Road and only on the beach side of it at that were not arrested, rounded up and fined for anything, something the hosts wonder about but naturally have no explanation for as long as they are laboring under the misunderstanding that the basic act of prostitution is "illegal" in Thailand.
The simple reason for which is that if prostitution is solicited, negotiated for and engaged in discretely between or among consenting adults there is no Thai crime for which the police can observe, approach, sting, arrest or fine anyone.
Cleaning up Beach Road is OK in my book
It would make sense that hookers get removed from the beach side of Beach Road because it is the most beautiful part of town for a night time couples or family stroll. By my same philosophy, the freelancers would remain un-hassled in all other parts of Pattaya. Totally removing the hookers from Pattaya would destroy the local hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, markets, malls, tourist shops, taxi / Grab / baht bus, etc) and have a major effect on thousands of poor families throughout Issan. I cannot imagine that Pattaya government would be foolish enough to do something like that (that level of stupidity is reserved for the Americans).