Laws on Prostitution in Thailand?
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cos_tfojfZM[/URL]
Just posting, as this topic comes up every so often.
Makes sense to me!
Yes, that Thai attorney and the Bangkok Post sum it up quite well.
[QUOTE=Mosquito2002;3012684][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cos_tfojfZM[/URL]
Just posting, as this topic comes up every so often.
Makes sense to me![/QUOTE]Thanks for that link.
With regard to prostitution in Thailsnd, "What consenting adults do behind closed doors is their own business" and not illegal or a crime.
That American-born then naturalized Thai citizen attorney nailed it and so did the Bangkok Post article that triggered his commentary on the topic.
Really, every reference and term he stated on the act of prostitution between consenting adults vs all the several tangential behaviors and "open and shameful" publicly observable flaunting of negotiations, peddling it without couching it behind the concept of "massage" or simply "meet ladies here" in licensed businesses, entertainment venues and so on are pretty much right there in the Thai Penal Code that has been linked and discussed here on this website many times.
Bottom Line: the act of prostitution between or among consenting adults is not illegal or a crime in Thailand.
Correction: It was the Pattaya Mail.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3012690][B]Yes, that Thai attorney and the Bangkok Post sum it up quite well.[/b]
Thanks for that link.
With regard to prostitution in Thailsnd, "What consenting adults do behind closed doors is their own business" and not illegal or a crime.
That American-born then naturalized Thai citizen attorney nailed it and so did the Bangkok Post article that triggered his commentary on the topic.
Really, every reference and term he stated on the act of prostitution between consenting adults vs all the several tangential behaviors and "open and shameful" publicly observable flaunting of negotiations, peddling it without couching it behind the concept of "massage" or simply "meet ladies here" in licensed businesses, entertainment venues and so on are pretty much right there in the Thai Penal Code that has been linked and discussed here on this website many times.[/QUOTE]I saw in a repeat viewing of the video that the article he was referring to was in the Pattaya Mail and not the Bangkok Post.
I was thrown because that attorney usually riffs on articles he has read in the Bangkok Post and there was a reference to the Bangkok Post in the comments.
However, it figures that the Bangkok Post would not be the media outlet to accurately make it crystal clear and without a reasonable doubt that the basic act of exchanging sex for money, aka prostitution, between consenting adults is not illegal in Thailand and therefore not a crime in Thailand. That only certain "prostitution-related" factors are illegal. And the attorney does a very good job of listing several of them, most of which have also been mentioned on this site many times.
Instead, time and time again the Bangkok Post has shown itself to be one of those lazy journalistic entities on this subject that hears about a group of girls being rounded up on Beach Road, calls the police station, asks the first person that picks up the phone why those girls were being rounded up, the call is transferred to the Thailand Public Relations Manager or similar, who then says, "for prostitution", and that's as far as the Bangkok Post's journalistic curiosity goes, end of report.