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12-16-19 12:06 #10891
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Most of us long time mongers have likely done girls under age accidentally especially at MPs, and ST hotels from a bar, merely because we did not suspect and think to check. However if Hotel desk checks her ID, could be a problem. I know I did a girl probably under age by accident who was a mother already, and only found out later. I certainly was aware off girls in bars non Thai or not quite the right age, but this has been largely stamped out by police raids.
Solo Hotel in Soi 2 once denied my girl who was age 19, as a room visitor (to stay the night). Yet I was able to check her in as a permanent guest and had booked a room for 2. How does that make any sense? Naturally I would not stay at such stupid Hotels.
My personal view is if a girl has a baby already and needs money to support her family, I don't see why she should not be allowed to work, her choice. Some girls and their children are under great hardship, without the government trying make things extra hard for them, and putting them into all sorts of categories.
The reality of Police Raids in bars and MPs, can be that the Police want to extract cash fines (bribes) from some of the hookers. However underage girls might be taken away to the Police Stations.
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12-16-19 09:45 #10890
Posts: 5923Originally Posted by Crocodilexp [View Original Post]
Same with the joke walk down Walking Street where the cops proudly announce there is "no evidence" of prostitution going on. I think the only busts they would or could make (according to Thai law) is on grounds that the bars ares established not for entertainment, the fine art of the dance, and drinking, but in order to live off the proceeds of girls exchanging sex for money.
If there is a consenting adult man or woman in Thailand who has been busted solely for one of them handing the other money for sex or asking to have sex for money without any of those other co-factors involved I have not read or heard of it.
Sure, the cops could bust anyone effectively for "prostitution" by claiming one of those co-factors was involved even if it wasn't.
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12-16-19 09:29 #10889
Posts: 1240Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
The reason most of us here haven't seen the specific section of Thailand Penal Code you're alluding to is that we never read one single word out of that book. It proves nothing. Unless you're a Thai lawyer, your opinion on Thai law isn't worth much. In addition, specific laws on the books matter less than what the authorities are cracking down on today.
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12-16-19 06:09 #10888
Posts: 5923Originally Posted by Goyo61 [View Original Post]
However, I have seen laws cited penalizing people for forcing someone to have sex for money, for coercing them unduly to do so, to engage in the exchange with someone under the age of 18 or in some other way unable to give their consent, for living off of THEIR income from working as a prostitute (as in a pimp or perhaps even setting up a bar or shop specifically intended to take a cut of the prostitutes' income) or for becoming a public nuisance while selling their services, as in gathering in large numbers, shouting out or waving down customers in an area not suitable for such behavior.
Whenever I have heard or read of busts "for prostitution" in Thailand it is invariably directly associated with one or more of those factors.
But an adult discretely consenting to have sex with other adults in exchange for money? I have yet to see that specific law on the books. Nor have I heard or read of arrests for either the service provider or the customers for it. Maybe I just missed it.
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12-16-19 05:55 #10887
Posts: 381Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
Banks generally charge for sending money out, just the fees vary. Receiving banks also have fees but you can either elect to pay them from your account or not. If you don't then the fee just comes off what has been sent, so you wouldn't notice it.
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12-16-19 03:12 #10886
Posts: 1751Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
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12-16-19 00:42 #10885
Posts: 285More likely.
Originally Posted by Goyo61 [View Original Post]
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12-15-19 17:19 #10884
Posts: 334Getting Busted.
So prostitution is illegal. Anyone get busted for it before. What they haul you off to jail and you pay a fine? Just trying to manage the risk if it happens.
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12-15-19 15:14 #10883
Posts: 120Legit Male Spa
Found this place called "Seoul Barber Shop" while getting some dry cleaning done. It's near Asoke Station a little off Sukhumvit on Soi 15.700 Baht got me a hair wash, foot scrub, back massage, manicure and pedicure, face massage, face mask and a straight razor shave. The shave was not as good as Tew's in Siam but I was not disappointed as it was super close to my hotel. The ladies are cute but there is no happy business here, which was just fine by me.
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12-15-19 12:13 #10882
Posts: 6594Originally Posted by Kerrstar [View Original Post]
Your home bank should not be charging you money to transfer money, especially if your account has sufficient funds to handle withdrawals of $10-12 k per month.
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12-15-19 11:59 #10881
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Transferwise has multiple techniques of paying. Transfer firstly to TW account is the most cost effective. No credit fee or Eftpos fee.
Before I used a bank to transfer in my home currency, since their exchange rate was woeful, and Thai bank gave a better exchange rate. Overall I do better with TW, but possibly neither of those is best for transfer of a very small amount, and neither was instantaneous. Transfer to Bangkok Bank takes a day or 2.
For small money instantaneous I can use Western Union. I found a Thai video and groceries shop catering especially for Thais to use WesternU in home county that had a much lower xfer fee than normal. I would only go that path in emergency. Not totally convenient.
Bit Coin might be the answer eventually if buy and sell overheads can be low (I don't know what they are) since xfer is digital and instantaneous, and assumes bitcoin valu is reasonably stable (ha ha).
I have heard of companies with lower overhead than Transferwise, but also reports of them being unreliable.
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12-15-19 09:10 #10880
Posts: 381Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Currencyfair allow you in add a line in as a reference to show where the money is coming from.
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12-15-19 08:53 #10879
Posts: 381Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
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12-15-19 04:07 #10878
Posts: 5923Originally Posted by LittleBigMan [View Original Post]
In the previous ACH method, BofA only charged $3.00 USD for doing essentially the same thing TransferWise does (a 3-day domestic bank to bank transfer). But it was Bangkok Bank's New York branch that took another $5.00 USD out of it to deposit it into my Thai account as a "Foreign Transfer." My Thai account then took another 200 baht out of it, apparently to make the USD to THB exchange, not sure why else.
If TransferWise could figure out a way to flag and notify Thai banks that the money they deposit for us did indeed come from a foreign account and should be noted as such that would solve the issue and, BTW, greatly expand their retired expat customer market as well.
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12-15-19 04:00 #10877
Posts: 417Originally Posted by LittleBigMan [View Original Post]