Pattaya Reports

**Kibuu** · 05-26-25 19:18

Originally Posted by MohdirFan82 [View Original Post]

Dear experienced bar mongers, kindly elaborate what went wrong here? I am still wondering?

Wondering about complete senseless attitude of Thai bar staff is like wondering why rain is wet.

Never ever think just one second about it. Do exactly what you did, pay and go.

**SubCmdr** · 05-26-25 10:54

Along Walking Street you will not be able to take two steps before being offered to be escorted to one. I've never been. Not my thing. But my crew has!

Originally Posted by OrgasmDonor [View Original Post]

Do any shows like this exist in Pattaya? Years ago I saw a crazy show like this in Phuket.

Asking for a friend.

**Explorer8939** · 05-26-25 07:20

Originally Posted by OrgasmDonor [View Original Post]

Do any shows like this exist in Pattaya? Years ago I saw a crazy show like this in Phuket.

Asking for a friend.

I see people on Walking Street showing ads for a ping pong show. Never gone to one.

**Orgasm Donor** · 05-25-25 22:51

Do any shows like this exist in Pattaya? Years ago I saw a crazy show like this in Phuket.

Asking for a friend.

**HorseTrader** · 05-25-25 18:36

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).

**EihTooms** · 05-25-25 04:50

Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvg5fs_AWoI

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.

Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]

There's prostitution in Pattaya? You don't say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvg5fs_AWoI

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 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.

**EihTooms** · 05-25-25 04:01

Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]

The girls here don't look very attractive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOAg46ZW-0

Who's actually going to this joint?

I only skipped through the video but at 24:58 there is a line up of about 15 girls and I would say 2-3 of them look attractive in those particular shots.

**Explorer8939** · 05-25-25 03:27

Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOAg46ZW-0

Who's actually going to this joint?

I went to the Maggie Mays Resort before their formal opening, and reported here.

**Newton York** · 05-25-25 02:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvg5fs_AWoI

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.

**Newton York** · 05-25-25 02:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOAg46ZW-0

Who's actually going to this joint?

**EihTooms** · 05-24-25 20:12

Originally Posted by Explorer8939 [View Original Post]

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.

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.

**Explorer8939** · 05-24-25 03:40

Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]

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.

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.

**EihTooms** · 05-24-25 02:55

Originally Posted by Explorer8939 [View Original Post]

https://thepattayanews.com/2025/05/2...ople-arrested/

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.

Well, that depends on whether you would rather have a criminal record of being arrested, tried and convicted for Prostitution or for Disturbing The Peace.

Anybody here really think those outcomes are the same? How many would choose a conviction for Prostitution on your international record over Disturbing The Peace?

I don't think that report clearly states any male customers were arrested for Disturbing The Peace in that way, if anyone was actually arrested at all instead of simply rounded up for questioning and then fined for Disturbing The Peace, that is.

And, yes, you are absolutely correct that any prostitutes and customers conducting a discrete negotiation for the exchange of sex for money on the other side of Beach Road away from the crowds and all the public attention were not even noticed or approached by the police much less arrested for anything.

**EihTooms** · 05-23-25 12:59

Originally Posted by Explorer8939 [View Original Post]

https://thepattayanews.com/2025/05/2...ople-arrested/

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.

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.

**Explorer8939** · 05-22-25 05:11

https://thepattayanews.com/2025/05/2...ople-arrested/

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.