Sex tourism: Thai trade boosted by ‘repressed’ tourists in Pattaya

Journalism , Thailand May 15, 2016 2 Comments

In Pattaya’s Arab quarter, off the Thai sex capital’s famous Walking Street, a Kuwaiti man climbed down from the bar where he had been dancing for ten minutes and rejoined his friends at their table.

They were drinking Chivas Regal by the bottle and each was accompanied by a Thai “date”. He immediately pulled his companion onto his lap.

When asked why so many young Middle Eastern men chose Pattaya for their overseas vacations, Fahad, 29, grabbed his crotch with both hands, shook vigorously, and laughed.

“Thailand is very different to Kuwait,” he said.
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Ask most people what sex tourism looks like and they would likely describe an aging white man and probably use the word “dirty” for good measure.

The reality is more complicated, defying generalisations.

Read the full article at ABC News.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

2 Comments

  1. Dr. Craig Wheway

    Hi Matthew, great article but I think you need to correct the figure provided about ‘the average income of people in Isan as $530 a year’. Firstly we often hear of African families living on a dollar a day which is considered pretty extreme poverty, so how the figure of $530 can be applied to an upper-middle income country such as Thailand with over $5,600 GDP per head of population is beyond me!

    The figure you provide would be more like the monthly income of an isan household (around 20,000 Thai baht per month). Even so, electricity here for running air-conditioning makes paying basic utility bills difficult and poorer families struggle to obtain loans unlike government workers who are allowed to borrow extensively and the responsibility of caring for elderly parents often falls to women rather than men. In addition, Thai households maybe taking care of extended families as well which bumps up the cost of maintaining a Thai household.

    But thanks for highlighting a new niche for sex tourism in Thailand

    • Matthew Clayfield

      Thanks so much. You’re almost certainly correct.

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